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“The Free-for-All”
It all starts innocently enough.
One puppy will lick or nibble on another puppy’s ear or any exposed body part,
and that one in turn does likewise to an unsuspecting sibling and so on and so
on. Before long the entire mini-pack is engaged in a friendly brouhaha. The
playing field is pretty level between the boys and girls as Miss Amber was
witnessed trying to ingest her brother’s leg. Along with the nibbling, the
activities include jousting and wrestling punctuated by miniature growls,
squeaks and barks. Mind you, it’s all good fun and after a period of frenzied
activity, it culminates in a big snore-fest where the puppies use each other as
pillows.
Now that the whelping box has an
extension, the puppies have room to run laps. They use the original portion as
their lounge where they sleep, play, dine and cuddle with each other. The addition
which is lined with unprinted newspaper and shredded paper is used as a gym
when it’s clean and afterward for “relief”.
There’s no question that
meal-time is a highlight for the puppies. Every time the jumbo bowl in the
shape of a ring makes its appearance, most leap to attention and make a
bee-line for it. Sometimes various spots get so crowded that we have to
air-lift one or two of the little minions to the other side of the bowl just to
be sure everyone fits. Once all the bellies are filled and the little ones have
licked the excess off their neighbour, this activity is also capped off with a
nap.
It seems like the happiest one of
all as of late, is Heidi. With each of the puppies’ twenty-eight pointy little
teeth coming in, we’re sure that the whelping box containing the three hundred
and thirty-six razor sharp teeth was beginning to represent a little torture
chamber to her. Now that the gang is enjoying three daily meals of mush, Heidi
gets a well-deserved reprieve from her responsibility as the milk-truck
operator. But mom is still a good sport by providing her little family with the
occasional supplement and is herself occasionally rewarded with any mush the
puppies might have left over for her – a hit and miss proposition at the best
of times!
In the meantime, the gang is
spending their time just being puppies, wishing upon a star that all their
little puppy dreams will come true.
That’s it for now,
but be sure to join us next week for another heart-warming installment of
“Puppy Tales”.
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