02.06.10

They’ve all grown like weeds

Posted in News at 02:31 by nikki

Well, they are all doubled now and some don’t have far to triple. I’ve added some more photos in the Week 2 album.

Took Skella in to the vets (not a student vet this time) today and apart from the fact that she had a slight fever they couldn’t see anything although from all the info we gave them about how she is acting and the bleeding (of course she didn’t bleed while she was there) they think that quite possibly there was some damage to the uterus and most likely from the shots she got. So they told us to keep a close eye on her and sent Rúnar home (I was at home with the puppies) with some antibiotics but said NOT to give them unless we felt she needed them. They are good and careful that way, don’t give those drugs like candy because it’s so easy to make the body resistant to the antibiotics as so often happens with humans. They feel that we might have to spay her but insisted it not be done if not totally necessary until after the pups are gone. They would rather she be able to care for her pups without extra stress or problems from surgery. Which I’m so totally in agreement.

For the great news. They are starting to open their eyes, Tásla has one eye open now at the 2 a.m. feeding and they are all so big Aron is already 820 grams and he is drinking around 50 ml all by himself! Amazing how quickly they grow without you really actually noticing even though we weigh them many times a day it still comes as a great surprise when they are actually that big already.

The other dogs got to see the puppies while Skella was at the vet’s today and Birta seemed to realize that she was a grandma. If was a bit funny, she sniffed one of the puppies and then went and sniffed Klói’s butt. I wonder if there is a similar family smell to dogs?! I imagine so.

Well, I better get to bed for a few hours before they wake up again wanting more. A couple cute photos taken tonight of the other love bugs in the house. Rúnar has been taking the feedings in the evenings and half the weekends. These guys are feeling a bit left out most of the time so they grab any moment they can with Daddy! Frigg and Hófi got to go to the store with us yesterday and got to run on the way home but it was SO cold.

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