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*Tube-Feeding The Puppers*

*Tube-Feeding The Puppers*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The puppies are just starting to open their eyes….. Soon they’ll be introduced to solid food…well not really solid…it’s more of a sloppy/gloppy gruel….. But before that occurs…I thought I would add a pictorial post of what an average tube-feeding meal entails….. The puppies are fat and thriving…but they haven’t figured out it’s the tube-feeding process that fills their bellies…and makes them happy….. They don’t like it…I can’t blame them…I wouldn’t hold still…

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*Forced Insomnia*

*Forced Insomnia*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know it’s only temporary….. But I’m at that whiny-stage of puppy-rearing….. I’d like to sleep…a full night…in my bed…I’m tired of warming formula in the wee hours of the morning….. I’m exhausted from the continuous/prevailing panic about tube feeding in the middle of the night…(or any time really)….. I cover it…but it’s a constant under-current…of bile-enhanced fear….. It’s something I will never get comfortable with in the sunny light of day…much less…

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*And Then There Was One*

*And Then There Was One*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Eight weeks came and went so very fast….. In the late/late hours of the night…at the beginning of the litter…when all your concentration is focused on if the stomach tube is in the right spot….. …..and you’re so very…very…very…tired….. …..and you think you’ll never sleep again….. Then suddenly…they’re gone…to their new lives & homes….. …..how did that happen?….. …..how did it go by so fast?….. My daughters and I have gotten to know…

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***Puppy Surprise***

***Puppy Surprise***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** They weren’t totally a surprise litter….. But they weren’t planned either….. …..by that I mean…we humans…didn’t plan for this litter to happen….. Ben did….. Ben had a despicable & pernicious plan of his own….. …..it was both plotted-out & opportunistic….. He included Molly at the very last minute….. …..she was compliant and complicit….. We were outsmarted on all fronts….. …..I have no pride left…I’ve regularly been outsmarted by just about all the animals…

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~Amy…..By Comparison~

~Amy…..By Comparison~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** I just wanted to show a photo comparison of little Amy’s progression….. …..then and now….. She was the littlest/itty-bitty/gray Irish Wolfhound puppy in Willow’s litter….. …..odds were that she wouldn’t make it….. …..I shouldn’t use the past tense…..because she’s very much amongst us….. …..but this little pup played the odds….. Amy’s come such a long way….. …..she’s a fighter…..she never considered not…

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~Let’s Talk Fenugreek~

~Let’s Talk Fenugreek~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Fenugreek…..it’s a thing….. It really is….. It’s an herb…or a root…or a leaf…..or some such thing….. …..I’m not really sure….. But it is one of the tricks-of-the-trade….. …..because when the herb is added to a mother’s dogs food…..it tends to increase her milk volume….. …..which is a good thing….. As you probably remember…..we have dairy goats…..(which is another good thing)….. …..(especially…

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‘Round & Around…

‘Round & Around…

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Rote works for me… I like predictable…   Repetition is the cornerstone of daily existence… Puppy-care is very repetitious… Feed…….Potty…….Clean-up…….Sleep…….Feed…….Potty…….Clean-up…….Sleep……. It’s Much Like:                   Rinse…..Lather…..&  Repeat….. It’s a routine that works for me… The hard part is fitting in the “rest of the day”… I try to do hit and run attacks on the other normal daily routines, so that those routines gets completed too……. …..albeit not in the usual time-frame……. …..which…

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