SoftMaple 2002 litter

A day to day puppy diary

This litter whelped 4/10/2002 out of CH SoftMaple's International Fling CGC Cardiac Clear, CERF CR-640G26F-PI, CR-640G26F-PI sired by CH SoftMaple's O' Dark Thirty JH SH CD WC WCX CGC CR-536G27M-T cardiac, CERF

5/22/2002 5am. The pups get moved to the Shark Cage while I clean out the puppy room.

Here is the puppy room with everything removed, floor just mopped, then the papers are put down.

The ramps, tunnels and toys are put back in. This is the only time the room looks remotely neat!

Now the pups are done eating, and storm in!

8:00am, the pups go outside! The grass is still wet, so I put them in the puppy pen. (it is 2 feet off the ground) Just a few quick pictures for now. The lighting will be better once the sun moves and I'll take some more.

You can see through the fencing the big dogs runs in the background.
The puppy pen is not connected to the big dogs runs. I like to have a bit of a buffer in between. The pups do not have their shots yet, and only have the antibodies they got from Seger. I also limit visitors to people I know. I try not to do any dog shows while I have a litter, or if I do, I stop somewhere on the way home to change my cloths and shoes. I have known too many people who brought parvo back to a litter of pups. A blue ribbon isn't worth risking the litter!

You can also just make out the A-frame of my agility range through some of the shots back behind the trees.

2:00 pm I set up a couple of X-pens in the yard for the pups. They loved the grass! Biting at it, growling, rolling in it. Setting up the two X-pens made two different "rooms" for the pups, with a low barrier in between. They raced from one area to the other having a ball. We took individual pups out to follow us in the grass, and visit with Sally and Tessa. (Sally was not impressed!)

4:00 pm We threw out some wings for the pups

6pm pictures. The neighbors came over to see the pups. We don't have kids, but its so important for the pups to get used to all kinds of people. Young, old, men and women.

Puppies love to chaise and chew on feet!

7:00 pm

Eating again!

We're ready to go back in now!

5/23/2002 Day 43

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