The daily routines for a six-day-old puppy are limited to quite a few activities: Sleep, fight for a good seat at the milk bar, grab a nap, a small snack before the others discover that mom is back, a small nap and maybe a meal from a bottle, then sleep a little so you are ready for the next meal.
Although Fluffy spends most of her time in the puppy box, where she alternately grooms and feeds the puppies, with a litter of eleven puppies, there will always be someone standing in the back of the queue for the milk bar.
Based on observations of the puppies and the daily weighings, the puppies therefore receive a feed supplement in a feeding bottle.
If neither mother nor siblings are nearby, a friendly foot can easily be used as a replacement, it has almost the right size to rest your head on.
The first night of Fluffy’s new life as a mother is well over. She is still somewhat tired after yesterday’s hardships, but it does not affect the puppies who are groomed and cared for.
Despite this being Fluffy’s first litter, she goes to the task as an experienced bitch who has tried it before. Her care for each of the puppies is impressive and tireless. She exudes a fantastic calm that spreads to the puppies.
After giving birth to eleven puppies, nursed each individual and fed them. it’s time for a well deserved rest on the terrace.
An hour and a half after puppy number six had seen the light of day, Fluffy gave birth to two more puppies. A black bitch of 404 g and a yellow male of 393 g.
We could now count eight puppies, four of each sex, and were delighted that everything had gone smoothly.
After just over four hours, we were able to welcome another black bitch of 380 g and a black male of 391 g. At 3 pm, almost ten hours after the first puppy was born, puppy number eleven arrived. It was a nice little bitch of 367 g.
The fourth puppy is a yellow male of 445 g, numbers five and six are both black bitches weighing 380 g and 370 g.
They came into the world in about 10 min, approx. half an hour after number three.
Three quarters after the first puppy was born, two black males came with about 20 minutes in between. They weighed 440 g and 398 g, respectively.
The first puppy, a yellow bitch, was born at. 5:12 Saturday morning. She had a birth weight of 399 g.
Just to fire up general excitement: Fluffy stopped feeding today. We expect her to deliver in the next 36 hours.