Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Puppies
We had a call on Saturday morning from DARG sasking if we could foster five 5-week old puppies after we had left our details with them, saying that we are willing to do so.
Minna, Matias, Milja and India went to pick the little guys up and brought them back. Apparently they had been abandoned by their mum. They had flees and weren't too energetic. We had fun with them outside for a while, but they seemed to want to be inside together sleeping. They were treated for flees at DARG before we got them, so the flees were starting to drop off everywhere.
Looking after puppies is not hard. It is very tiring. The routine we are currently in with them is...
With five of them running around it can get quite hectic.
We have named all the puppies, although, of course, the names probably won't stick forever as new owners will most likely want their own names. We have 3 girls and 2 boys, and in that mix we have a set of identical twins. We have Rover and Timmy (twin), and Bellle, Mozy (twin) and Tiger.
Minna has been attending to them pretty much constantly since we got them, feeding them when they are up and helping them get to the paper in time when they need to 'go'. I offered to sleep with them in the lounge and be awake with them in the night, and have done so for the last two nights. The lack of sleep caught up with me and I just woke up at 1pm after going back to sleep once people had gone to school and work. Minna has been up all this time with the puppies. Andrew, a family friend who is staying with us at the moment, has also been helping out - I wouldn't have survived yesterday on my own at home without him.
The puppies are a lot lot livelier than they were when they arrived 4 days ago. They are bigger, too. They wolf down food like there's no tomorrow, and we had to send Heikki rushing to get more milk powder for them yesterday after they finished their first box before we realised.
India loves playing with them, and Milja is attached, of course. I think we have the puppies for another week or so before we hand them back to DARG from where they will be adopted.
I have photos, but will wait until I have finally finished putting up the Namibia set before I publish them.
Minna, Matias, Milja and India went to pick the little guys up and brought them back. Apparently they had been abandoned by their mum. They had flees and weren't too energetic. We had fun with them outside for a while, but they seemed to want to be inside together sleeping. They were treated for flees at DARG before we got them, so the flees were starting to drop off everywhere.
Looking after puppies is not hard. It is very tiring. The routine we are currently in with them is...
- Sleep for 2-3 hours
- Get up, wee, poo
- Play
- Eat
- Wee, poo
- Sleep fpr 2-3 hours
- etc ...
With five of them running around it can get quite hectic.
We have named all the puppies, although, of course, the names probably won't stick forever as new owners will most likely want their own names. We have 3 girls and 2 boys, and in that mix we have a set of identical twins. We have Rover and Timmy (twin), and Bellle, Mozy (twin) and Tiger.
Minna has been attending to them pretty much constantly since we got them, feeding them when they are up and helping them get to the paper in time when they need to 'go'. I offered to sleep with them in the lounge and be awake with them in the night, and have done so for the last two nights. The lack of sleep caught up with me and I just woke up at 1pm after going back to sleep once people had gone to school and work. Minna has been up all this time with the puppies. Andrew, a family friend who is staying with us at the moment, has also been helping out - I wouldn't have survived yesterday on my own at home without him.
The puppies are a lot lot livelier than they were when they arrived 4 days ago. They are bigger, too. They wolf down food like there's no tomorrow, and we had to send Heikki rushing to get more milk powder for them yesterday after they finished their first box before we realised.
India loves playing with them, and Milja is attached, of course. I think we have the puppies for another week or so before we hand them back to DARG from where they will be adopted.
I have photos, but will wait until I have finally finished putting up the Namibia set before I publish them.
Dan | 
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