It is amazing how much they have changed in just 4 days. They are all plumped up and no longer look like rodents. Now they look like little piglets. All of them are now over 1 pound. The largest is a female and she weights 1lb 7 oz. The smallest is a little girl at just 1 lb. Today I spent alot of time just watching them. It gets to be kind of addictive even though they don't do much at this point. The following photos are a sequence I shot over two minutes of the same 4 puppies. They did alot of repositioning before they found just the right huddle.
I wasn't the only one watching the puppies today. Tori (our Black Lab) camped out on the couch for the day and watched from there. Last year she would have been in the whelping box. This year she is giving Tiga some space.
There was one more spectator at the whelping box today. Charlie. Charlie will turn one on 5/18 and is Tiga's son from her first litter. He is being trained to be a service dog and we are his foster family. I think it has been hard on him not having all of Tiga's attention, and not having all of mine. I keep telling him next week will be better. In looking at this next picture I think it is amazing that those little pups will look like Charlie is just one year.
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