Thursday, May 22, 2014

Meet the Puppies! 3 weeks old.



Not the greatest pictures (they don't come close to showing you their cuteness especially when they're pawing at each other) but we wanted to post a picture of each puppy.  I'll post them by birth order.

First up was yellow girl!  
She's the one with the cropped tail, the biggest of the girls.  Should have posted the tail but I didn't think about it.  Yellow is one of the most adventurous.  She's the only one trying to eat puppy food - she chomps on it & then spits it out.  She's also constantly trying to annoy the other puppies - pawing at them, pushing them over.  Very playful.

Next up was Blue Boy
Blue boy is by far the most vocal of all the dogs.  First to bark, and has been barking & growling ever since, with that cute little tail wagging.  Blue is the most photogenic of all of the pups & definitely the most adventurous.  He is the first to greet you when you come into their room.  Blue has rear dew claws that will need to be removed when he is fixed.  Blue is Theresa's favorite.
 


3rd : Black Boy!
Black's kind of quiet.  I always see him snuggling up with green.  He may be the smartest or he may have just got lucky, but he has been the only one to escape from our pen.  He was hanging out with his momma across the room pawing at her, wagging his tail and barking.  Little momma's boy.  All the boys are exactly the same weight at this time.

4th : Green girl.
Green is the underdog!  The runt of the litter.  She's very quiet, spends much of her time sleeping or snuggling with black.  Noticed her using her size to her advantage to feed lately though, sneaking in where the bigger dogs won't fit.  Still needs private feedings to keep her weight up but less so.

5th: Orange girl!
Orange is my favorite.  She loves belly rubs, never complains when being handled, will fall asleep in your arms.  You're lucky to see her eyes in this picture, because she's so fuzzy.  She looks like a muppet.  Super playful too, will paw at the other dogs then topple over.  lol

6th : pink girl!
Pink is the second smallest.  She's quiet, reserved, and cuddly.  She was the first to shake her leg when getting belly rubs.  A little lover, always needs to be nestled in between the others.

Finally is White boy.
White is nicknamed Beaker because he sounded like Beaker from the Muppets from the moment he was born.  Less so now, he's fairly vocal, kind of a bully for milk, and a lot of fun to tap his nose (he'll paw back at you everytime.)  He's usually off with blue.


We did our best to get a group picture, this is the best we could do!
Hope you enjoyed meeting the puppies!










Sunday, May 18, 2014

Update on Green!



I know I said weekly updates, but I got a bunch of requests looking for an update on green girl.
Green's still lagging, but is steadily gaining weight which is really good.  On the left is Blue, the biggest of the litter.  He's a little fatty who has started whining every time he nurses.  He's super cute though.

Biggest & smallest.  It's really kind of an unfair comparison since blue is such a beast though.  lol




Thursday, May 15, 2014

Two Weeks Old



Yellow's tail has healed beautifully though I wonder if she's stress eating because she has put on a LOT of weight.  In fact all of them, aside from green, have.  Blue boy is the biggest, at over two pounds, followed by the other two boys black & white.  Yellow's the biggest girl, followed by orange that seems to suck on anything in front of her & then pink who is just quietly reserved & then tiny little green.  Green will need an increase in one on one feedings but she's otherwise healthy.




the best part is that they're starting to open their eyes.



And they make the cutest squeaks!

yellow's tail has healed beautifully.  She's so sweet.


Cutting all their nails is kind of a pain.  This is orange girl.

One week - Vet Visit!

At one week old, our puppies were due for their first vet visit.  All of them were healthy, but we had two problems.  The green girl was underweight - the "runt" of the litter, and will need daily private feedings to get her weight up.  The Yellow girl had a blood clot in her tail that was infected, and she needed to have her tail docked as the clot made antibiotics an impossibility for success.  She had this problem when she was born - born with a somewhat perforated tail

Dr. Fagen & the staff at Big Creek were absolutely incredible.  They were loving, knowledgeable & professional.  We're so glad we made the switch to their vet clinic.

Puppies slept through their visit mostly

Our friend Dorothy fell in love with green girl


Looking like baby polar bears!

Arya was patient of the day!

Puppies! Born May 1st, 2014

We have two pure bred Samoyed Dogs - Aria & Loki.   We had no intention of mating them but nature certainly finds a way - and it just took one quick misstep from his owners!
Family photo!  Aria was still a puppy.

Theresa & I on our wedding day with our two Samoyeds Loki & Aria

On May 1, 2014, Aria had her litter.  The X-ray showed a likely 4-5 puppies, and were we ever surprised when we got 7!  All were born healthy & happy, except for a small problem with the tail on Yellow that will be described in a later post.  In total we had 4 girls, and 3 boys!  Here are some pictures of when they were born.

They weren't very cute when they were born.



but they got cute pretty darn quick.