Black Puppy 3 wks old

Orange Puppy 3 wks old

Lt. Blue Puppy 3 wks old

Red Puppy 3 wks old

Gold Puppy 3 Wks Old

Pink Puppy

2# 13oz

Purple Puppy 3 wks old

Green Puppy 3 wks Old

Yellow Puppy 3 Weeks Old

Rainbow Puppy 3 wks Old

The puppies are three weeks old as of this evening. The puppies were given Goat's milk a few times this week by muffin pan, but this morning they had their first saucer of gruel (puppy food, Goat's milk and water) and they all ate very well. I hope to start seeing a lot more weight gain once they are eating regularly, as their weights are still low compared to our previous litters.

They sure are active little girls now. Miss Lt. Blue is regularly escaping the box and Ms. Purple and Yellow and eager to join her. From the moment they opened their eyes, they turned into little doggies, biting each other, growling, wagging tails, barking and howling. We have a few howlers already. My son Alex howls for the puppies and like our pack, several of them join in and howl right along with him. It's the cutest thing.

Weights today:

Yellow 2# 14oz
Pink 2# 13oz
Rainbow 2# 4oz
Green 2# 5oz
Purple 2# 14oz
Gold 2# 6oz
Red 2# 10oz
Blue 2# 13oz
Orange 2# 6oz
Black 1# 15oz

Black Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 4oz

Lt Blue Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 14oz

Orange Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 11oz

Red Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 10oz

Gold Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 8oz

Purple Puppy 2 Wks Old

2lbs

Green Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 9oz

Rainbow Puppy 2 Wks Old

1lb 10oz

Pink Puppy 2 Weeks Old

1lb 14oz

Yellow Puppy 2 Weeks Old

2 lbs

The puppies are already two weeks old and the time seems to be flying by! Most of the puppies have newly opened eyes and are walking - if you want to call it that. They are "wobbling". The pups wobble over to me whenever I come near the box and they do the same when mom is standing outside the box. All of the pups are over a pound with a few over two pounds. They are still not caught up on the weight they lost that first week of life, but they will catch up eventually. The pups have had a couple of nail trims (boy that's fun!) and they are looking pretty darn cute if I do say so myself. We should be starting gruel food feedings in a week or so.

We have our CERF appointment for the litter scheduled on March 21st and I'm making their vet visit for March 27th, at which point they should receive their first set of vaccinations, get microchipped and have a physical exam.

We are allowing visitors at this point, but my weekends are fililng. Drop us a line if you want to come and visit. And no - we still have not asked for deposits for all of the pups yet as I'm seeking a breed potential home and would like to hold some options open for a little while.

Pups were a week old - last night and this morning. This is my first litter born overnight and on two different days and I can't believe how confused I am as to which day of their life it is sometimes!

Jade and her girls are doing awesome. All of the pups have now exceeded their birth weights and nobody has had any supplemental feedings for a few days. It doesn't look like they have gained much, but in their first few days all of them lost several ounces so they have in fact made a good comeback over the last few days. The pups are getting softer fur and when they nurse their heads are soaked with milk. They are so adorable!

I'm still in the process of making final puppy placement decisions.

I need some help with holding pups so that I can take some pictures today, but my son is being volunteered for the job as soon as he gets home from school. Pictures will be posted on our Printroom page this evening. Jade X Kodiak Feb 2006 Litter

One Week Weights:

Yellow 1# 6oz B.W. 13oz
Pink 1# 1oz B.W. 12oz
Rainbow 15oz B.W. 12.5oz
Green 14oz B.W. 11oz
Purple 1# 5oz B.W. 14.5oz
Gold 15oz B.W. 11oz
Red 1# 1oz B.W. 12.5oz
Lt. Blue 1# 3oz B.W. 13oz
Orange 1# 1oz B.W. 11oz
Black 13oz B.W. 9oz

The pups are now on their second full day of life and all ten girls appear to be doing pretty well. We have been giving bottle feedings to supplement mom's milk and had to tube feed one puppy last night, but today everybody is doing very well on their own. Their weights have all dropped a bit since birth, but we expect tonight's weigh-in to be a slight improvement. Most of them have fat bellies now and with Jade's milk finally coming in fully, we hope nobody will be skinny anymore in a day or two.

The puppies are beautiful and Jade is such a wonderful mom. Jade is well rested now and seems so content with her babies. She's venturing out of the room more often than she has with previous litters and appears to be more comfortable than ever as a mom this time around. (Not that she didn't do an excellent job before!) Jade has even enjoyed lots of puppy visitors already, little kids, big kids and adults alike. She's such a sweet girl!

Twelfth puppy born at 8:13am. Tawny female with black masking, weighs 9 oz. Little, but doing great. Black Collar. Born at home - yeah!

There is only one puppy left. He or she has not been born. Our vet recommends that if she does not have this puppy at home by 10am, we should return for one more shot of Oxytocin and if that doesn't work, we need to do a C-section to retrieve this puppy. We hope this puppy will make it and hope everybody will think good thoughts for us. And last but not least, Jade is tired, but doing well and after being awake for 30+ hours, I'm right there with her! Thankfully my good Chinook friends and family were here to help out!

Eleventh puppy born at 6:42am is a tawny female with black masking, weight 10.5 oz. Her collar color is Orange. She was born at the vet's office.

Tenth puppy born at 6:35am was a silver fawn female, weighing 10.5 ounces. She is wearing the light blue collar. She was born directly after the stuck puppy and needed some extra help getting going. This puppy was born at the vet's office.

At 5:30am, after the eighth puppy, we decided to take Jade into the vet for Oxytocin. She received three shots and with forceps, we were able to deliver a hydrops puppy. This puppy was a stillborn tawny male. The next two births follow...

The eighth puppy was stillborn at 3:39am. This was a silver fawn male, 12 oz.

Seventh puppy born at 12:17am. Tawny female with black masking, 12.5 oz. Wearing Red Collar. Doing good.

Sixth puppy born at 11:25pm. Tawny female with black masking, weight 11oz. Gold collar. Doing fine -strong eater.

Fifth puppy born at 11:05pm. Tawny female with black masking, 14.5 oz. Purple Collar. Doing great.

Fourth Puppy born at 10:53pm. Silver Fawn Female, 11oz. Green Collar. Doing great.

Third puppy born at 10:43pm. Tawny female with black mask, 12.5oz. Rainbow Collar. Doing great.

Second puppy born at 10:27pm. Silver Fawn female, 12 oz. Pink Collar. Doing great.

First puppy born at 10:02pm. Tawny female with black masking, 13 oz. Healthy and good!

Labor began at about 2 am on February 2nd. We are still waiting for the first pup to arrive.

2pm - No puppies yet, but still in early labor.