We managed to move the puppies to 3 hourly feeds yesterday. It does mean they bottle feed for longer each time but it is progress. However overnight it did not work out that way – they had been fed at 9 but wanted more when my Mistress went to bed at 11. Then they woke again at 1. At 3 2 of them woke up, had a roam around and went back to sleep and they were all fed at 5am and again at 8. Tonight, whatever time the feed is my Mistress is going straight to bed so that her going into the room doesn’t disturb them. We also had to put the next slat of the whelping box back in as they were starting to climb out, which is never good news. It is lovely that Cuddles and Chekov still snuggle up together to sleep whenever they can. They look really cute together I must get my Mistress to take you a photo.
They are getting through so much formula now that my Mistress is having to make a fresh batch every day. Tomorrow she is going to make the new recipe and see whether they would like to start changing over to semi-solid food. Solid in this instance is a relative term and only goes as far as the baby rice element of a very thin gruel. They will try it out of a bun tin first, which is cute when they get the hang of it and are all standing at their own little bowl.
The other thing I should mention is that they will be cleaned out twice a day now as they seem to be peeing rather a lot!
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