Day 7- 1 Week photoshoot, 4/19

The puppies have reached one full week of life!

They still haven't opened their eyes, but they are starting to look like they might "wake up" soon.

The kids were able to help me cuddle puppies today. Butter also spent some time outside playing with the neighborhood kids, and she joined us at suppertime under the table, like before.

Gingersnap did a tiny little "bark bark bark!" in his sleep today! They're still just making squeaky noises when they're awake, but it was absolutely adorable!

Butter received her monthly flea/tick treatment today. We live in a heavily infested area, so I had to do some research when the vet initially said there was no safe treatment for pregnant or nursing dogs. The dog breeding community on Facebook pointed me towards Revolution. I asked my very and she agreed that it was safe, and a better choice than going unprotected in this area. Obviously, the puppies are too young to be treated themselves but we're providing them with herd immunity by keeping the cats and Butter protected.

We only did 3/5 of the ENS positions today, because Butter had enough of people messing with her pups and was showing signs of stress. She did so good letting the kids handle the puppies during the day, but by evening she was done.

Today's weigh-ins:

Day 6 - Puppy name reveal 4/18

Short update today.

Snickerdoodle tends to climb on top of the other puppies.

Butter has started to get more comfortable with the kids being around her and the pups.

And we performed ENS as scheduled.

Today's weigh-ins:

Day 5 - New digs, 4/17

I moved the puppies into a hard-sided kiddie pool, so I could do a better job of keeping it clean. It took Butter a while to be okay with this.

I felt foolish because I had left the original whelping pen in my room for weeks for her to get used to it. And this I just set up for her in a day. To me it looks basically the same, but it sure smells different!

At first Butter would go in, smell around, then come back out and sit in my lap. When I sat inside the pool myself, that seemed to clear up the confusion.

Even though the move stressed Butter out a little, the puppies seemed perfectly fine, so we went ahead with ENS as planned.

A couple puppies seemed a little too distressed in a couple of positions, so we discontinued those and will try them again tomorrow. ENS is meant to introduce only teeny weeny amounts of stress to them.

He's a sample of what they do all day. There's nothing wrong with the sound. It was just very quiet.

Today's weigh in: