Pupdate

 4 Weeks old and really starting to blossom. They had their 1st visit to the hairdressers (me) so are all looking much more like poodles now :)  Yesterday saw them experience the great outdoors for the first time. 

3 weeks old

 The puppies are progressing beautifully, at 3 weeks old they are very content babies especially now that they have started on solid food (raw meat).  Florin doesn't spend a huge amount of time with them now but there are still occasions when she chooses to just lie down and relax with them, mostly it's down to basic care, a quick feed and clean and then off to do something more interesting. Interesting has recently included chewing 2 pairs of my glasses up, something that in her 7 years she has never done anything like before! I'm hoping it's just hormones and a one off. 

The web cam runs every day, the start time varies according to how my morning goes but it is generally on before noon and until at least 10pm. It should be more engaging now as the pups have a larger area available to them and they are starting toi interact with each other more. Please bear in mind that although I am about all day to check on the puppies I'm not sitting with them 24/7 so sometimes the pen will not be perfectly clean as there is a lot of pee and poo at this stage :) 

Webcam

 Thanks to a good friend, with far more computer know how and patience than I possess,  the webcam is up and running. It should be live between about 10/11am every morning until 9/10pm. Here's the link for today or click the puppy cam link to the right of this page. https://www.youtube.com/live/9NKrFqjJ1HE?si=2FpDcNu3KrsGt8-n

Picture just because :) 

Puppies :)

 It's been a long 48hrs for Florin and myself, she started 1st stage labour Sunday evening and her puppies started to arrive at 4:30 am today. She has 5 perfect puppies, 1 white girl, 1 blue girl, 2 blue boys and 1 white boy all of which are strong and all have fed well. Unfortunately this is not enough puppies to please everyone on my waiting list so I will be going through details in the next 24hrs. For those who have missed out this time I can give you details of a friend who is mating her stunning blue girl (Cash baby), who has been shown very successfully over the last couple of years, to a superb white dog. These are just a few quick pictures as I've had just 4 hrs sleep since Sunday and also I don't like to interfere too much with new families. I also have to apologise as I am having technical issues getting the web cam up and running. Unless I can find someone to help me sort it I won't be able to get it going which will be such a shame as I love that people can normally follow th epups progress so closely with it.