Puppies Start Eating Food!

Colby and the puppies he snuck into bed to take a "nap".

He loves these puppies so much!
Chow time!!!

This week we started the puppies having a meal once a day made up of milk replacer and dog food that was mashed up for easy chewing.........I think the technical term is "gruel" but I'm not a technical person! They did so well eating and have really grown!

I have posted some pictures of Colby with the puppies. One is taken with two puppies and Colby in the bed. He snuck them into the bedroom for a "nap" the other day and I had to capture the cute moment!

On a rather sad note, we lost one of the puppies today. It was one of the smaller ones. Yesterday it was fine, but when we went out to check them this afternoon it had passed away. It broke my heart, but I have to focus on the other beautiful nine puppies we have to take care of!

Cute Pictures

I took a couple of cute pictures today of the puppies! It's hard to get a whole group shot, but I tried...........enjoy!

Puppy Update

Today we had to make a big decision with two of the puppies. They were not gaining weight as well as the other eight and Jeremy noticed today that Mama wasn't having much to do with the two runts. We went to visit the vet and he suggested starting them on milk replacer. We are now feeding the two puppies every three hours to help them grow appropriately. This is going to be a challenge, but we want our puppies to do well!

All Is Well

The puppies now have thier eyes open and everyone's tail has healed up nicely. They are doing very well and growing like weeds!