Puppies : Kalahari's B-litter : Week Five (5/2/06 - 5/9/06)

The puppies now consistently go in and out through the doggie-door to go potty outside in the pine shavings. We moved the pine shavings outside about six days ago, and it took them about a day or so to get the hang of how to use a doggie door.

They go up little steps on the inside out the door and then down little steps on the outside to get to the box with wood shavings.


The pups get regular outings into the main back yard now where they play, rough and tumble, and run around to their hearts' content!

They like staying out late in the evening when it's nice and cool, and come inside later in the night, unless it rains, in which case, they all come tumbling back inside. They don't mind the noise, they just don't quite like getting wet - yet!

Deia has completely recovered from her bout of mastitis and still lies down regularly to let the puppies nurse on her.

They are pretty much completely weaned at this point, but still like to nurse on her. They eat about five to six times a day at this point.

Here's one comfortably asleep on her foot after finishing up a nursing session.

More photos (thanks to Jewl Wall for some of them) of the pups are below...