Our AKC Whippets

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Enjoying the sun!

It is a warm sunny day here in NC! The perfect day to boost that vitamin D!

Katherine, Anne and Jet

from left to right
Katherine, Anne, Jet

Anne

Katherine in the back

Jet

Echo

Jacob

Dash

Dash and Echo

Sonny and Coby

It is time to use the bathroom elsewhere!

Yesterday was a very exciting day for the puppies! They are almost 4 weeks old now, and it is time for them to leave their nest to go potty in a designated potty area. Ada can no longer keep up with the cleaning of the nest, so from now and on it will be my responsibility... yay!
The puppies will still spend most of the time in their crate where they sleep, snuggle, nap and play every once in a while, but half of the crate area and 50% of the run area is intended to be used as potty. Getting them used to a potty area will help tremendously with the housebreaking once they go to their new homes, as puppies generally don't want to soil their nest.
This is the first transitional set up which will only last for a week or so, because then we will also give them an additional area for food, water and play. Until then the puppies will be given the time to learn the basics of potty training and house breaking, which will help us to raise our puppies in a clean environment.

Starting today, the puppies will also get limited time to roam in our puppy room (which is our sunroom) and discover the world outside their area. This is a very important part of socialization and over time we will increase the stimuli, change rotations and give each puppy some individual time with us.

I was also planning to add new snapshots tonight, along with a video of every single puppy! I bet you can't wait to watch them!

Monday, November 10, 2014

Katherine was the first one to escape the crate...

... but she was quite frightened once she was out there :)

Age appropriate toys

My son decided that it was time for the puppies to receive some age appropriate toys! He gladly shared his cars, trucks and train tracks with them :)

Saturday, November 8, 2014

single shots at 3 weeks

We have a lovely fall weather here in NC today, so I took the opportunity to take the puppies outside for their single shots. Some of the puppies enjoyed the attention, while some others didn't like it too much. But I was planning to take a few snapshots over the weekend to make up for those puppies who didn't cooperate too much today ;) Enjoy!

Coby