Pups: Day 50-56

WEEK 8

By this age, your puppy can remember which behaviors he is allowed and where and when he is fed. He can even begin house-training and start becoming used to being groomed. He is ready to leave his mother and littermates to go home with you, fully capable of taking his place in the family.

7 weeks old!

1 week to go.
They should be fully weaned but they aren't.
They are getting there.
When awake, they need to be fully supervised.
They are into 'group destruction'.
Eating the bottom of chairs, floor board, their wee pads.

April 6 Day 50
12:30 AWAKE, NURSED (i would recommend replacement milk at home alone)
1:00 ASLEEP
4:30 AWAKE, NURSED
4:45am BREAKFAST - 5 cups for all 9, Peanut Butter Kongs, play, poop
5:45am ASLEEP (2 hours)
7:45am AWAKE (1 hour)
8:45am ASLEEP (.5 hours)
9:15am AWAKE (.5 hours)
10:25am ASLEEP

6:00pm Fed
7:45pm ASLEEP (1.75 hours)
9:30pm AWAKE (.5 hours)
10:00pm ASLEEP (4 hours)

*Used Bitter Apple Spray on the floor boards to get them to stop chewing them!
*Allowed them into the living room - some were apprehensive. Maggie tried to encourage them.
*Willow is my little escape artist. Always figuring out how to escape the puzzle of baby gates and boxes between the kitchen and living room. I've ordered a gate for that entry way.
*Peyton was shy yet again at a showing. Hopefully the couple will still adopt her.
*Eating 3 meals a day until they are 8 weeks old, then moving to 2 meals a day...about 1/2 cup per meal per pup


April 7 Day 51
1:45am AWAKE, nursed, played
3:00am ASLEEP (2hours)
5:15am AWAKE, nursed, ate 4.5 cups, pooped (1.25 hours)
6:30am ASLEEP (1.5 hours)
8:00am AWAKE



*All chairs removed from kitchen - they were chewing the underside.
*I think this has been the roughest time of all. The 9 of them together = 3 unaltered , 1-year old males, who haven't been trained! They get into EVERYTHING, chew EVERYTHING and escape EVERTHING.
*They aren't sleeping through the night. All together, they move furniture! Middle of the night - puppy and barking fest.
*Sharp teeth - bite your toes.
*Sharp claws - rip skin.
*Puppy Stampede!
*Don't understand 'NO' or 'LEAVE IT'
*I'm tired. : (


April 8 Day 52
1:00am AWAKE
Nursed, Kong, Play, Wee, Cry, Escaping - Gate arrives today- Thank Goodness!!!

2:15am ASLEEP

Pups: Day 43 - 49

Thursday, April 2 (Day 46):

10pm - moved them into the kitchen
11pm - 2 am SLEEP (3 hours)
2am - 3 am AWAKE (1 hour)
3am - 5am SLEEP (2 hours)
5am - 630 am SLEEP (1.5 hours)


Friday, April 3 (Day 47):

6:00pm fed them
6:45pm Maggie nursed them
7:00pm asleep
7:30 had to wake them to move them
8:00 back in the kitchen, play, play, play
8:35 all 9 asleep (5.5 hours)


Saturday, April 4 (Day 48)
2am - woke up because of my dogs (Chance -food bloat)
- Maggie nursed them

6:15am - AWAKE
-puppies woke up on their own
- Maggie nursed them
- fed them 5 cups of food
- play, play, play
- poop on wee pad (still too cold out for me)
-play, play, play

7:45am - ASLEEP (1.5 hours)

9:15am - AWAKE (.75 hours)
-Maggie nursed them
-playtime again

10:00am - ASLEEP (1.5 hours)

11:30am - AWAKE
-Maggie nursed them
-play, play, play

NOON - Lunchtime!
-Neighbors 3 little girls are coming over (noon-130)
-They will feed them 5 cups (the puppies didn't eat it)
-They will give them plenty of socialization!
-Playing with intermittent naps

1:30pm - ASLEEP (1.5 hours)

3:00pm - AWAKE
-playing
-eating some of the lunch placed out for them
-Maggie nursed

3:30pm - ASLEEP (1.5 hours)

5:00pm - AWAKE
- I had to leave to take Chance to the hospital for food bloat.

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8:00pm AWAKE
-Fed them 5 cups of food with warm water on top
-play, poop

8:45pm
-Maggie nursed

9:00pm ASLEEP (2.5 hours)

11:30pm AWAKE (1.25 hours)
-played hard
-Socrates vomitted

12:40am ASLEEP


Weighed / Dewormed Today-April 4, 2009:
11# 4oz Socrates (red)
10# 2oz Rottie (Alaskan Malamute)
10# 0oz Malik (yellow)
9# 11.8oz Willow (white)
9# 8 oz Griffin / Harley (green)
9# 6.3oz Peyton (pink ribbon, black girl)
8# 10.5oz Phoenix (blue ribbon, black boy)
8# 0 oz Lizzie (pink ribbon, yellow girl)
7# 8oz Aspen (blue ribbon, yellow boy)

*Today, noticed some of their urine looked 'pink' or dark yellow. I am worried they are not drinking enough water. Apparently so is Maggie. She has been licking their privates, just like when they were days old. She must sense something is wrong or is smelling something.


Sunday, April 5 (Day 49)
Today is the day the puppies should be totally weaned from Mom. I talked to our vet. He said as long as Mom wants to nurse, allow her to do so. Let nature rule.

12:40am ASLEEP (~2 hours)

3:45am AWAKE (1 hour)
-Maggie nursed for 15 minutes
-They played for another 45 mintues

4:45am ASLEEP (1.75 hours)

6:30am AWAKE (1 hour)
-Maggie nursing
-Food: 5 cups dry for puppies
-play and poop

7:30am ASLEEP (1.25 hours)

8:45am AWAKE (.25 hours)
- Maggie nursed

9:00am ASLEEP (2.5 hours)

11:30am AWAKE (1 hour)
-Maggie nursed them
-Provided more dry food to them
-Poop, Pee, Play

12:30pm ASLEEP (2 hours)

2:30pm AWAKE (1 hour)

3:30pm ASLEEP

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3:30pm ASLEEP