Friday Flashback
It’s Friday Flashback again and as always it’s fun to see what the others got up to in the past. In 2009 Alfie was talking about one of our Club’s very first fun days
Best Day Ever
Wow, yesterday was simply the best day, from a dog perspective. Of the eleven dogs in the country seven of them were there. There were four boys and three girls and then another girl that’s an Australian Shepherd. We all played together and then did agility and I’m proud to say that I was doing rather well on the agility course. I quite surprised my Mistress by getting the hang of what I had to jump over and what I had to wiggle my way round. Shadow was pretty fed up as her paw was still suffering and she had to have the collar on for much of the day. It’s a bit difficult to go through an agility tunnel with a massive collar on your head.
Oh and this is from 2011 when Aristotle and his brothers and sisters were only 16 days old.
Exhausted
Shadow is exhausted. My Mistress is exhausted. We have reached the conclusion that Shadow has only really got just enough milk for the puppies and that they are feeding at more frequent intervals than you would expect at this stage because of it. Shadow doesn’t move when they start crying. She waves a paw and calls ‘Will someone else get that?’ My Mistress has to get up and prod Shadow into action, which means both of them are still having very sleepless nights. My Mistress is looking forward to moving them onto solids so that the problem diminishes. I just hope the transition is a smooth one. It will start next Monday.
We have been changing the newspaper and washing the vet-bed for the puppies twice a day. Until now that has easily contained the situation. Yesterday evening there was a lot of peeing. If that is a sign of things to come we need to change the bedding more often. It’s like having a baby and washing nappies. The alternative is disposable puppy pads but they end up in landfill and cost more. Which is better, the electricity to wash the vet-bed or puppy pads? Oh the dilemmas of parenthood. What Shadow is very good at is keeping the puppies clean. She is happy to wash each of them several times before she is satisfied they are clean. Today’s video shows morning ablutions.
Well that’s all for now. Have a great Friday
Love
Wilma
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