Today Pink Girl Puppy and Blue Boy Puppy will be turning 1 week old at 10:45 pm. The rest of the gang will need to wait until 12:00 am to turn a week old. In this week the wee puppy are already starting their fitness routine. After watching these guys I really think they have the hardest routines.
First off the were just born and need to learn to walk while having no site or no hearing. All they have is their sense of smell and touch to get around, with saying that they may have to go a long ways to get to mom. Mom gets up and moves around the whelping box so then the wee little ones have to crawl across the box to find mom.
Once by mom they have to crawl to find their spot, there spot may be a certain nipple or
just a snooze on their brother to cover up his junk so this isn’t a porn picture.
One is on the go again, if they aren’t nursing, sleeping they are on the move.
Then their nursing they are exercising their tail as they are wagging a mile a minute burning so many calories.
While nursing they are also strengthening their back leg muscles by having to push themselves up to the nipple, they are also using their front leg muscles to knead while they are nursing. The kneading action stimulates the milk letdown so they get to have milk.
Turning over and rolling over burns calories and gains strength in different muscles.
So you can see the wee puppies even know only a week old have to do so much to grow and be strong. Mom Glory is also doing her part even know she is probably loosing muscle mass because all she does is lay in her whelping box and take care of the puppies only going outside to potty and back in she is burning a ton of calories producing milk and nursing her wee puppies. I have been keeping her food dish filled and adding canned food to get her to eat it all and supplementing with protein bars so she can keep producing milk. It’s a rough life but as you can see from the picture Glory doesn’t mind at all taking care of all her and Thunders precious puppies.
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She is a fabulous mom and her pups are the one and only thing what’s impawtant. BRAVO Glory! Please give black male a big hug from Easy (is it the one what shows it’s belly?)
The puppies are precious and Glory looks like she is a very proud mama!
Now these are the small beings that should be called rug rats! Delightful stage and all looking super cuddly.
Loving all the photos of the pups. Do they all have homes already? Glory looks like a really happy mum…
Seriously, I would be getting zero work done around your house. The puppies are so precious. It is going to be so much fun when their eyes open and then can really move around with determination. ♥
aaww such a wonderful mommy and the puppies are so adorable! XOXO – Bacon
Oh I missed the big news last week (I was camping!) Congratulations!
Such sweet little ones. Glory seems to love being a mom too.
Beyond cute. You are a good mama Glory!
Can you imagine if we all started our lives exercising like that! How fit we’d all be!
OMG these photos are so cute. Congrats again, they are all beautiful!
Glory is being such an awesome mum to her adorable babies.
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I’m exhausted just looking at photos. You and glory must be whipped!
To be a Labrador Puppy is serious business! 🙂
I just can’t get over how adorable they are!
ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!
No wonder puppies sleep so much…all that has to really wear them out! 🙂
Mama looks so happy!!
Those sure are some precious puppies! And Glory looks like such a good mama.
This post gave me another glaring example of why people shouldn’t breed without thinking it through. I would never have understood to do what you’re doing. I would have picked up each puppy and taken them to their mom. *shm* Thanks for sharing this experience.
Hi Y’all!
Oh love it! They are so adorable! And growing so fast!
Y’all come on by,
Hawk aka BrownDog
Oh my goodness–that little puppy tummy in the second picture! They are so cute! I never thought about how exhausting it would be to be a brand new puppy! Glad they have such a happy mommy to take care of them.
Beautiful puppies and growing up so fast!
Aww, Glory & Thunder have some precious, precious puppies!! They are so adorable and it’s super interesting to watch them. I remember when our pups were this tiny and we visited them almost every day until they came home with us at 8 weeks of age 🙂