Chillin’ with the Chili Peppers !!!
What a difference a week makes!!! The Little Fiestas are growing like CRAZY!! They are doing GREAT at walking, jumping, hopping and wrestling around with each other! They are MUCH better at the growling and barking, and no more trilling!!! Even a pathetic little howl once in a while when someone gets lost!!!! They still seem to think it is some sort of spontaneous reaction that comes from someone else, however, and look around like ‘DID that come out of ME ???!!!
Another weekly toenail trim and first worming was this week’s events. The wormer apparently tastes good to them cause they don’t mind the banana-ish flavor. Don’t ask me HOW I know it tastes like bananas!!!! J Let’s just say I probably don’t have worms!! For that matter I probably will never get Rabies or Distemper either!!! Stuff occurs!!! J
Mini is getting a little bit sick of them now and has a tendency to lie outside the whelping box more and more. Feeding a DOZEN is a challenge, and she is starting to have a little trouble keeping up on the milk demands so I started supplementing them with puppy milk replacer. Let the snorkeling begin!!!!! They seem to love it and thank goodness Mini is happy to give them a tongue bath afterwards cause they are a mess!!!!
I have begun litter box training them which amazingly goes very, very well as long as you start young. They use it occasionally, mostly by accident, but they are getting the hang of it. The idea is that I am teaching them that they have a designated area where they must go potty so this will help you housebreak them when they come home to you. All you need to do is select WHERE the bathroom is going to be in YOUR yard and be sure to CARRY them to that spot the very first time you get home with them and that will help you get started on the right foot at your home.
Still no dermoid sinus’s so I’m hoping we are home free on that. I’m still diligently looking for faults I can tell you about, but alas all I’ve got is a few kinked tails - two girls and two boys – which makes them “pets”.
Enjoy the pictures!!! ALL is well!
What a difference a week makes!!! The Little Fiestas are growing like CRAZY!! They are doing GREAT at walking, jumping, hopping and wrestling around with each other! They are MUCH better at the growling and barking, and no more trilling!!! Even a pathetic little howl once in a while when someone gets lost!!!! They still seem to think it is some sort of spontaneous reaction that comes from someone else, however, and look around like ‘DID that come out of ME ???!!!
Another weekly toenail trim and first worming was this week’s events. The wormer apparently tastes good to them cause they don’t mind the banana-ish flavor. Don’t ask me HOW I know it tastes like bananas!!!! J Let’s just say I probably don’t have worms!! For that matter I probably will never get Rabies or Distemper either!!! Stuff occurs!!! J
Mini is getting a little bit sick of them now and has a tendency to lie outside the whelping box more and more. Feeding a DOZEN is a challenge, and she is starting to have a little trouble keeping up on the milk demands so I started supplementing them with puppy milk replacer. Let the snorkeling begin!!!!! They seem to love it and thank goodness Mini is happy to give them a tongue bath afterwards cause they are a mess!!!!
I have begun litter box training them which amazingly goes very, very well as long as you start young. They use it occasionally, mostly by accident, but they are getting the hang of it. The idea is that I am teaching them that they have a designated area where they must go potty so this will help you housebreak them when they come home to you. All you need to do is select WHERE the bathroom is going to be in YOUR yard and be sure to CARRY them to that spot the very first time you get home with them and that will help you get started on the right foot at your home.
Still no dermoid sinus’s so I’m hoping we are home free on that. I’m still diligently looking for faults I can tell you about, but alas all I’ve got is a few kinked tails - two girls and two boys – which makes them “pets”.
Enjoy the pictures!!! ALL is well!