And This Little Pig said Puppies One Week Old

Yes can you believe it, the pups are one week old, and doing fabulously well. Evie is such a good mum, considering the extreme heat we have had. Officially 12 days straight of over 40C, and tonight at around 6pm it started to rain. We were all outside, and I can tell you one minute there was heat and humidity, and the next a southerly wind. Humidity just went, the temperature dropped, and I got to switch the air-conditioner off, and open some windows. Can you hear the Alleluia chorus :D

Well before I show you the pups, Meah and Quincy wish to enter a protest that they have been feeling rather left out :( Acutely I think there was a demand in there somewhere.

So as you can see they have not been doing without.

Meah making sure I am only taking her photo, not trying to nick her treat.

Quincy doing roughly the same thing, and...

...making sure no-one is sneaking up behind her.

I know it's blurred, but isn't this a great shot, and no her tongue is not forked :)

And they called it puppy love...

A group shot taken 30 minutes ago, all relaxed, and for the first time in their very short lives the puppies did not have a fan on them or air-conditioning.

And these two were taken ten minutes ago, all lined up at the milk bar.

Don't you just love the little rolls of 'condition' down their necks.

Now Danni my love you were worried about my excess white comment. The Australian breed standard states... "All colours are permitted but no white permissible, save for a small patch on chest which is permitted but not desirable." This means no piebalds oh I would love to breed one!

All it means is that they technically cannot be shown. The black and tan boy has no white, and one of the black and tan girls has a small narrow strip of white on her chest as does one of the chocolate boys, and the last born black and tan girl has a big strip of white on her chest and her white toes are a no-no (me personally, I think they are so cute) and the other chocolate boy has white on his chest that looks like a mathematics symbol :) When we breed, we aim for puppies with great temperaments, home reared under foot, who will make wonderful family members, occasionally we have a puppy go for show, but prefer family homes.

When Sue calls in again, I will get her to hold each of them individually, and take their piccies. Also sorry no stitching, it has just been way too hot.

Until next time... LiBBiE in Oz