{"id":7120,"date":"2012-12-15T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T00:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2024-04-10T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:27:33","slug":"saturday-15th-december-2012-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/12\/15\/saturday-15th-december-2012-some-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 15th December 2012 – Some Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shadow does not have mastitis, it is just that her milk has come back so strongly that she now has so much that she is hurting. You\u2019d think there was an easy answer to that and she could just let the pups suckle, but sadly you\u2019d be wrong. She absolutely refuses to get in with them, so if we don\u2019t do something she is at risk of mastitis. You can\u2019t win! Anyway we sat her on the settee with two of us making sure she didn\u2019t move and then took a puppy at a time to her. She didn\u2019t want to cooperate but even she had to admit she felt a little easier afterwards. The problem is that that got feeds out of the times we had scheduled, which meant that things didn\u2019t work out neatly for bedtime. We also need to get her to feed them more regularly. We\u2019d like her to go in after every meal until Sunday and then every other meal. As much to help her to stop her milk production slowly as to help wean the puppies.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Aristotle checks his brothers and sisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In the meantime we are moving the puppies up to a mix which includes some baby food in their porridge. We have found some new food without any of the toxic things in it. However, we have already found that the puppies do not like potato and parsnip! They are fussy little things. I said I\u2019d happily eat it, but I wasn\u2019t given the option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve put the water trough in the pen for the first time now too. So that they always have fresh water. Because they are still very young and can fall asleep half way through eating and drinking the trough is actually a hen feeder that there is no risk of little puppy heads falling into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are as happy to sleep away from the whelping box now, which is good news as it means they are on camera more often. They\u2019ve been playing with their toys more too. We\u2019ve at last finished removing the last of the squeakers so they can have their remaining new toys when they are cleaned out in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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