There are 6 days between the Raven boy and her 2 adopted Leti duo. I want you to know as soon as Raven's boy opened his eyes, he has been attempting to play just as hard as the other 2. I find it to be amazing. as the youngest of the entire crew, if anyone can make up the 6 day difference between Leti's and him - he can. I see it daily. I expected he had to get older to minimize that gap. This is interesting as we have never merged pups almost a week apart at this stage. We usually wait till over 4 plus weeks to merge pups.
The goal was to not have Raven's singleton as a rolly polly unsocialized pup. They need interaction to learn. Mom's do a fair bit of that but nothing like pups your age to help you along.
Today they also got new digs - what I call no whelping box in a contained xpen. No one made a peep. They just took it in stride and played. It was such a positive experience for both crews that went through this today.The apricot and cream actually tried to run and jump and play by herself. She was a riot.