*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I realized I hadn’t done a puppy update for a little while….. All of our recent puppies have found their new homes…and Sabine is getting her figure back….. The majority of the puppies went to homes who have already had one of our Irish Wolfhounds in the past….. We’ve been bringing puppies into this world for a number of years….. I’m proud of our decades of involvement…Irish Wolfhounds are a wonderful ancient rare…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* In some ways the time has flown by….. In other ways…I feel like we’ve paid our pound of flesh….. …..if only the purple & blue shadowing under my eyes could be transferred to my upper eyelids like eye makeup…it might just look good….. Sabine’s eight puppies are almost ready to start going to their new homes…most of them are going to previous Irish Wolfhound owners…or referrals from friends….. …..this part…never…gets easier….. …..it’s always…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Puppy worming needs to be done on a regular basis…at two weeks…four weeks…and six weeks…(and onward)….. …..it’s a necessary thing……. I don’t understand how Mother Nature works…that is…where parasites in babies are concerned……. …..not just puppies……. …..but foals…..and goat kids…..and kittens……. I wonder if baby humans need worming(?)….. I don’t remember Pyrantel Pamoate’ing my daughters (every two weeks) when they were infants….. I know we humans get pinworms…it’s true….. ………….don’t ask…………. I bet…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We are no longer worried about problem eaters….. …..(that’s an understatement)….. We are no longer concerned about their successful transition from nursing to solid food….. …..(our current definition of solid food is pasty formula-soaked kibble)….. Everyone smells like sour milk…puppies and humans included….. …..because it’s everywhere….. …..in our hair…under our fingernails…behind our ears….. Nursing from Sabine was so much neater….. The milk went directly from her…into their mouths….. Now that they’re eating gruel…it’s…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Wow…time is flying by….. My daughter’s and I share shifts of sitting up with the puppies in the den….. We’re almost at the stage where they leave their bins…and take up residence in wire cages…(also in the den)….. Maybe we’re being overly protective…but you never know if a split second awareness might be just what a puppy needs to survive some stupid decision….. ………….(plus…I don’t trusts our house cats)…………. ………….(remember the plotting cats…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine’s babies are growing and healthy….. They are coming up to three weeks old….. Their eyes are open….. And the little fuzz-balls are just starting to think about eating gruel and soaked kibble….. It’s that super fun messy stage…where they wear more than they actually eat….. Sabine has been a great Mom….. She has produced milk abundantly throughout….. We did pull out some special herbs from our apothecary cupboard…to help her maintain and…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine is bouncing back from her puppy delivery….. We’ve taken out her stitches (from the cesarean section)….. Against popular demand…gassy Sabine continues to love her fresh eggs….. My older daughter did a lot of research on what food add-ons would help to increase her milk production….. The list was interesting….. What was even more interesting…were the foods that Sabine really craves eating and begs for….. …..like raw broccoli(?)…(she drooled over the pieces like…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..(FYI–a dog trainer friend asked what’s going on with the spots on Sabine’s teeth)….. As I mentioned before…Sabine is not top of her class…intellectually speaking….. …..she’s a wonderful hound…she’s a loving sweet girl….. But some of her decision-making needs improvement….. She plays with rocks…and she chews on grout lines….. If left alone anywhere…she will find something to chew on and destroy….. She never outgrew that stage of puppyhood chewing….. …..we don’t judge…everyone is…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sabine does look pregnant now….. My daughters are referring to her as a school bus….. It’s an applicable analogy….. I would guess a post on Saint Patrick’s Day about pending Irish Wolfhound puppies would be appropriate….. I’m always worried when we’re coming up to a puppy delivery….. Who am I kidding…I’m worried after they’re delivered…I’m worried when I’m feeding neonates…I’m worried about the families they’ll be going to…I’m worried about their future lives……..
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I realized I haven’t given an update on Killian’s last litter….. The puppies have gone on and started their new lives with their new owners….. Remember we give temporary litter names to the puppies…they aren’t anything permanent….. It’s just a temporary name that we can call them…until they get their forever names with their new families….. Quite often the litter names are established during a sleep-deprived/punchy-state in the midst of feeding and caring…