Champagne Standard Schnauzers

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The puppies are growing and granny has a new shiny knee! Since granny is the photographer, webmaster and editor we have not posted since she went to get a brand new knee put in! Photography is a rather physical occupation, … Continue reading →

In our new home !

Exploring our new home

Lots of changes this week ! we had our first non-mom meal; that was pretty exciting and messy !

First Meal

Then we moved to our new accommodations – more room to play, new toys and a bathroom! Say what ?

The most fun is when the people come in with us !

Hello!

All over granny !

Playing with Granny

Michel teaching us to go to the bathroom !!

With ten puppies thing get a little ‘busy’

And then meal become a social event !

This is what you call a snack bar !

And we have lots of new toys !

New toys!

This is mine !

All new sensations !

Good bye ! See you next week !

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Presenting the crew!

On the eve of their 4th week birthday here they are:

Who is hiding

Question for this week: All the puppies are on the photo but one is hiding behing Ciara under the railing, can anybody guess who it is ? You can post comments this week!

First the girls:

MS Yellow

Ms Orange

Little faces !

This week I took a number of cute pictures, while they are not 3 weeks old yet they are becomming little dogs in their own right !

Can you find all ten of them? Have a good look the entire family is on that picture ! ( double click on the picture to get a larger version )

Where's Waldo !

Sometimes when Ciara gets in the whelping box after a little time out she litterally disapears under the assault of hungry mouthes !

To change their bedding, I now put all of them out on a blanket, well they come out on the blanket ! It takes no time at all for them to scatter all over even on the slippery wooden floor !

Let's Go See !

Here they are seconds before they decided to go explore ther room. We now have to put the half door in as they can climb out of the box!

Out we go !

They now see and hear me, so we can make noises to have them look up and give us precious little poses.

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After exploring the rest of the room we are back home in our new clean bedding !

Back Home

Ciara trying to contain the flood !

Ciara is still cleaning each and everyone of her pups. She will continue to do so as long as I do not interfere by feedint them myself. At that point I will get the ‘look’ saying, “you want to feed then, then you clean them”; then the games begin!

Here we are having a time before mom comes to feed us !

: All 10 of them

Total Bliss

After a good feed, there is nothing like a good rest !

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Two weeks already !

Ciara’s puppies were two weeks old yesterday ! Although there is a morning ritual where the blankets get changed, puppies get weighed and examined, collars adjusted; on a birthday day, we also have to add nail clipping !

Everyone get a nail clip, every week. Those little nails grow fast and as the puppies brace themselves on mom when feeding, it can get uncomfortable for Ciara to be stabbed by all these little sharp nails. A nail clipping involves cutting 180 nails !!

We also took everybody’s picture as their eyes started to open and almost everyone is walking on all four legs. It is funny to see them take a few steps and loose their balance and roll off! Undeterred, they right themselves and carry on !

The Party is on

These puppies are very animated, so trying to get a picture of a line up of all of them is nearly impossible. So here they are in groupings!

Mr Blue, Neon, Green & Navy

Here are the boys !

for those following them from the start, Mr Brown is now Mr Navy and Mr Black is now Mr Neon . The little velcro collars were neat but.. you need to wash them and I cannot see the collar on most of the pictures !

Mr Blue

Here is Mr Blue with his cute face and big eyes to see the world !

Formerly Mr Black, now Mr Neon this little guy is the darkest of the lot. As you can see on the group picture. Mr Neon looks a little sleepy because I took advantage of the fact they had just finished nursing and were a little less wiggly !