Gail delivered 6 pups on Sunday, 30-June. 5 females and a male. All doing well. Gail is not very happy about the puppy room temperature, but the above comfortable temperature is essential for the health of the pups.
Gail Whelps 6 Pups [3F/3M]
Jazz Pups at 5 Weeks
Happy, healthy, superb temperaments
Excavating work being done here and there is a new dirt pile just outside the kennel door
Still more good stuff to come from Wales
Jess, sired by a friend in Talybont, Wales, out of a dam from his friend in Tynant, Wales, arriving 10-July.
Evensong
Jazz’s 4 week-old puppies welcoming the evening cool after a long, hot day.
More puppy play. In the middle a caution to the mom (Jazz) and the head bitch (Meg) not to get into it over the pups. Jazz was understandably being protective of her pups but in a confrontation with Meg (who was claiming her right to me), Jazz would be the big loser. Best to keep them apart. [The panting is Meg next to me]
We’ve Moved House
Coming up on 4 weeks, it was time to move the pups to larger quarters that don’t require daily cleaning as we transition from mom’s milk to lamb’s milk and kibble. Mom won’t clean up after them once they have eaten foreign food. And wood shavings are very forgiving.
Jazz Pups at 3 Weeks
The pups are getting inquisitive and cute.
Coming in July 10th from Wales…
Mirk, from a friend in Talybont, Wales.
Coming in July 10th from Scotland…
Jazz’s Pups Will Be 3 Weeks 10-Jun
3 Jazz x Max pups (2F/1M) left the whelping area in the house and are now in the puppy room of the barn looking very healthy as they come up to their 3-week birthday. Glad to have my house back! Here for another 3 weeks before going to the large group kennel, making way for Gail and her pups.
Puppies are fully mobile now, walking not crawling, playing with one another, eyes and ears both open, those sense continuing to develop over the coming weeks. One female is larger and more assertive than the other two pups.
Puppies Opening Their Eyes
Jazz’s puppies will be 2 weeks old on Monday 3-June. This weekend, they are opening their eyes (and ears) for the first time. If you look carefully in the video, the first puppy (also the first one whelped) has her eyes open (hard to see with the black mask) at 11 days.
The puppies still mostly sleep and eat, but they will start to be animated over the next week as explore one another and their surroundings with their new senses. The 2-week no-care honeymoon is just about over for me.
In another week, they will start to be walking and truly mobile. At 4 weeks they leave the house and go out to the barn.
