One month...

The puppies are now a month (and a few days) old!  It's amazing how much has happened since they were born.  It's a bit of a blur, but so many milestones have been reached.  This morning we fed all nine puppies at once. They are eating out of bowls, a mixture now of Esbilac milk-replacer with 2nd Step to thicken it up.  The pups LOVE the 2nd Step addition!  We sure don't miss bottle feeding!

All of the pups have received de-worming treatment twice so far, and all have had their first parvovirus vaccination.  I know if may sound young to start, but we obtained a breed-specific recommendation on the vaccinations, straight from the DVM who developed the (NeoTech) vaccines, which are specially formulated to be capable of inducing immunity in younger puppies.  We plan three rounds of NeoPar to protect against parvo, and two rounds of NeoVac to protect against distemper-adenovirus.  By the time these pups go to their new homes, they will have strong immunity!

The pup's teeth are coming in, and they are starting to play with toys and play rough-and-tumble with eachother.  I have loads of videos that I will get around to editing and uploading soon (I hope). 

Colors are still gradually changing.  Garbanzo is lightening up, Pali II and Lentil are becoming hard to tell apart as Lentil is gaining weight and his color is lightening up to closely match Pali II's.  Adzuki's markings are really striking - he's got little light colored eyebrow areas that really bring out his eyes.  Soy is lightening up a bit too, as are Cocoa's legs.  Kidney is still our little red stunner, and Lima's tortoise shell pattern is oh so pretty.  Pali II's white muzzle and freckles are just too cute.  Sigh...such beautiful babies.

I have another new batch of photos to share...here are some highlights... 

Garbanzo

Kidney

Pali II

Kidney's got Pali-II's tail!

Cocoa

Soy

Pali II

Adzuki

I've posted the rest of the pictures from today in Puppy Album II and on the puppies' individual pages.

Aloha!