4 week old photos

The puppies are now eating a blended puppy food and water mixture about 4 times a day. They moved to their larger pen in our attached garage today. This gives the puppies more space to move around and explore. They will be given a few puppy toys this week also. They are all cutting their back teeth and really want to chew on our fingers and each other constantly.

These 2 photos are of the pink and pink camo puppies. Pink is our smallest and pink camo is one of the two largest in the litter. Both seem fairly easy going at this point. Neither seems overly shy, but they also don't seem rambunctious at this point either. Pink seems content to nap on our shoulders when we hold her and pink camo is more apt to wiggle around before settling in.

These 2 photos are of the purple and red collar puppies. These females are both very outgoing and full of spunk. The red collar was our first and only to escape the puppy pen in our living room. Once she learned how to escape she used that knowledge often! She comes toddling over every time we go near the pen. She loves to be held and cuddled and is big on giving puppy kisses. The purple collar girl has no fear. She likes to sit by the edge of the pen and sit nose to nose with the big dogs. She licks their faces and isn't opposed to barking at them if they aren't paying attention to her. Both of these puppies are already good at looking you right in the eye.

These photos are of our male puppies. Camo collar male is the largest puppy in the litter and is exceptionally big. He's only slightly larger than pink camo girl. They both are so large they often appear to waddle as they walk. Camo still "talks" a lot and if he's away from the group which he seems to be often, we sure hear about it. He often sleeps on his own away from the typical pile of sleeping puppies. The blue collar boy is still a cuddler and will sleep as long as you'll hold him. He likes to cuddle up under your chin and then eventually rolls over for a tummy rub.

2 week old photos

All our puppies are doing well. 2 are very large and are quickly outgrowing the rest of the litter. Both of our larger puppies are also slightly lighter in color than the others. One larger puppy is a female and one is a male. All of the puppies are starting to open their eyes and some have their eyes almost completely open. They are starting to stand up instead of just scooting on their tummies. Most are starting to take a wobbly step or two before toppling over and resorting to scooting again. Ginny is a terrific mama. She's feeding them almost constantly and keeping a close eye on them, but also lets us have the joy of holding and cuddling them as often as we want. They're still so young that they snuggle right in and fall asleep when we pick them up so they are getting held quite a lot right now.

These 2 photos are of our bigger 2 girls. One is average size and the other is very large.

These 2 photos are of our two petite girls. They are healthy and eager for each meal, but just slightly smaller than the other puppies. These 2 girls are also our darkest puppies and have very sleek shiny coats. One of these smaller girls seems to be having a growth spurt the last day or two so we'll be interested to see if she catches up with some of her siblings in size in the next week.

These are our males. The larger one is fairly vocal if he happens to scoot away from the rest of his littermates. He also prefers to wiggle around and sniff all over when we hold him before he snuggles in for a nap. The other male is average size and very easy going. He's already showing a liking for tummy rubs and often rolls over when we hold him for a little tummy rub before falling asleep.

To the left and right is Wyatt. Wyatt was sired by BigValley’s Costa-lot Shaddow FTCH-AFTCH who was sired by Pachanga Magnum Force.  Wyatt’s dam is Hunts Jami Star-Brown JH.  Wyatt weighs 90-95 pounds and has his HRCH title in HRC and his MH title in AKC.  So before the age of 3 Wyatt got all 3 top 3 hunt titles in AKC, HRC, and NAHRA. Wyatt's stud information is available at www.whiskeyriverlabs.com

Ginny’s sire is Marsh-Mutt Boot Scootin Cuda, MH (OFA Hip Excellent, Eye CERF), her grand-sire was FC-AFC-CFC-CAFC Barracuda Blue, MH. Cuda was the only FC-AFC and high point All-Age chocolate lab in AKC field trial history, and all amateur handled.  He was also the first and only chocolate labrador to qualify for the National Amateur Field Trials in ’96 and ’97. Ginny has photos on her page link to the left.

Ginny & Wyatt

Wyatt

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4 week old boys.

Gus from Ginny & Wyatt 2009 Litter

Gus

4 week old boy

River & Thumper brother and sister from Ginny & Wyatt's 2007 Litter.

 

River

Thumper

 

 

 

 

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