PUPPY CAM! 

As a by-product of our closed circuit tv system, we are able to offer 'puppy cam' - live streaming video available for you to watch online!  We won't be broadcasting 24/7, but will try to broadcast often.   The photo at the bottom of this page shows one of our nursery rooms including the whelping box. 

April 22:  

Solace's pups are getting very active.   They play, wrestle, chase, and bark at each other.  You'll see them romping around the nursery room.   Some areas of the floor are lined with newspaper now, and the pups love to grab paper and rip it up.  If you tune in right after I clean up the room and put down fresh paper, it'll look fairly tidy.  Check in a couple hours later and you'll the the paper ripped up!   Solace can jump across a low divider into another room.  She can visit her puppies whenever she wants, but also has the chance to get away from them for some much needed 'quiet time'.   She will spend less and less time with her puppies over the next few weeks - this is just part of the normal weaning process.  The puppies are still nursing, but are getting most of their nourishment from softened puppy food.  Feeding time is usually around 8:30 - 9AM and again at 10 - 11PM.  They also have an afternoon meal but the time varies on that.  The saucer shaped bowl has a raised center that (usually) keeps the puppies from wading into the food.

Jordan's pups have their eyes open, are up on their feet and are starting to interact with each other.  Jordan is a very attentive mom and takes great care of her puppies. Don't be alarmed if you see her pick up one of the puppies and carry it away!  Almost since birth, she has been taking puppies from the whelping box and leaving them in the nursery room.  I put the puppies back, she gets them out again!   She seems to be taking good care of both the puppies in the box and those she removes from the box, so I can't complain too much.  I just wish she'd put the pups back in the box after she's done with them! 

 

This photo shows a whelping box in one 
of our nursery rooms.  The puppy cam 
gives an 'aerial' view of the the box.