I have dogs to groom and wash before departure today. So, blogs will be later. But I will let you know in a bit why the moving of 2 pups worked for everyone.
As you can see, Raven is a happy girl.
I take weights each morning and each night till about 2 weeks old and then I go down to once a day. Cinnamon's pups have been gaining like crazy despite 7 but she eats really, really well. Leti is a smaller gal and is actually smaller than Raven. Her pups were continually gaining but about 4/8oz daily. Nothing wrong with that but Leti is producing less milk. She has to be hand fed to eat well. As she goes and the pups eat more, she will produce more milk and eat better. I know this as this is what she did last time.
They all get to where they are meant to be eventually in weight and size.
With Raven she had so much milk from the get go. Raven ate like Cinnamon right out of the gate.
I took weights this morning. The 2 Raven pups from Leti that are now with Raven gained 1-4/8 oz and 1 oz in 24 hours. This is up from 4/8oz. Raven's boy gained 1 oz in less than 24 hours. The Leti pups that are with Leti gained from 7/8 to 1-5/8oz in 24 hours. This tells me, at this point in time, Leti has enough milk for 4 or there are some I want it all pups that were taking from the others. It is most likely the latter. LOL. Raven has enough for more than she has.
So, this all works. Interesting enough the 2 Leti pups are a similar size to Raven's lone boy. If you watch the videos, he crawls just like the older Leti pups. He is a strong one. He is also quite pretty.
Videos can be found here. I update as I have time.