Puppies 1 Day Old

These first two pics are of the babies on their birthday.

The rest of the pics are taken at 1 day old.

All babies and mama are doing great. Healthy and eating up a storm. These little babies have grown and gotten fatter already! Pickles is being such a wonderful mother.

(I did not pose this, really... they love to snuggle mama. It is the sweetest thing!)

(More snuggle time!)

Well, we always said the first litter came out walking... and I have to say we had one puppy that almost did this time! #7 was half birthed with the sac broken already. He (or she) came out squeaking and trying to crawl his way out! It was the funniest thing. They are moving around like crazy; doing the 'army crawl'. It is actually sad to watch at times b/c two puppies will be snuggled all by themselves and then decide they want to see mama. That gets the other one moving too, but they just move in circles with each other trying to figure out where to go. I run over and help them when I see it. Pickles normally helps though when she notices they are having trouble and begin to squeak a lot!

We set up a 'mini trap' to the box to make sure the puppies couldn't get out, but something told me that they would succeed. And I was right. I was cooking dinner and looked over and saw puppy #1 (the largest and mostly white) crawling around the kitchen floor trying to figure out what to do. Poor little guy. So I figured I had to make some other 'gate type of thing' that will be easy for Pickles to get out of but keep the pups in. Let's hope it works for another week and then I'll make it bigger.


Here's a cute pic of our kitty cat, Ares.

Noodles sleeping on my pillow. I was tired after a long night and needed to take a nap yesterday (never did...), but I guess Noodles had a rougher morning... I think Pickles gets the rough prize though. Man, I hope I can handle delivery like her...