Puppies have all kinds of firsts because they were just born and they grow so quickly. They start out having their mom take care of them 24/7 for the first three weeks of their lives. After that they start to pee and poop on their own and then it is up to us humans to take over and start teaching them how to live. To do this we first start by feeling them gruel at about 3 to 3.5 weeks of age. If mom dog was out in the wild then she would catch her prey, eat it and regurgitate it back up for the young. Since Glory and her puppies don’t live in the wild except for the wild of my house she doesn’t need to feed them that way.
Ninja is my new best friend.
Eating gruel for the first time.
The next first is teaching the puppies to drink water. They need to learn to drink water since they aren’t getting to drink on mom whenever they want to. For this I just filled a bowl and put it in the middle of the room and they just came buy to investigate and started drinking. Some put their feet into it some ran past and pushed others into it but all in all they learned how to drink.
Look it’s water.
Disregard Forrest pooping in the background.
How about we swim in it, we are water dogs.
Splash splash.
The puppies did great with their water drinking so they were able to be relocated to the basement to their play land. More on that tomorrow. I’ll leave you with another first for today. Since the puppies got relocated to the basement they are able to go outside. Here is a video of them outside and me calling them to me.
Come back tomorrow to check out their play land.
I don’t know what is going on with my comments or really how to fix it. Only one person in the past two days has been able to comment. I’ll hopefully get that fix today sometime.
We are joining Linda at 2browndawgs and Jodi at Heart Like A Dog for this great blog hop.
I’m also joining Oz The Terrier and Barking From The Bayou to #Fight4Flea.
Flea you are the best and your going to kick cancers butt! Hang in there! Love the Sand Spring Gang.
I am looking forward to your continued posts. I have a 5 mo old Peek-A-Poo. She has a possession/no I do not want to do that issue in that she will bite!!! I do not know how to break her of this awful habit.
Hi Ann, thank you for stopping by. Sorry to hear about your possession problem. I also have that with one of my dogs, he will bite the other dogs if they get to close to what he has, won’t bite a person but still not what he should be doing. Sometimes is all in not letting her be put in those situations. Or desensitizing her with a really good treat and doing a trade off with her.
I wonder what they will think when they see how great this world really is… it was so cute to watch the videos, think the puppy fever totally got me :o)
This is a test to see if this works.
Love the videos! Those feeder bowls look very familiar. I used something like that for my pups and they were actually chip and dip bowls but they worked perfectly.
So cotton-pickin’ cute! Love seeing all the beanie bears’ firsts. ✮
I hope that you have been getting my comments. I am squealing over the cuteness of the puppies. Them eating gruel is adorable and I wouldn’t mind cleaning those sweet little munchkins. ♥
Love those videos! Those feeder bowls look very familiar. I used ones that looked just like that and they were actually chip and dip bowls but they worked perfect.
They are so darn cute. Love the little squeaks. Thanks for joining the hop!
The comment box is here, so I will comment. They are so cute! I can only imagine they are a real mess after a meal, but they are babies.
Thanks for commenting, found out all my comments were going into spam. urge
I was able to comment yesterday (I think), and I wondered why there were no other comments on there!
Everything those little guys do is so darn cute!! LOL
Goodness, them eating the gruel is so funny and really rather messy! Out in the garden now – they are growing fast.
So cute. I can smell the puppy breath 🙂
I love seeing how the puppies are doing! They are precious!