7 a.m. this morning, June 14
These puppies are doing extremely well and will be out of the whelping box by Monday of next week which is earlier than usual. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and they can spend a lot of time outside getting all the exercise they need. We will set up a large area on the grass with a couple of pop-up tents to give them shade.
Recent research has shown that rolling hills give the best exercise for puppies so we will try to get the tents set up in such a way that they can run up and down the small hills we have in our yard. What this same research indicated is that stairs are not good exercise for pups prior to three months. Don't know how valid this is, but rather than put them in the area we have for the adults with stairs and artificial turf, we will put them in the agility area of the yard.
