Our weight chart is getting a bit big to post every day but here is it for this morning…
Note that Capella did not really gain in a 24-hour period.
This is not alarming — we are looking at trends and not a single day.
This morning I was able to weigh some of the puppies both immediately before they ate and immediately after. Capella was 1.84 before eating and 1.9 after; she had almost an ounce of milk in that feeding.
Capella
Sun gained the exact amount after a meal (.96 ounce)…
Sun
…and Heze‘s breakfast was 1.28 ounces. Interesting.
Heze
Yesterday was the removal of rear dewclaws — sad and hard (for me anyway). The vet came to our house, and used numbing agents to make it all less sad and hard. Suzanne was here to assist and shuttle puppies while Claire and I watched CNN — loudly. GEEZ — there are a lot of commercials! (I do not watch much TV).
Puppies nursed immediately after their little procedures. It all went as well as it could, and Dear Husband slept through the entire thing. FYI: We do not remove the functional front dewclaws.
WHEW — glad that is over.
Perseus was the only one with no rear dewclaws — good thing as he doesn’t really need an excuse to yell louder!
Perseus
Puppies do not like being restrained — even when nothing bad is happening — and they scream like they are being assaulted. This is a survival thing — consider what being caught/restrained would mean if they were in the wild, so to speak. Nothing good.
Two views of Orion — one of his pretty head…
…and a tummy shot, showing of that handy button…
This is Sirius…
Mirak…
All ten…
While the puppies are eating like champs, Claire is not. Dear Husband observed that watching me try to feed Claire reminds him of what we do with little kids: “Here comes the train! Open up the station…”
She is getting enough but only because I am finding a lot of things to be trains. For example, Animal Crackers with peanut butter were a big hit yesterday.
Claire still has to be hand fed — Cindy H. will be so proud because yesterday I hand fed SARDINES to Claire. GROSS. Today I am going to try pancakes — a Suzanne suggestion.
Two pics for special people — a tummy photo of Zaniah for Jennifer G.
And a Montana photo of Puppy Nova for Human Nova…
And with this photo of Lyra, I think I got all ten this morning!
Daisy’s temperature is holding steady — her waistline has not…
I remain in a bit of denial about this…
Have a fruitful day!
Evening Photos
Lots of Zooming today so just three pics to share at the end of a long day…
Claire and all ten
Heze