day 10

Today was a very eventful day for the puppies!  We appear to have purchased nearly all of the puppy milk replacement powder in town, and these guys are only 10 days old!  We have several more weeks of nursing time ahead of us.  Fortunately our friends at Animal House are expecting more in tomorrow.  The costs on this stuff are mounting pretty quickly.  If anyone is interested in helping out by purchasing some powdered Esbilac Puppy Milk Replacement or 20 ml syringes to use as bottles Animal House will set it aside for us, just order it over the phone and tell them it is for Judith's orphan puppies.  You can see more about Animal House here:  Animal House (775) 751-1777


This morning we started to see eyes opening on several of the puppies.  You can't quite see it in the pictures, but this one was too cute not to share!

I am happy to report that their bladders are all working well.  When they are very young they cannot pee on their own, we had to tickle their bellies to stimulate urination.  (That is why I have been smelling like puppy pee, in a case anyone was wondering.)  Today they are definitely able to pee on their own.  While this is a good sign physiologically, it does present some housekeeping issues.  Afternoon feeding time found the puppies all wet as they lay in their pile, so they got a bath before we fed them.

Their strong suction ability makes a good life preserver while they are in the bath!




The other fabulous development is that their spots are coming in.  This morning we saw one puppy with grey freckles on her ears and another with little spots on his feet.  By the afternoon feeding nearly all of them showed spots!

You can see the grey bits really well when they are wet from the bath.  Tomorrow should be a whole new puppy adventure, so stay tuned!