Where has the time gone?

 

The puppies are now 6 weeks old and getting rapidly louder and poopier by the day 🤣

My days pass in a blur of cleaning, washing, mopping and grooming. Good job I enjoy all of those things, or I'd have been committed by now LOL

In a weeks time all of the pups and Edna will go to visit our wonderful vet, Mr McWhirter for health checks and microchipping, prior to them leaving for their new homes. I can't believe that this is happening already! Time really has moved so fast!

All but one puppy have lovely homes waiting for them and the one remaining girl has a video call with a family tomorrow. They seem very prepared for a puppy so fingers crossed that they will love her just as much as I do.

I am off work this week so have been able to find the time to groom both Edna and Peggy, so they are both looking, smelling and hopefully feeling, fantastic. 

I even managed to find the time to take Peggy on a training walk to the local aquarium at the garden centre, which she just loved.

I have not been able to get as many photographs of the puppies as I would usually due to time constraints but intend to do some portrait style images over the coming days and will share them here. There are however, plenty of videos in my private puppy owner's Facebook group for all of their families to see.

4 Weeks Old

The puppers are now 4 weeks old. 

They are very much up and about now; they are engaging in lots of noisy play, eating me out of house and home and singing to me at all hours! The cleaning is tremendous but I would not change a thing 😁

I think that I have learned to accept that there is no hiding from the fact that so many babies produce a lot of poo!

When I had the last litter, it was summer and people came to visit them in the garden and we had lemonade sitting under the umbrella. They all looked fluffy and perfect for weeks after a groom and my visitors were under the illusion of perfect fluffy poodles that never toiletted! 🤣

Now it is winter and I have a very large litter of pups all pooping and walking around in it and then climbing all over each other. They stay looking nice for about 10 minutes after a groom and then are sticky again.

I'm one of those people who can easily vacuum 10 times a day when I don't have puppies! I have had to learn to calm down with the cleaning, otherwise I'd never stop!

We have had the first lot of visitors come and see the pups, which has been lovely.

All but one little bitch puppy have lovely homes waiting for them (someone who wanted a girl fell in love with our available boy!) and to be honest I am very tempted to keep her! Watch this space! 

Just a pupdate

 

The pups are now 3 weeks old and doing fantastically. 

They are all around the 1kg mark, with the exception of Thumbelina who is about 600g.

The pups have their eyes open and can now hear.

They will easily drink 2 litres of milk daily and will soon have their first taste of raw food.

Today we have had our first visitors - Leigh-Anne and Tim from London and are having a little boy puppy. They were not meant to visit for another week but since they are already here and are holidaying very close by, I asked if they might like a sneak preview of the puppies and of course, I roped them into helping with a bottle feed whilst they were here.

Leigh-Anne also brought me some chocolate and a bunch of flowers, as well as a pig toy for Stanley (his favourite!)

Thank you to the both of you for such thoughtful gifts. Of course they were not expected but very much appreciated! 

Things here continue to be busy. Life passes us by in a blur - there are constant bottle feeds, bedding washes and cleaning to be done. It is very hard work keeping up with all of that, studying for an exam and maintaining contact with 13 families!

I will soon be back at work for a few hours each day also.

No rest for the wicked! 🤣

Anyway, here are a few pictures of my perfect little puppachinos. I fall in love with them more and more each day.