Look Ma! We can eat our own food!

The pups began the weaning process today. Most of what they get now is puppy food soup followed by a good drink from mom. Here is their first experience of non-mom food.



The best part of the day wasn't captured on video. Dawna is a great mom. And we have to keep her away from the pups right now to help with the weaning. They're allowed a good drink after they eat from the weaning gruel. But she wants to visit and it's good for the pups to have mama dog interactions. So we put a tee shirt on her and pulled it up at the back so the pups couldn't nurse. They couldn't.

Except... Well... These are smart puppies... They found the "trap door" at the back of the tee-shirt and figured out that they could enter that way. We had a hilarious ten minutes trying to get puppies out of the tee-shirt! They kept entering through the back-door--at the back of Dawna where the shirt was pulled tight but not enclosed. Several managed to crawl in the tee-shirt and all the way up to her front legs to nurse!

Back to the drawing board for the breeder-caretakers!