On Thursday night we had our first experience with solid food (well kind of solid). We fed them a blended up mixture of puppy kibble soaked in water and mixed with Esbilac (puppy formula). Usually puppies use up more food than they eat the first week since they don't really know how to eat and they play in it and make a mess but don't really eat it. Well our puppies did NOT have this problem (which means they are true Cardanis)! We fed them in two groups of 5 and they scarfed that first meal down! None of them had a problem figuring out how to eat!! We are now feeding them 3 meals a day and they sure love it! They also still like to nurse but Ruby is not in the whelping box with them as much now (which is normal at this age) so they only nurse a few times a day and during the night when she sleeps with them. Next week, she will only spend the night with the puppies and the week after that she will only come in for short play times so her milk will dry up and they will be only eating solid foods. We will slowly be adding less and less water to the food so that they will eventually be eating just the dry kibble.
This week we also gave the puppies their first toys!! They had been chewing on each other and wrestling so much that we figured they would love to play with toys. First they did a little investigating by smelling them and licking them and then they started to chew and play.
Here are some pictures from this exciting week!
2 comments:
Absolutely darling! They are so cute and they are certainly Cardani's!!!!!
Glad they are enjoying the toys. It's so fun to watch them playing.
You are doing a great job!!!
i love that last pic!! sooo cute!
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