Update on Pups/Weights

This was taking this afternoon after 32 hours since their debut.

As you can see, Fiona has been cleaned up. She has her hair in ponytails everywhere to keep the hair off the babies. She no longer has that bloody or green tinge. Mom has a bloody discharge that can usually last up to 2 weeks and that has to be cleaned up whenever you notice.

I completely line comb her daily and then put the ponytails back in but looking for a way to avoid that when Yvonne comes in to watch them next week. I know - maybe just say - let the hair go to hay. It grows back. heh.

Fiona is a mom who just won't leave them alone. They peep - she's in there and she rarely gets out except to drink or nibble.

But because of this, she has a couple of hickeys on her mammary glands that we are catching early and watching how pups grasp on. I never saw a crew so solid on their latching on right from the start.

Good news. All pups - and I checked twice and even put something else in the scale to see if the scale was broken are 7 ounces. That's up from 3 pups at 5 ounces and 1 at 6 ounces. A couple of them lost an ounce at different times - the sable and the cream/gold but they soon made up for it. This is normal but you still worry. Ask Nathan - he worries the most. :-)

Mom doesn't appear to have milk but we think it's due to them sucking her dry. Their little tails are going back and forth as they usually do when they are getting filled up from a feeding and they are not crying except when they are squirming their way to mom.

The pups are doing well. I may even name them and let them get new names. Ideas..send them my way.