02.14.10

It’s about time for an update

Posted in News at 16:44 by nikki

Well, I don’t know what to write about there has been a bit going on but not much really. Just feedings all day and night and luckily the nightly feedings are down to one the past couple days. They seem to be fine for about 5 hours sometimes six during the night which is awesome. I’m looking forward to starting them on some food next week so the bottle feedings will no doubt be less frequent. I will say that I think Skella has been giving them a bit of milk herself lately because they often refuse their bottle after being on her teats and they look full afterwards. Poor Tryggur seems to have a belly ache most times after he’s finished drinking, he will drink until he practically bursts and we have to cut him off but most the time we don’t cut him off soon enough and he whines for the longest time and can’t get a comfy position to sleep. Don’t know what to do for him, tried rubbing his belly and of course he always gets burped after his bottle but none the less he often looks like a beached whale.

We thought he was whining to get out of the whelping box because he wouldn’t like to pee in the box, whenever we took him out he’d walk over to the paper on the floor and go there. So we moved them to the puppy play pen so they can leave the box to do their business (I can’t remember but I think it’s possibly earlier than our other litters). I remember the other litters trying to climb out of the whelping box but these ones didn’t do that, they weren’t big enough yet. So yes I think they got into the living room extra early. Skella seems to be happier with it this way too, it means she doesn’t have to be torn between being in the room with the puppies by herself or with us in the living room. I think part of Tryggur’s whining now is because he can’t walk on the slippery floor. I think he is going to be a bit like his mom and get frustrated rather than try to figure things out on his own.

The other pups are all doing great and they don’t whine much, are very determined and figure things out by themselves. Like how to climb in and out of the whelping box, it’s not high up but they get their feet stuck on one side and had to figure out how to push themselves over. Hard to explain, hehe  Smart puppies no doubt about it.

Well, Rúnar is in Reykjavík today and I’m alone on Valentine’s day and tomorrow I’ll be alone on my birthday while he’s at work. Oh well, not that I wanted to celebrate my birthday anyway but it would have been nice to have a few hours together. We used most the day yesterday cleaning, moving the puppies and I got to sleep. I had a bad night the night before and the pups would not drink so didn’t get much sleep and Rúnar got up around 8 and took over so I could go to bed.  Slept half the day of course or until 2 p.m. so there wasn’t much of the day left to do anything special.

I’m having trouble with the fact that people always seem to call when I’m feeding the puppies (half the time they dilly dally so much that it takes me an hour to feed them all) or clipping their nails or doing something else that I can’t just put down and answer. Hopefully my friends understand, I know it sounds strange that I should be so busy with a litter of puppies because most people don’t have to worry about them at all for the first few weeks. We definitely did not get our “resting period” with this litter and now the fun begins. Time to teach them stuff and unfortunately the play pen gets so much more dirty than just the whelping box so it’s time to have the mop on hand. Seems when it’s not something going on with the puppies then I have to take care of the older dogs…never ending story.

Took a bunch more photos and put them in the album and tomorrow I’ll start a new album already. It is very worrying that the market is so slow these days, I really wanted to try to find homes in Iceland so that the owner’s could come and visit them a bit the last few weeks they are here but time is really flying and oddly enough when I didn’t have a litter then no one else had one either and so as soon as we decide to try again and have one then every body and their uncle has a litter at the same time. Unbelievable the amount of puppies available or on the way these days. Not just our breed either.

Thought this was just too cute, little Tumi is such a fun character already one of my favourites.

Klói likes the new arrangements, means he can keep a close eye on his offspring and make sure they behave themselves.

Birta got to help Skella as soon as they came out to the living room. For some reason Birta and Skella have always been pals, I think they are alot alike and understand each other well.

This little girl is making it impossible not to fall in love with her! I’m so wondering if I should change her name to Tásla Birta.

My allergies have been bad, sneezing, runny nose and even had an mild asthma attack yesterday morning. Don’t know if it’s because of the pups, the stress for lack of sleep or the fact that I found green and white fuzzy mold growing in the window sill behind the blinds the day before, seems the window had some condensation and was closed off by the blinds so when I decided to open the window I got this shock. I’m allergic to mildew and that could very well be why I’ve always felt a bit “stuffed up” in that room. Hopefully it’ll not come back, we made sure the blinds don’t go all they way down to the sill any more. Eczema is also back and I blame that on washing my hands all the time, this bottle feeding means I have to wash them even more than I did with other litters. Oh the joys of having dog allergies and a love of breeding! I’m thinking Rúnar was probably right that having a dishwasher is a MUST for me, didn’t think I’d ever admit it but I had no eczema while we had it and I do miss having one.

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