crazywomenkennels

Puppies are born tiny, blind, deaf,  with hardly any hair and  they are unable to regulate their own  body  temperature.  they are just little newborns that are  totally unable to care for themselves! 

   Below, momma giving birth               

They need their momma and also  almost constant supervision from the breeder to grow and thrive. 

    Below, just hours old                    

  Below, 1 day old, dried off and cleaned  and already filling out               

I call the babies "my potatoes" at this age, they are  just little helpless babies .... basically kept busy by just  sleeping , nursing and growing the next two weeks.

Often the puppies here are supplemented with a bottle to keep everyone fat and happy. 

The puppies dont  yet resemble  that  special puppy you are hoping to adopt and take home with you! IT TAKES TIME!! 

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 At about 4 weeks the puppies choose to leave their nest box often during the day  for  short adventures and are following mom around , testing out her dinner and the water bowl, stumbling around playing some with their siblings and their coats are starting to slowly grow...although the hair takes a few more weeks to really come in! They are cute, but dont yet resemble that furry baby you are waitng for ! 

Momma is teaching them manners, and they are starting to eat the "puppy mush" that they are fed several times a day. 

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AT 6 weeks their individual personalities are beginning to emerge and observations begin about each puppy so the puppy  that best fits the prospective owner is placed in the proper family.  They still wont have a large amount of coat yet, but it is coming!  The puppies get their first sets of shots at this time. 

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BELOW ARE SOME PHOTOS THAT PREVIOUS PUPPY OWNERS HAVE SENT US OF THEIR PUPPIES THAT WERE BORN HERE AT CRAZY WOMEN KENNELS! 

At about two weeks of age the heating pads that they have been sleeping on   have the temperatures lowered as the puppies no longer need to be kept quite as warm . The puppies eyes start to open, and they gain the ability to hear and to be able to control more of their movements, (They dont show   quite as  much random head bobbing  and body twitching after this age!)  

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 At three weeks they  are starting to  pay more  attention to their  surroundings, and reconize the people in their lives as friends to waddle up and receive a snuggle from.  They start to peek out from the nesting box. and occasionally snuffle around in the mommas food bowl...but no real teeth as of yet! 

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At 8 weeks..this is us!  We have  finally turned into puppies instead of potatoes! Now we visit the vet for a health checkup and another set of shots, are wormed again,  and we are ready to meet our new families! 

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          AND HERE WE  ARE !!!

This is one of our puppies that stayed for training , this picture is the puppy at  about 10-12 weeks of age. 

This is a professional photo that was taken of one of our babies.