Five Easy Pieces

Is it really 5 weeks? Hard to believe. Halo is completely recovered from her surgery, seems to be a little depressed since she's essentially been house bound for the last several weeks, a prisoner in her home. Soon they will be weaned and she can join us at the park. Her milk should dry up very quickly.

I had to express milk the other day because one of her ducts seemed to be backing up into her abdomen so there was me, sitting on the floor with a cup and milking Halo. She stood patiently while I expressed 3/4 of a cup of milk from the boobie. That's a lot of milk for one duct and the danger in not expressing is mastitis. I poured the milk into the puppies lunch gruel and not my coffee.

It's playtime! Rio and Elsa just before a tackle. They are starting to get more and more scrappy the more they grow. It essential they learn dog cues from each other and that socialization is continued into adulthood.

They learn to back off, stand up for themselves, invite play, and how to get along in a group - well, maybe Elsa in the background there needs some tutoring. Missy(pink) and Hunter (white) are clearly very good students.

My pick Archer doing the ever popular paw wave. Or he is a gentleman inviting me to dance ... I accept.

Sometimes they'll be running and playing and when suddenly they freeze as though they just realized they've forgotten something but are not sure what. This is Blue and Bridget(Invictus Bridget Jones' Diary) taking a moment to reflect on the past 5 weeks of life ... it was a very brief pause.