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Day 36 — Let the Play Continue!

By Galen|2018-11-04T15:40:03-08:00October 29, 2018|dachshunds|

It's Monday and the start of MUNI's fifth week! She weighed 2 pounds, 14.4 ounces at 8:20, and seems very comfortable with her full figure. The morning activity of practicing play was truly exhausting for Mom and puppy. Gnawing at ears and waving your front paws at the adults is very tiring! Day 36 - The Pack that Naps Together... The challenge today is to keep the puppy-sized tennis balls in the vicinity of the puppy and not allow Apex to run off into the back yard with all three. I decided that we'd give up one to [...]

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Day 35 — MUNI Learns to Play

By Galen|2018-11-04T14:34:37-08:00October 28, 2018|dachshunds|

We remember that when the whelping box comes to the kitchen, it's a time of quick development for puppies. Today exemplified the fast-paced world of a developing bitch! MUNI was alert and inquisitive from the start of the day. Mother Zenith kept her close, but there was a gleam in her eye for her morning iPhone portrait. Day 35 - Mother and Daughter captured on Geoffrey's iPhone When I returned from church mid-afternoon, MUNI definitely had gained a new skill: play! Day 35 - We will Call it Play. MUNI Growls at Mom, Incited by Geoffrey's FingersClick [...]

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Day 34 — A Saturday at Home with the Pack

By Galen|2018-10-31T12:19:14-07:00October 27, 2018|dachshunds|

MUNI gained only an ounce today to 2 pounds, 13 ounces. The leisurely progression reflected the laid-back nature of the whole day. Grandma SeQueL made sure everything was orderly for the stay-at-home day for the girls... Day 34 - Grandmother Inspects Don't forget to click this picture... or any blogged pic... for a larger size photo! ... even if Geoffrey and I went out mid-day for a cooking class and memorial service (two separate events!). Our absence, from 11:30 to about 4, was the longest that MUNI has ever gone without human supervision. She was not stressed by [...]

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Day 33 — Widening Our Social Circle

By Galen|2018-10-31T09:57:53-07:00October 26, 2018|dachshunds|

Now that MUNI is centrally located, she can be visited more easily. We're happy that people want to see her because she -- and all puppies -- need socialization. Today our first outside-the-pack visitors accepted an invitation to visit. Day 33 - Carrier Sterre-Salazar meets MUNI and Mother Zenith Click on the photograph for a larger version A friend from church, Carrie, was MUNI's first visitor. I'd locked SeQueL, Paris, and Apex out of the kitchen to keep the commotion down. They were behind a dog gate in the back hall. Zenith stayed with MUNI. When Carrie came [...]

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Day 32 — Expanding Horizons

By Galen|2018-10-28T09:39:59-07:00October 25, 2018|dachshunds|

Wow! Now that the whelping box is in the kitchen, MUNI is really the center of attention. Day 32 -- A Confusion of Dachshunds All of the adult girls feel the need to wander into the whelping box and either clean, lick, and guard or else simply greet and sniff. The configurations change, but the quarters are close and there is lots of intrapack contact. Good canine socialization for MUNI! Day 32 -- A Narrower Confusion of Dachshunds The day was a lovely sunny October San Francisco day. Without getting agreement from Geoffrey, I decided that [...]

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Day 31 — Moving Day

By Galen|2018-10-27T18:28:53-07:00October 24, 2018|dachshunds|

We thought we might move the whelping box into the kitchen over the weekend. That would make MUNI more integrated into our lives and give her an idea of what humans do. We think that MUNI can handle the additional draft of the kitchen, especially since the heater can follow her there. But, we have been busy or the moment just didn't seem right, here it is Wednesday, and the TV Room is still the Puppy's Room. So, the day started out with the now-traditional weighing. Day 31 -- How We're Weighed This morning, MUNI was a respectable [...]

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Day 30 — Staying Ahead of Mom

By Galen|2018-10-27T12:36:51-07:00October 23, 2018|dachshunds|

MUNI first sampled solid food on Day 28, two days ahead of Zenith's first plunge into a food bowl (according to the photo record). Back in 2013 Zenith was still using her puppy name "Janice", and wasn't eager to give up her mother's milk, but we thought it was time for her to try. MUNI is similarly hesitant to stop relying on her mother's milk. She waddled up to the food bowl on her own a couple days ago. But, since then she hasn't been enthusiastic about solid food. Today MUNI licked -- and maybe chewed -- the sides of [...]

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Day 29 — Feeling Secure

By Galen|2018-10-27T12:35:18-07:00October 22, 2018|dachshunds|

MUNI is getting used to being manhandled, and seems to take it in stride. The start of her fifth week was happily boring. Day 29 -- Security She was up to 40 oz at 7:55 this morning. Still growing a bit over an ounce a day! We brought her into the brighter kitchen for the day's glamour shots. Day 29 -- An Adult-Sized Yawn Good girl!

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Day 28 — A Taste of Food and Friends

By Galen|2018-10-24T19:18:50-07:00October 21, 2018|dachshunds|

I had to post a bulletin this morning because of an unintentional event: Day 28 - Puppy Progress Bulletin! Zenith decided that she couldn't wait for breakfast in the kitchen, she wanted to be closer to MUNI. So, I put Zenith in the whelping box and brought a bowl of the puppy food she's been eating to her. MUNI smelled the food and waddled over to the bowl. The two of them ate together for a while -- there are no good pictures because of the low lights and all you see in the shots are back of heads, but [...]

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Day 27 — MUNI Meets Her Grandmother and Aunt!

By Galen|2018-10-20T19:33:30-07:00October 20, 2018|dachshunds|

I came back home from the gym this morning, and Geoffrey announced that he'd introduced MUNI to Aunt Apex in the whelping box. The meeting went well. When he brought Apex into the TV room and approached the box, Geoffrey said that Zenith was in the box with MUNI, wagging her tail in greeting. Apex sniffed and met MUNI. They seemed to get along. Geoffrey reported that he removed Apex only when she started digging at the towels trying to rearrange the decor. Later I was invited in to witness MUNI's meeting with her grandmother. Day 27 -- SeQueL [...]

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