Dachshund diaries day 8

Day 8 dawns but I have to tell you they have not yet opened their eyes, we kept looking but it hasn't happened yet and it's really late now: 10 pm.
Mum has started to feel more relaxed and often turns on her back to get a rest and remove her teats from reach....

The pups are also quite happy to either cuddle up or have quiet space all to themselves. All are growing and gaining weight and very noisy when hungry.

Alas the video clips we have been recording were not possible to put onto a website as they were not identified as separate 5 minute clips and thus were too much to copy and paste onto Youtube or Flickr but we will try again by recording one clip at a time and transferring each one in turn. Later in the week or next weekend maybe.

Lucy and Jack have started to open their mouths for reasons other than suckling and will lick a finger to explore. They also bark little high pitched barks in their sleep, not just the squaks of before.

Mum is eating twice to three times her usual meals but has decided she only likes to drink milk now, that is Whelpi a kind of puppy substitute milk no mere H2O for madam and no cow's milk either as dogs do not tolerate cow's milk very well.....

It means we are constantly making up milk as she isn't drinking enough.

Can you see little Tom? He's a bit dissappointed that mum rolled over so he can't reach a teat, but he is becoming a very good climber!

On a parting note all this puppy watching has had me sewing and finishing the backpack I started in June 2008... It has been in a W.I.P. ( work in progress) bag for many months and it was a New Year's resolution to get it finished and here it is: TA DAH!!!

The pattern is my own and is free on my crochet blog: www.merrysusan.blogspot.com

I used leftovers but I guess you'd need about 12 balls of DK cotton.( of 50 g balls with 80-120 m per ball)

See you again tomorrow? I hope at least one of them will have opened their eyes!

Dachshund Diaries day 3

Hello again : here they are at the end of day 3. They have had a day full of feeding and sleeping and are very clearly thriving on all of the lovely milk they are getting!


Just to help picture them better: JJ at the bottom of the photo above now measures about 18 cm from head to the beginning of his tail and this morning at 8 am he weighed: 396 grammes.

Little lady Lucy has gained a whopping 154 grammes from being born at 406 grammes she weighed in at 560 g's this morning!

Tom boy was 274 g's and this morning he'd gone to 376 g's , but this is getting too mathmatical?!!
They squeak and grunt and Tom especially has a knack of sounding like ''rubber bubbles being blown'' whilst feeding! It's really quite an orchestra when they are all at it : a puppy symphonie..

We have plans to link this blog to a video of them on YOUTUBE but bear with me as I'm not all that geeky-technical and Big JJ ( not puppy) may well need to help out a bit.
I've filmed some lovely bits yesterday but how to upload and then link them- ooops I'm just a wee bit too tires to figure that out just now.

We've been to the vet for check-ups and all is well , sound hearts and lungs, strong legs, no cleft palates, all that sort of thing - of course Tom sang loudly while being held and especially when there was a tiny stethoscope on his chest!!! Mum joined in with very loud whining and whistling as she was most concerned as to what was happening to her brood.

Mum too was examined and is just about 89% back to normal- apart from her enormous dangly teats of course...Can anyone tell me if they'll dissappear afterwards?

I have been at work for most of the day and missed them terribly at first then just got on with the nitty gritty, back at home I've been crocheting and finishing my backpack- TA DAHHH!!!

SEE BELOW, FRONT AND BACK VIEWS, the back has the straps. The front a flap which is very hard to distinguish from the rest until you ''spot'' the large ball for fastening it? Can you see it now? Can you? Keep looking!


I'll post the pattern onto here or Ravelry with a link , sometime in April probably.







More puppy development and stitchery later in the week, I can't promise tomorrow as I have a sleep deficit: still only getting 3 hours max per night....


OOOH just to let you know as I finish there's loud smacking, ''wet'' sounds behind me , where the pups are , Lucy has woken up and is feeding again,
yummy mummy; squelch squelch, smack, smack- lip smacking good....

See you soon I hope? Do please leave a comment, is there anyone out there??????!