Thursday 23 April 2020

Where Is Your Collar?

Little Ginger was naked this morning - the first collar pulled off.  Now I'll have to watch them, hope to god nothing gets eaten. Pups have also got to the stage of eating their own poo, god I hate it, but it happens with every litter. It's now a race to clean ever poo before they eat it, impossible obviously overnight!
This morning we changed the routine and all went out after breakfast, the weather is good so why not?  But of course house training really can't be taught till 10 - 12 weeks when voluntary control of urination and defecation begins.
I can't help but worry about their future, they are missing out on so much socialising. By 4 weeks we usually have a queue of visitors on a daily basis. The lack of human contact early on must surely affect the character and confidence? I fear the owners will have more work on their hands than I usually like to give them, but what can I do? These circumstances are beyond my control. If I knew this was coming I would never have mated her, but we can't send them back can we!
The conversations re Biscuit continues, I've now changed my mind, I'm almost certain he's a LSH ... but as I said before he's a lovely pup so I'm happy to be proved wrong one way or another. I'm just so fascinated by people on Social media who KNOW he's a S/C .. and the others who KNOW he's a LSH ... when really I'm here with him and and I didn't suspect him till he was about three weeks. Other who really are knowledgeable are also happy to say "I'm Not Sure, " .. but know it alls always know!