{"id":10640,"date":"2015-10-09T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=10640"},"modified":"2015-10-09T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:00:11","slug":"a-busy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/09\/a-busy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shadow<\/a>
Shadow is now a climbing frame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been a busy day for the puppies. First of all they had a phone call from the Kennel Club saying all their names are fine and have been registered. That led to much excitement. It was explained that they didn\u2019t have five full generations of their father\u2019s family on their records so they won\u2019t show on their certificates. It\u2019s a shame because our Mistress could tell them many many generations but they won\u2019t accept that. They do now have five generations on their mother\u2019s side because she of course was born here too.<\/p>\n

The heat pad has been removed from the pen they have been sleeping in. Our Mistress had observed they weren\u2019t really using it anymore and then the last straw was one of them deliberately walking over to pee on it. When I say walking that is a bit of an exaggeration but you get the picture. Our Mistress has suspected the behaviour before it happened thanks to the smell of warm pee!<\/p>\n

Also this morning the girls were playing just a tiny bit for the first time. It was either that or fighting. Della and Dixie were mouthing each other as puppies, and in fact older dogs, tend to do. On the other paw D\u2019Artagnan was not happy about today\u2019s feeding arrangements and cried for an hour solid in an attempt to wear our Mistress down. She did the only sensible thing and turned the baby monitor off! Oh she went to check on him to make sure he was ok, but she didn\u2019t give in. She doesn\u2019t want him either getting too fat or growing too quickly. It\u2019s in his own interests, he just doesn\u2019t see it that way!<\/p>\n

Now that they don\u2019t need the heat pad they will spend more time in the main whelping box rather than the smaller pen they were sleeping in. Normally if Shadow had been prepared to stay in with them they would have been in the whelping box all along. It will give them more space to move around in now they are getting bigger and moving around a little more. They will just go into the little pen when our Mistress is cleaning the whelping box out.<\/p>\n

Today’s rather more lively video is HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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