The rearing of my puppies
Let's start with the preparations for the birth.
The whelping box is set up in the living room and prepared for the approaching birth, the heat lamp placed, and all required accessories like eg plenty of towels, a smalldog box with hot water bottle, baby scale, neck ribbon made so wide grip.
After the birth is over and the mom and her puppies are doing well, the Puppies protection boards mounted approximately 10 cm in height in the whelping box, they prevent that in the bustle of female lying down as one of the puppies to come to harm. However, this alone we never secure enough. For this reason, and so we the puppies and the mother in the first time ( about two weeks, 24 hours a day ) under observation, we sleep in the mum and the Puppies in the living room. This is very important especially in the first few days , because in this initial period, the pups no reserves from which they could live off. After these three days, we weigh only once a day.
After the birth of the puppies they are first weighed and with different colored Tapes provided so that they are unique and continue each individually can be observed and distinguished.
In the first three days after birth we weigh the puppies three times a day to see that each puppy is increasing well.
I think this is also very important , if only to have the control about that really all puppies grow quickly and are all developing well.
The babies open one after another the eyes and ears and start to crawl.
They can see now though but nothing to crawl and sniff has been going quite well.
