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Day 1
So far, so good. Everyone has gained, although the littlest one hasn’t gained as much as the others, I will make sure she gets some extra feeding time today. Nina and a puppy - January 16, 2010 Nina...
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It’s amazing how Nina has figured out what to do and how to organize herself. She has this way of lying down when she wants to feed them that makes it easy for them to find the milk bar (I don’t mean...
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Meet The Grublets!
Here they are: Puppy #1 (AKA “Jack”, since he has a white stripe on his chest), is a long tailed male: Puppy #1 Puppy #2 (AKA “Wee”, since she is the smallest) is a natural bobtailed female: Puppy #2...
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SuperDog…
AKA Early Neurological Stimulation started today. Today is day 3, and you do the exercises from day 3-16. It was interesting how they all responded a bit differently, some just accepted it, others...
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…on my work’s website anyway. Nina scrapes the puppies off herself when she climbs out of the whelping box (they have VERY strong suction power, you could probably climb up the side of a building using...
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Day 4
Day 4 Everybody grew nicely. Smallest boy from yesterday got his game eating face on and is now second-biggest (after Immelmann, of course, who is gigantic, I suspect he may not be a Vallhund at all,...
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The Classic “Roadkill” Position
Almost all Vallhunds will sleep in the “roadkill” (or “dead bug”) position at least sometimes. Nina has decided that nursing her babies in this position allows for the greatest possible combination of...
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Day 5
Day 5 Littlest girl Wee broke 300 grams today! With a bullet! She is 330 grams as of this morning! Day 5 Biggest boy Immelmann is a whopping 427 grams! Triangle boy and throat stripe boy also broke...
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So, the dog world is very, very small. Sometimes this can be bad, but sometimes this can be spectacularly good! It turns out that the Kate who’s in my Wednesday night agility class with GoGo the...
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After finally beating Wordpress into submission with the help of Educhalk.org, my blog has at last moved to its new home at alkemi.org/blog. I will leave this one up for now, but it will eventually go...
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