Puppies nine days old

Here are the puppies doing what they do best at this age - eating and sleeping.

What size will they be?

So can we tell what size they will be from their weights now? I wish! No, even at eight weeks we can only have an informed guess but they often surprise us. Eddie looks like he is going to be the biggest and Lusa the smallest but it'll be interesting to see how they turn out.

Hav joy,
Rita

Wow! Are they putting on weight

Pictures will be up later this evening but here are their weights.

1. Deanna 264 g - 9.3
2. Lusa 258 g - 9.06
3. Nannie 282 g - 9.9
4. Cole 284 g - 10
5. Eddie 292 g - 10.3
6. Garnett 294 g - 10.33

Eddie, Granett and Cole have all their pigment in and the others are about 95 percent. They should double their birthweight by ten days or on Friday but I think they'll be there before then. Opal is a wonderful mom.

The puppies are growing

The weights for today are:
1. Deanna - 210 grams/7.4 oz (rounded off)
2. Lusa - 216 grams/7.6 oz (rounded off)
3. Nannie - 220 grams/7.8 oz (rounded off)
4. Cole - 210 grams/7.4(rounded off)
5. Eddie - 238 grams/8.4(rounded off)
6. Garnett - 232 grams/8.2 (rounded off)

Meet the offspring of the Prodigal Summer - names based on a novel by Barbara Kingsolver

In birth order:

Deanna Wolfe

Lusa Naluf Landowski

Nannie Rawley

Cole Widener

Eddie Bondo

Granett Walker