Today has been busy – the pups have all been weighed and wormed! Now they are bigger this means they need more of the worming liquid!! EEEeeep!!!!!.

They have had their claws clipped too. This is now the sixth time they have been clipped….so thats 36 sets of paws I have clipped, totalling 648 claws that have been clipped on wiggling little puppas, so far!!!

The puppies are much busier now and are learning how to be dogs! This means they are playing rougher than they were. The playfights they are having now enables them to learn that biting hurts!

With the weather being so hot, we are covering the patio before putting the puppies out to protect their feet. You may not have heard of the 5 second rule – but you should check your patio, artificial grass or pavement. If you cannot place your hand comfortably on the hot surface then you MUST not be exposing your dogs (or in my case the puppies) to the hot surface. I am worried for the next few day as I have not had puppies during a heatwave before. I have spent the day organising yoghurt frozen pops for the puppies and the adult dogs, to have sporadically throughout the day (ie not vast quantities in one go) organising ways to keep them cool. I am as prepared as I can be. It is very important to not let them get hot in the first place. I dont want to have to implement protocol for heatstroke cases.

please read this article…heatstroke….noting my article refers to ice cubes… the small yoghurt pops I make are used for prevention and offered in small quantities is prevention, ice cubes for heatstroke is NOT treatment.

Some videos of the sweet chaos in the puppy room (formerly known as my tidy lounge).

Medley of Daily playtime

Wilma takes charge of her toy

Time to go fishing

Marchstone Supermodels

Beautiful chaos lots of puppy jumps

Exercise before bedtime

Did someone say biscuits?

Too much puppy activity – means more videos! Last night they sped up! So our workload is now becoming harder as they are under our feet and hard to catch!!They are funny to watch as they learn to master running as fast their brain thinks they can!

We have had our first escapee from the whelping box, came downstairs this morning to find a puppy looking back at me through the door!

We are now adopting the very unique walk that all puppy breeders eventually have to master, the slide stride. This is keeping your feet as flat to the surface as you can and slide along. This is to avoid accidentally catching an active puppy who is whizzing by!

Im half way through clipping their claws (3 pups left to do) they are so busy it is a two person job!

Been fishing, caught me a fishie!

When you look up in the video dictionary, the term “Puppy Pile”

Going on a puppy walk

Boop the snoot

slo mo puppies

Daily playtime

Puppy playtime

Puppy fun with the water fountain

Bundles of mischief all over the place (this one is a bit whizzy, so might make you feel a little odd!).

Puppy wipeout,rufty tufty, boops & mumma too

Playtime medley

Sleepy puppy

Playtime combo

What is a better game than bitey face when everyone else is asleep?

Tilly’s tots playtime

Please be so careful with this extreme heat. So the heat can be retained in hard surfaces such as pavements and your patio slabs in the garden! So don’t let your animals walk on these surfaces which could be boiling hot and cause burns! You can hose down the garden patio to take the heat out. Be aware the heat can be retained for quite some time so do the hand test. If you cannot leave your hand on the patio for longer than 5 seconds then it is too hot. Please use your common sense!!!

We have made a shelter in the garden by putting a ‘roof’ over one corner of fencing. Using the fencing will help with air flow at the sides. The puppies are not being left in the garden in the heat of the day as even in the shelter the air can become too warm.

Things you can do to help your animals and what we have been doing for our puppies and dogs, is spraying them with water, they have the paddling pool which they can walk into safely and giving them little ice pops. The puppies have liked the yoghurt ice pops – I have chopped them into small little bite size pieces to ensure the pups are safe eating them. Make sure you leave plenty of water available. It is so important to keep your animals hydrated.

If you are concerned your animal may be suffering with heat stroke please do not dowse them in freezing cold water! place a towel on them and spray them with cool water. This towel will need to be kept cool as it absorbs the heat from the animal. The importance of doing it this way is to have even displacement of the cool water. It is very important that the towel is also kept cool by continuing to add water to it. DO NOT COOL your over heated animal with VERY COLD water as the animal will go into shock.

PLEASE do not let your animal over heat. Use cooling mats, cooling bandanas, do NOT walk in the heat of the day. Keep hydrated and if you are in any way concerned about the welfare of your pet.. PHONE YOUR VET!

Basic Health Checks – how to check hydration.

So puppy videos from the past couple of days….

Slo Mo Puppas

Beautiful scampering puppa

Bouncing Puppas

Coming for kisses, ready or not

Tug of war

Happy Puppas

Jaunty Miss Orange

Puppy play in the garden

Mealtimes take less than a minute!

Puppy cruelly attacked by a blanket

Time with Wilma is time well spent

Wilma playing with her siblings

Hello is it me you are looking for?

Mr Blue thinks he can move faster than his little toe beans!

Its a pups life, play, eat, sleep, repeat

Is this the way to amarillo?

Wilma’s patience is astounding

Puppy shenanigans

Well.. I say they are gathering momentum, the heat has slowed them down. So the only time they are really quite fast is first thing in the morning and last thing at night!! I am hoping this hot weather is going to disappear soon as it is way too much for our precious bundles and is causing me anxiety.

So …. I am spraying them regularly with water and ensuring they have plenty of shade when they are in the garden. They are not in the garden for any length of time when the heat is making everything unbearable.

Summer has never been my season, as I have so many animals to ensure are kept safe from the heat it is a full time job in itself.

I always have doggy ice cubes in the freezer however I have had to modify them to accommodate the puppies teeth. So I have made thinner ice cubes for them. If they are too chunky it could cause damage to their teeth. I will try the modified ice cubes later. Fingers crossed they are ok and then I can make them some more.

We have had a busy weekend of visitors so it is hard to get the diary done in addition to making sure everything else is kept up to speed.

So… the pups are just doing fabulously. They are adorable and still a balanced litter with regard their characters.

Here are a “few” videos. (ha ha… more than the last time – so another bumper crop!)

Paddling pool I am using Katherine’s sled as a first stage paddling pool. Im hoping to put them in the small paddling pool soon. They love the little duckies!!!

Where would we be without Wilma?

Rapid and Repeated Attacks! The pups are pinging me with kisses! Love this so much!

Early Morning Capers

Wilma covered in puppies!

Drift away with the bubbles

Puppy play indoors as it is so hot outside!

Im so hungry!

Settling down to sleep

Cute puppa, Miss Yellow playing ball

Line up for Mumma kisses

Miss Yellow playing ball

Miss Pink strutting her stuff

Puppy play in the garden

Perfect relationship between Big Sister and Miss Purple

Referee needed for the hooligans!

Miss Red

Miss Orange

Nothing to see here!

Its ok I got it, this snake is history!

Miss Orange

Perfect spin

Early morning puppy playtime

Super puppy power

Early morning capers

Photos have been added to the pups gallery

The puppies have ramped up a gear and have decided today is the day that the No List is opened. They were hanging off my trouser legs as I was putting them in the garden – let me tell you it is no easy feat to get puppies safely in the garden when they are under your feet and playing with your ankles and trousers!

So – toilet training…. going really well ! We are constantly putting the pups in and out of the pen into the garden. All poos are consistently in the garden. This mornings pen had only two wees in it from overnight – so this is a really good sign that they are hanging on! At not even six weeks old this is really remarkeable. Well done Puppies!

Here are a bumper set of videos!

Wilma Playtime

Tilly plays with her pups for the first time! This was a couple of days ago….Such a magical moment as Tilly has been finding it hard to spend time with them without them constantly wanting to feed, so this was a special moment as she has wanted to enjoy her pups!

Crazy puppa big sister Wilma

Beautiful Mumma Tilly

It takes patience to be a good Mumma

Puppa chewing on Mumma’s paw!

Wilma playing with Tilly!

Tilly playing with pup (so endearing to watch this stage of Tillys relationship developing!)

Plenty of puppy activity

Crazy antics

Love you Mumma

The NO list has been opened!!!

Puppy playtime

Wilma and Tilly enjoying the pups

Wilma on playtime duties

Puppies bouncing and skipping

Mum mum mummy mumma

True story camera operator attacked!

Wait for it – someone needed a kiss!

Puppy scampering

and saving the best till last – flight of the bumblebees

I cant believe I missed out a few videos when I was putting on a mammoth amount of videos yesterday!

Puppa Zoo Zoom

Its a kind of magic

A beautiful moment with Tilly and her puppies at the milk bar.

Brekkie!

Time has gone so quickly and the puppies are just smashing it! They are really cute delightful little pups.

Toilet training is going so well. All poos have been in the garden since my last diary entry (with the exception of one) this is amazing.

Most of the wee’s are outside and they are holding on long enough for us to carry them out. They seem to be asking to go out as when they cry, if we dont get to them in time, they will then wee in the whelping box!

You will have noticed with the videos that Wilma is featuring a lot with Tilly not in many. She is very well in herself but is on a learning curve with feeding puppies that have sharp teeth so hasnt wanted to stay around longer than necessary. However last night was a turning point whereby she actually had some playtime with them! (I do have a video but I haven’t had a chance to review it yet).

Before starting the videos (of which there are many – you might want to get the chocolate biscuits out!) I hope you can appreciate I take many videos which all need reviewing and not all of them make it, so it isn’t at all that I focus on any one particular puppy! The puppies love the phone and one of them made a video call to someone on facebook – completley by accident. I would have been so pleased to receive that random video call! LOL

The baby toys they have, are great for the age that I have them for as they are designed to be hung up on to cots, prams or on mobiles – so this is ideal as I can use the clips to hang them up in the whelping box or on the fence in the garden. This encourages the puppy to look at them and bat them about. They also love the baby toy that has buttons, lights and wonderful noises. Any of the baby toys you see in the videos will NOT be suitable for when pups go to their new homes as they will be destroyed relatively easily!

So hopefully you are ready to enjoy the videos – I love them all, but there are some in particular that really fill me with joy so please feel free to comment in the FB group if you like individual videos!

Slo Mo Angels (love this one!)

Puppies playing indoors

Bounce Skip Hop (Indoor play)

Puppy power

Wilma on Mum duties

Come on puppies, I have all the loves rght here!

Slo Mo Pink Panther

Wilma stealing a puppy toy

Puppies covered in milk

Cutest thing on the internet!!! (seriously – this is one of my favourite videos – so cute) …(with a mistake in the heading of the video on tiktok – unfortunately I cannot alter it!)

Puppies after they have had a bowl of milk

Wilma in charge of cleaning the pups up!

Bundles of cute puppies

Puppies need enrichment toys

Proud big sister

Puppy pile up

Whats better than puppies charging towards you? Slo Mo Puppies!

Puppies are intrigued by the baby toy that has buttons, lights and music?

Double Boop

Trio of Tots (Winnie the Poo)

Busy busy!

The puppies have been having lots of playtime and I can see characters developing now.

Weaning is going really well. Puppies were wormed again on Saturday ad have had their claws clipped too!

So … over the past couple of days we have had fun in the garden and puppy playtime in the house too!

Play before bedtime!
Last one going to bed!!!

Early morning play!

Nothing to see here! (mumma doesnt need to know!!!)

Angelic puppies! (flying without wings!)

Boing Boing! (just the cutest little puppa)

Pups in the garden

Play all day!

So proud of big sister Wilma

Tilly is being such a wonderful Mumma

The puppy gallery has been updated!

Puppies are now having four meals a day and doing well. They are mainly having soaked kibble but I have tried them out on dry kibble and they did very well on it!

The pups are learning to play amongst each other and they are mainly respectful towards each other!

Oh No! Her nose fell in to my mouth – honest!!!

Miss Red – on the catwalk with her entourage one of my favourite videos!

Puppas in the garden

Miss Pink…. boop!

va va voom

Puppy fix

24hrs apart – the puppies are getting so big now that Tilly is finding it hard to remain comfortable whilst feeding them, so she is tending to feed them standing up now!

Beautiful sleepy puppy

Puppy playtime

(joke) There has been a major incident so phonecalls had to be made! An investigation has been opened up! Update on incident soon!

The pups are so entertaining. I am loving having these little cherubs, they are a very calm litter, with a couple of pups who are clearly thinkers! Having puppies that sit and reflects are worth their weight in gold!

Toilet training is going exceptionally well! No poo’s in the pen overnight for two nights and no poo’s indoors either! To have no night time poo’s for a couple of nights is particularly astonishing for their age.

We are getting most of the wee’s outside – not surprisingly we cannot get them all, all of the time, but a very good effort is being made and I would say 90% of the wee’s are outside!

Here are a few videos from 28th and 29th (there may be a few more to come but Im still going through them!!).

Mr Blue on the catwalk (with the cutest little silent woof at the beginning)

The Bounce (this is extraordinarily cute..play on repeat is advised!)

Little Pickles in the lounge – not the best of quality videos…. BUT this is the first time they have had playtime in the lounge and they LOVED it!

Puppy play in the lounge

Skips and bops

Miss Purple on the catwalk

Miss Pink busting some moves

Miss Purple football star showing how it is done!

The Hustle, Wilma distracts the puppy to get the ball!

Puppies strutting their stuff – showing how its done!!