Fast Food For The Poetry Club

Haiku's pups make very short work of their first meal of puppy formula and mashed kibble!  And seemed to have been left wanting more...

  

Any uncertainty as to the purpose of the fragrant mush was quickly put to rest!

"And for the second course?"

"Please, Sir...May I have some MORE???"

"I think there is a tasty morsel behind your ear."

Who, me?

"O, Wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?"                                           --Shakespeare

Dinner-Drunk

    Fast Food (Haiku)

Fast food tastes so good

Its probably bad for you

But good for your soul

                -- Allen Steble

Another "Lap-radoodle", for sure!

Vixen's Red Alert -- Run of the House

Vixen's pups are as bright and shiny as new pennies!

Cosmo is not convinced that they are entitled to run-of-the-house yet

Haiku's Poetry Club Opens Their Eyes

Haiku's pups are greeting the glorious morn with newly-open eyes...                            

 Let Beauty awake in the morn from beautiful dreams,

Beauty awake from rest!

Let Beauty awake

For Beauty's sake

In the hour when the birds awake in the brake

And the stars are bright in the west!

                               

                                 --Robert Louis Stevenson

The puppies get used to being handled (gently) by Haiku's human kids!

Haiku is relaxed knowing that her babies are well looked after! (And not just a little proud!"

Truffle's Chocolate Treasures

Truffle was very nervous about what was happening. She paced, and dug nests in all of the dogs' beds, finally settling on Cosmo's special bed--next to my bed.  Sorry Cosmo, but lucky for me, as in spite of labor signs from 7 PM onward, her first pup did not make her appearance until after 8:00 AM.

Truffle is alert and waiting...

...but for exactly what, she doesn't know!

And, after a long night, her curiosity is satisfied!

Truffle and her three newborns

 

Truffle is hoarding her pups, worried that someone might take her new treasures away from her!

"You mean I can keep them?!"

(Truffle is amazed by her own handiwork)

"Aren't they lovely?"

Red Alert!: Vixen's New Pups

Vixen lost no time in presenting us with her 6 beautiful red pups.  She "told" us that she was ready to go, and sure enough, five girls and one little boy were born late in the evening and right into the (very) early morning of her due date. An experienced mama, Vixen set right to work cleaning and feeding her new babies.

We work hard with warm towels to dry off the newborn pups...

...but mama does such a thorough washing-up, that we have to start all over again.

With three pups already born and nursing, Vixen takes a vanilla ice cream break! Ice cream provides, extra calcium, some sugar, and protein to mama and to the unborn pups too. 

Healthy puppies have a strong sucking instinct right from birth

5:00 AM -- I think that's all of them!