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the camera people were delighted to see earlene here
overnight tending to chaos and her litter.. she observed something -- as we
have many times before--- that we really must pass on in keeping with our
reality performance..
w/r/t mothers wizzing the pups.. if you sit a pup on
his/her rear ( on a wash cloth is good-) to help the moms with this wizzing and
let mom clean them by lapping the pee.... when they are finished, the moms'
take one final lap across the pup's face--
" There - I am done"----this is a fact of puppy
raising.
just thought you needed to know that
that litter is 3 weeks now-- so time has come for the circus
to start... otherwise known as smearing time as opposed to feeding
time
it can get messy and the whole house will smell like goats
milk----- an odor i would love to wish on an irs agent bent on discovering
whether i actually raise dogs.
object being to start them on a spoon--- you have to get the
concept of ... down.. lap food... as opposed to up nurse. we start with a soup
spoon only because you can chase them with it an d minimize the
spillage.
after which we can go to a dish.
time has come for my tirade on the poorly designed dog
dishes.. if you take a normal looking stainless steel dog dish wider at the
top and jump up and down in the vicinity of the dish... eventually you will
crack your shin as you hit the edge and it flips and whacks you in the leg..
happy dogs jump around food dishes--- i have seen one very confused pup who
figured he was attacked by the dish. soooooo most of our dishes fit exactly
in some bucket or holder which solves the problem.. but for wee pups.... i
have some small dishes that flare out at the bottom.. these are what they
graduate to after the spoon dribble.
after they master dish wading... we then graduate to spoon
feeding canned food-- one at a time.. then 2 at a time with their name
called--- and wait often used... and they are on their way to a finished
service dog.
and you thought dog training meant marching in
circles.
this is carlene's lazy day dog training school.
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it should be mentioned that when we start feeding at about 3
weeks, the moms stop cleaning up after them this has it's own recognizable
odor.
along those lines there is a product NI-712 from neuron
industries ( or something like that)-- it is an umbelievable odor killer-- who
would know better than someone with 23 great danes in th ehouse??? they now
sell smaller containers --- but it was over $100 a gallon and worth every
penny
i talked to the office ( in arizonz??) and they said they
use so many oranges that the juice is the by product.
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i use caps/big font -- because i am seeing double with at
least one eye. soon...i must away to the eye dr...
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in an effort to get my own dogs back into the house... the 2
litters are in the tv room with their moms- and 5 in the house.. 23
danes... know pf any guiness record???
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today schedule--
i dunno
becky was supposed to be here yesterday and i don't think she
made it
the fire is lovely--- maybe lovely enough to do accounting
and stay in...
