puppy time is over

The last pup left Friday, our home is quiet again.
Chimay and Gladdich were a bit down when Demi (Xin-Feng's Draupadi) left, but not for long. They have been playing a lot together the last days.
It is good to sleep in bed again instead of on the couch in the livingroom!

We heard back from all pups, all are doing well.

Demi (Xin-Feng's Demeter) has a great time with all the Shiba Inu's, we get regulair mail and photos, she loves to sleep with Daddy on the couch:

Desna (Xin-Feng's Desdemona) gave her Mom and Dad a hard time the first nights, but is behaving much better now.

No photos yet from Bobbie (Xin-Feng's Don Leo) and Dante (Xin-Feng's Dante).

Dao (Xin-Feng's Dao) lives with his aunt Ginger (Xin-Feng's Charming Ginger), here they are together in the kitchen.

And Demi (Xin-Feng's Draupadi) is with her family, like she was here, a joy to have around.

Gladdich the great

Gladdich is doing great with the pups. But he is a show-off, so when other people are watching he tends to be a bit more rough with the pups, so he is not allowed to play with the pups when we have visitors. But otherwise he is doing really great.

Here a video of Gladdich playing with Demi (Xin-Feng's Draupadi:


Meanwhile four pups have left, two rough girls still here. That is a lot less work as six, both for Chimay and us ;-)
Frank worked his first night and it went well. I survived the night alone very well too.

Gladdich does well with the pups and he does well working for me too. In the past weeks I had two panick attacks, while walking Chimay and Gladdich. Both times Gladdich calmed me down fairly quickly and Chimay did her job: she led me home.

the pups 7 weeks

Today I took the last photos of the pups on Franks lap. Next week the first pups are going to their new homes, the last one goes in two weeks time.

I also made a video of them all:


This litter was very early housebroken: at four weeks!
Two males did their last pee on the paper when they were four weeks and two days and two days later I removed the papers from to puppy-pen because they were useless.

But housebroken means we have to carry six pups from puppy-pen in the livingroom to bigger puppy-pen in the garden (and back), day and night... So we are happy the first ones will be leaving soon.

Frank has a job!

Franks health has greatly improved since he started taking Ritalin. In Rotterdam he used to lay in bed for 12 or even 13 hours a day. Now he sleeps about 9 hours and has more energy in the hours he is awake.
He applied for a job as night-guard at a home for young adults with disabilities in the autistic spectrum.

Today he started in his new job.
No "real" work the first two weeks, but meetings, introduction and instructions. The 17th his first nightshift. It feels a bit weird: after nearly 15 years Frank is working again, it will take some time to get used to it!

The pups keep me busy

The pups are over four weeks of age and keep me busy, leaving less time to do things like write my blog. Not only the pups keep me busy, people who come to look at them too.

Gladdich is a great help, the first weeks he helped cleaning, now he tries to teach them some manners.

The whelping box is put away, the pups have their puppy pen in the living room and a large one, with a big bench to hide and sleep, in the back garden.

They all come when I call "puppy, puppy, puppy", makes moving them easy. Now and then Don Leo stays where he is and refuses to move.

I put new photos each week on the website D-litter.

Chimay's litter

The puppies are one week old today.

We had a rough week, the delivery had been harder for Chimay than we thought and on Sunday the pups were fading.
Chimay laid curled up in the whelping box, because of the pain she had, so there were only a few nipples reachable for the pups.

Then we found out Chimay did not clean the litter well. I took the pups one by one on their back in my hands and held them before Gladdichs nose. He understood immediately what to do and cleaned the pups every two hours.
I fed some of the pups, the hungry ones, some goatsmilk.

Sunday afternoon the vet came, he gave Chimay a painkiller and antibiotic. Some hours later Chimay started to bounce back.

The following days Chimay got better and the pups gained some weight.

Today I took the first photos of the pups on Franks lap.

This time we named all pups right after they were born. With our previous litters we left it to their future owners to pick a name, but now we have to send in the form, with the names, within ten days after the pups are born.
The names of the pups and their origin are on the first page of the D-litter.