{"id":10595,"date":"2015-10-03T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2015-10-03T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T08:00:21","slug":"saturday-3rd-october-2015-back-on-the-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/03\/saturday-3rd-october-2015-back-on-the-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 3rd October 2015 – back on the bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"01b5028d77ac692fad643f25c218c41dccc6571864\"<\/a>Well hello, I\u2019m home. Did you miss me? I\u2019ve been away for one week and the changes round here are amazing. When I left my mum was waddling around hardly able to move and no fun at all. Now she\u2019s back to being her spritely self and instead there are four roly-poly little things that are apparently my brother and sisters, but they don\u2019t want to play which makes me suspicious. I\u2019m used to brothers and sisters wanting to play. I suppose I was around at this stage in previous year\u2019s but I was much younger and don\u2019t really remember that much about it. Anyway, how\u2019ve you been?<\/p>\n

My week wasn\u2019t so bad. It\u2019s a great kennels and I love them all there, but there\u2019s no place like home. I don\u2019t suppose it was me you wanted to hear about though.<\/p>\n

Back on the bottle isn\u2019t either me or our Mistress you\u2019ll be pleased to know. It\u2019s the puppies. With her swish new puppy scales it makes it much easier four our Mistress to check on progress and as they all looked as though they were struggling to find enough food yesterday afternoon she decided to check and sure enough the two smallest had lost weight during the day. When they were offered a bottle, poor things ate so greedily that it was obvious how hungry they were. They all got offered a bottle at the next few feeds to supplement what they\u2019d had from Mum and before our Mistress knew it they were happy to sleep for an hour and a half between feeds and were happy contented pups. Our Mistress was staggered by the weight difference today. Duchess is now 955g, an increase of 115g on yesterday. D\u2019Artagnan is 940g an increase of 130g. Dixie is 880g, up 100g on the day and Della is not far behind. She is 850g an increase of 95g. The good thing was that on the last feed they turned the bottle down so it seems they got enough from Shadow on that meal. We\u2019ll see how the day goes. Duchess is at this stage the heaviest any puppy has been and is a full 10 days sooner in reaching that weight than I was, but then I was a problem child!<\/p>\n

They are getting their exciting new bedding today too. Well exciting for the girls. It\u2019s pink with paw prints on it, so I don\u2019t know what D\u2019Artagnan will think. I\u2019ll have to show you that later.<\/p>\n

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