One Week! HOORAH!!!

1st hurdle down. Pups made it to one week of age and are gaining weight and doing well. Today I will begin the Super Puppy Stimulation exercises on each pup. It is believed they early neurological stimulation exercises will have important and lasting effects such as helping the pups as adults to handled stress better, mature earlier, and more resistant to some forms of cancer and diseases, more stable, and will learn faster. To read more about this click on this link: http://breedingbetterdogs.com/pdfFiles/articles/early_neurological_stimulation_en.pdf.

The exercises are to performed once a day for 3-5 seconds on each pup:
1) Ticked between toes with a Q-tip
2) Held perpendicular to the ground.
3) Held head down.
4) Held on back in palm of hand
5) Lain on a cold damp towel

Too much stress can be detrimental so these exercises are not to exceed the 3-5 seconds.

Figgy's temperature at 9:32 a.m. 101.1. Perfect. Figgy is a happy momma and is now relaxing a bit and coming out of the whelping box occasionally to lay on my bed and get hugs and kisses. She is wagging her tail when I come up to the whelping box and tell her "good girl". Puppies don't like being bumped by her tail and have learned to move out of the way. :)

Puppy Weights:
1) Brutus (Black Patch Boy) - 1' 4 1/4 oz.
2) Dubby (Liver Boy) - 1' 6 1/4 oz.

3)  Just Tom (Liver Boy) - 1' 2 1/4 oz.

Okay, I have temporary names. My mom kept on calling them Pat, Jeff and Tom for my three brothers. My brother Jeff liked the idea and we have started referring to the big liver boy as Dubby (that is his nick name). And he said we need to use Brutus (as that was Pat's nickname). Brother Tom did not have a nick name, thus the "Just Tom". I hope Pat and Tom would have liked that. 

Three boys 1 week of age

Three pups

Dubby

Dubby standing

Brutus

Just Tom

Brutus & Just Tom

Brutus' dashing patch