proper dogs now?

A snap from the weekend. As you can see, the puppies have got some poise now. They can cover the ground pretty quickly, fight and bite, all in play so far.

Now that they are eating solid food, their weight gain has increased substantially. Mum still likes to be involved at mealtime, but can be more of a distraction than a help.

We've re-arranged the house twice over the weekend to give the puppies more room. They now have 2 large cages either end of one wall, with a 6' x 4' run in the middle.

Keeping track of where the puppies have gone is another challenge, behind furniture, curtains, computers etc. and when the time is right they fall asleep wherever they stop.

Baileys is great with her babies and Brandy stays well out of their way but Blue the cat has yet to decide how he'll deal with the pups. Most of the time he is fine, very tolerant and curious, but on Sunday morning a posse of pups had him backed up under a chair and eventually he came out fighting. Puppies scattered in all directions as he let them know who was boss...