Pups At One Week!!

Look at that gaggle of pups! Can you believe how much they've grown? And their colors are really changing fast!

Puppy weights at 9 days, everyone is over the two pounds mark--even Bess and Belli! Actually, Belli has been eating so much she's almost as big as Boomer...

Baker: 2 lbs 9 oz

Blaze: 2 lbs 6 oz

Brownie: 2 lbs 6 oz (tied with Blaze!)

Boomer: 2 lbs 1.5 oz

Belli (The Ravenous): 2 lbs 1.1 oz

Bess: 2 lbs .4 oz

Things are about to change even more for the pups. Below you can see the enclosure we've been using. It features the whelping box and the heat lamp, and x-pens to give Kyrie a sleeping area (with a soft mat to lie on) outside of the box, where she has her food and water. And that's all well and good...but the pups are about to open their eyes! They are already starting to try to walk! And then, all bets are off. :)

After the eyes are open and they've mastered their legs, these little roly-poly balls of fluff become escapists! And that means that we'll no longer be able to just put them in the warming box when we need to clean and disinfect their area. So we'll be expanding the puppy preserve by adding another box almost identical to the whelping box, called the weaning pen. Kyrie can switch to sleeping in there until the pups get big enough to crawl over the doorway between the two, and the pups can go in there while the first box is cleaned. :)

Anyhow...on to your weekly dose of cute! May I present...the Kyrie/Piston litter at one week!

Baker:

Baker and sister Bess:

The Ravenous Belli (always the last pup eating...she has really lived up to her name!):

Belli and brother Blaze:

Bess using her brother Brownie as a pillow:

Bess curling into a stretch!:

Bess and brother Blaze:

Blaze at one week!

Slightly out of focus, but still cute! Blaze in a yawn. Look out, he'll gum you to death!

I'd been calling these two the black-and-tans but actually we are pretty sure now that they are both black-and-silvers! Belli and Boomer.

Boomer again, with his beautiful dark color:

Boomer disgruntled because I won't stop taking pictures! Unlike green boy, he is not a ham for the camera!

Brownie at one week!

Brownie trying to walk...

Boomer, Bess, and Brownie in a cuddle puddle:

The Girls at one week! Belli and Bess.

A little blurry, but look how big they are now! It's an exciting time--eyes and ears will be opening soon. :) Thanks for checking out the photos, everyone--stay tuned for another update, probably around two weeks!