Today the puppies have had my special “Puppy Swill” twice and they will have it again before I go to bed.Puppy Swill consists of Goats Milk, Dried Milk, and Purina Puppy Chow (melted in hot water) and it all looks like mush that is runny and it is served warm to the puppies. They LOVE it!!!
When I enter the door with it I call “pup, pup, pup, pup, ” in a high pitched voice. This way the puppies learn to come to me latter on and that coming to me is a good thing! Warm food! They will never forget that! So when they are 8 weeks old and leave here they come to “pup, pup, pup, pup ” and the new families can add “come” and pretty soon they can drop the pup,pup, pup, and if they need it in the mean time they have a recall on their puppy!
It is cold here today in the 30’s and I have the heat on in the puppy room. But when they eat this young they are messy and get quite wet so I have a warm blanket for them ready as they finish their food and pretty soon they all “Pile” in on each other and get warm! I kinda lay beside them and snuggle with them for added warmth (yeah that’s why I do it!) And while they are getting warm they crawl all over each other so the first pups in get disturbed, and find it hard to sleep! It is all so interesting to watch and be a part of. Some of the puppies snuggle with me others do not find me because they are on the bottom of the pile or on the fringes.
This is a great time for me to spend one on one up close with the puppies!
I LOVE Puppy Piles!
