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Bella and Hudson's Puppies - 6 weeks


So many new adventures this week!
It’s been a busy week for the puppies. Now that they are becoming more comfortable with outdoor living, they have been pursuing various hobbies and interests. Mr. Black, the lumberjack, has been gleefully pruning a lilac bush. Not to be outdone, Miss Yellow and Mr. Brown have taken up landscaping as they rearrange twigs and bark chips. Messrs. Crimson and Blue are amateur rock-climbers scaling the flower beds, while the others practice their track & field, gymnastics or even origami with the paper in their whelping box.

Bella feeds the puppies occasionally to supplement their diet of moistened puppy food, albeit with diminishing enthusiasm. It’s comical to watch them chase her around the yard in the hopes of getting a snack. All in all, Bella is doing a great job as a mum. She has even scared away a wild turkey lurking outside the fence to our yard. When the puppies are in their playpen, Bella lies dutifully beside it to watch over them, but sometimes shares this task with our Sierra who is still very enamoured with the little ones.

Fortunately, the weather has been co-operative most days so the pups spent a good deal of their time outside enjoying the fresh air and sunshine. The puppies also learned about rain one morning. As we were inside preparing their breakfast, Bella came running to the door with a bark so anxious as if to suggest that Timmy had fallen into the well. When I glanced outside, I realized what Bella was trying to tell us was that we’d had an unexpected downpour. We raced outside to find the poor little puppies huddled in a mass, completely drenched, quivering, looking quite bewildered. We brought them inside as quickly as possible, but their complaining didn’t stop until every last one was gently toweled dry.

We had lots of time to play this week!

The puppies play very exuberantly with one another and no-one is ever left out. While the boys are very boisterous, the girls can certainly hold their own. All of this play culminates in one of their other favourite pastimes, which of course is napping. And they certainly do their share of that.

It’s difficult to pass by their pen without having the puppies fix their gaze upon you in the hopes of being picked up. We’re convinced that Miss Yellow is like Mona Lisa whose eyes follow you around the room. They are at the age now where interaction with people is becoming increasingly important to them, so they react to every sight, sound and touch. Add a dash of their blossoming personalities and watch your resistance fade away.

Be sure to join us next week for the continuing saga of “Puppy Tales”.


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