This crew turned 4 weeks old today. Here is the gallery of just them taken today.
They had their 1st adventure out of the pen today with the Saffron and Ella pups. To see the gallery, check out the Saffron blog. I put one link up of all 3 together as to not have you think there are 3 galleries only to find out I did only 1 of all 3 litters.
You should also check out the videos.
The pups did really well on their first adventure out. It is truly good that they got exposure to the other 2 litters. This is how we begin the conditioning and then merging of all 3 litters so they can play with each other without an issue. We have merged 10 day apart pups but usually this is done much later. When they are 7 days or less apart in age you can usually merge them when you start early. So we have begun.
If anything is like today, I think we will be successful. Our hopes is to get them together in 7 to 10 days. We shall see how it goes. This will be the time frame when they go upstairs together without moms at night. We do this to help them be able to separate from mom successfully. It also helps with their pad training and their ability to sleep through the night as time goes on.
This is the start of the journey and today was highly successful. We will do it again tomorrow. No matter how busy we are, this is critical to do, imho. Only from daily exposures can they gain a level of comfort ability. They are on their way!