Willa's One Week Pictures

Below are Willa's one week pictures. The puppies are growing so fast, we can't believe it. Willa has been taking such good care of the puppies. She just scoops them all towards her and snuggles them. It is so cute, when they are sleeping the puppies are draped all over Willa. Across her tummy, her paws, snuggled into her neck. She is such a wonderful mom.

1st Picture : Red ribbon female
2nd Picture : Tan ribbon male
3rd Picture: Blue ribbon male
4th Picture: Blue Tan ribbon male
5th Picture: Blue Red ribbon male
6th Picture: Orange Yellow ribbon female
7th Picture: Orange ribbon female

Lucy's Two Week Pictures

Well, we had to do things a little differently today. While it was a good time for me to take pictures of the puppies.....they didn't necessarily feel the same way. They did not want to lay still and take pictures, they wanted to crawl around, and explore, holding their little noses out to sniff their way along. Since they can't see yet and are just beginning to hear, they guide themselves fully on scent. So I had to have two puppies out at a time so they could snuggle each other and be more likely to lay still for a moment or two. Believe me, a moment or two was all I got!! I spent about an hour-hour and a half taking about 200 pictures and the ones on the blog are really the only good ones!!

So bear with me while I explain which puppy is which...
1st Picture: Orange ribbon female(the top puppy)
2nd Picture: Red ribbon female(she actually took one alone)
3rd Picture: Blue ribbon male(the top puppy)
4th Picture: Tan male(bottom puppy)
5th Picture: Blue Red male(the top puppy)
6th Picture: Blue Tan male(puppy to the right)
7th Picture: Blue Orange female

Group Puppy Pictures

Willa's Puppies Have Arrived!

Well, Willa had 7 beautiful puppies. Believe it or not she had 4 boys and 3 girls just like Lucy! They are all doing very well and Willa is being a great mom, which we expected.
Below are the first individual pictures of the puppies.

1st Picture: Blue ribbon male
2nd picture: Tan ribbon male
3rd picture: Orange Yellow ribbon female
4th picture: Orange ribbon female
5th picture: Blue Red ribbon male
6th picture: Blue Tan ribbon male
7th picture: Red ribbon female

Candid Puppy Pictures

Well the puppies are certainly growing! This is because of their wonderful mom Lucy. She takes such great care of them and loves nurturing and taking care of them. They make the cutest sounds when nursing, being held, or while trying to get in a good position for sleep. I will have to take a video and post it.
I love holding them while they snuggle into your hand or lap and make the most content purring(yes I know they are not cats but this is the est way to describe it) sounds as they drift off to sleep.
Below there are some pictures of the puppies as they are napping. They are happiest when the are piled on top of each other. If one is even any inch away from the other puppies it will fuss and cry until it is laying under or on top of the others. Absolutely adorable!

One Week Pictures

1st Pic: Blue ribbon male
2nd Pic: Red ribbon female
3rd Pic: Tan ribbon male
4th Pic: Orange ribbon female
5th Pic: Blue tan male
6th Pic: Blue orange female
7th Pic: Blue red male

Individual Pictures.

Below are individual puppy pictures.

1st Puppy: Blue Red Male
2nd Puppy: Orange Female
3rd Puppy: Blue Male
4th Puppy: Tan Male
5th Puppy: Blue Tan Male
6th Puppy: Red Female
7th Puppy: Blue Orange Female

The puppies are doing great! They are spending most of their time with mom, being nursed and cleaned and loved. They are getting weighed twice a day to make sure that they are all thriving, which they are. They are all close in weight except Tan boy, he is still a little larger then the rest. Of course that is to be expected since he was much bigger at birth. Lucy is such a doting mom. She just loves being with them and taking care of them. It is hard to get her to leave them for a little while so she can have a little break and go potty! We are having a great time, holding and cuddling the puppies. While we love to see them grow and see their personalities develop, there is nothing like holding a two day old puppy in your arms!

Enjoy the pictures!

The Puppies Have Arrived!!

Well, they are here! There are 7 beautiful little puppies that arrived all night long last night! There are 4 boys and 3 girls. Lucy had her first puppy at 8:30 last night and had her last one at 6:00 this morning. She did great as always! Mom and puppies are all healthy and doing very well.

We usually deliver the puppies in the puppy nursery in a big(heavy) 4x4 whelping box. However, we have talked to many breeders that use a baby pool and love it. Whelping puppies is a very messy job and mom tends to continue to be a little messy for a little while and other breeders love how easy it is to move these light pools and wash them, keep them clean, and move them wherever they need them. When we decided that we wanted to deliver the puppies in the kitchen and then move them into the puppy nursery after a few days, we decided to try the baby pool idea. Boy do we love it! It is the perfect size. The big 4x4 whelping box doesn't allow mom to get comfy and cozy and allow her to feel like she is in her own little nest. The big whelping box also allows more room for the puppies to wiggle away from mom and get lost! The pool fits perfectly in the corner of our kitchen so Lucy and the puppies can be right near us while they are young and need to be monitored. It is very easy to keep clean, and mom and puppies can stay nice and cozy and close to each other. Who thought that something so easy could work so well?

I posted some pictures of the puppies below. They are adorable! They are smaller then we expected. Weights ranged from 8.8 oz to 11.8 oz. with one big boy at 14.8 oz. Gee, I wonder who was getting all the food in mom's belly??

We will get some individual pictures in the next day or two!