Hello 4 Weeks!
- Posted on 14th April 2013
- in Blossom (Daisy) 2013, Featured
- by jvfairbanks
Rowen getting her nails done
Our kindred spirit litter celebrate their one month birthday with puppy mush!
Daisy’s puppies are growing so rapidly that their food intake is coming close to being beyond Daisy milk production. She will become more reluctant to nurse and shorten time at the milk bar as the puppies will begin a gentle weaning. She is starting to nurse standing up, which means that she will also gradually cut the sessions shorter.
The pups have teeth coming in which also shorten time at the milk bar. This is all the natural way of things as the pups move from whelp to full grown doodles one day at a time. Still, after all the years it amazes me how in 8 short weeks the puppies develop into ready to leave the nest doodles and bound off to their forever homes!
During this time we will see the puppies opening up to the larger world, ready to explore and start to run. They are playing with toys and interacting not only with each other but with family members as well. And they are finding their voice, or rather, their bark.
They are getting stimulation following our system we have developed over the many years to produce wonderful doodles. We are blessed to have produced many puppies in the working therapy lines thanks to our lines and this process I think. They are getting lots of handling of the ears, face, paws in prepping for a future grooming. Their nails were done last night with face trimming coming tonight. The grooming follows with some special handling and loving.
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This next week as the wean continues (and the living room and kitchen are thoroughly explored) we will watch the puppies become less focused on mom and more focused on each other, playing their own invented games and embedded in the play with be a natural interaction which will gradually establish the pack order of the litter. At the end of this week we will introduce other doodles for the first time to help the healthy adjustment of the pups with other dogs. We also will introduce cats to the mix although not both at once. I am getting ahead of myself but like to share what is happening now and what is coming. It is really fun the next few weeks to watch the coats change and the personalities come through. Daisy is introducing play to them now and watches as they try out their bark that they are not talking back. Mom’s of all species take issue with talking back I think? 🙂
The puppies future family members hopefully are watching on their puppy cam. We installed a new camera that has both android and iphone apps for our live stream. Yes, we can now say, “Liberty Labradoodles has an app for that”. Hoping it works for our families but we have our old camera as a backup. We use a monitoring system on our phones so this was a wonderful addition to offer our families.
Jeff and I worked on the puppy play yard with a mad dash by Jeff to get the new lawn planted before rains come this week.I really hope we can have the new lawn just in time for the puppies to visit with their family members. They will have their other area outside, but we as always are working on redoing and updating our new to us old farm which we call Doodle Acres.
The pups future homes are busy pondering names (except one family that will come and visit at 6 weeks with their girls who have no idea they are finally getting a puppy until they visit). Evlon, the only boy of the group has been renamed Oscar.
Happy one month old birthday baby doodles! The next several weeks will have many steps towards socialization, exploration, and preparing to leave the nest. But for now, lets eat some meat mush!
Oscar, 4 Weeks will live in Washington:
Airess, 4 Weeks will live in California:
Rowen, 4 Weeks will live in Oregon:
