...and then from around twelve days their eyes open, they begin to hear and move around on all fours. This is the time I enjoy the most. Its amazing too to watch how Winnie now manages them. She spends more time away . Sleeps outside the whelping box and staggers the feeds to a more structured timetable rather than on demand.My job gets harder as now weaning begins.Cleaning up and more emphasis on socialising and exposure to all sorts of sights and sounds becomes part of their everyday life.
I've been watching them for 3 weeks now and the science and art of puppy picking never gets any easier but is still such a brilliant excuse for time wasting. Hours and hours of puppy gazing and I never tire of it.I change my mind a hundred times or more in my decision as to which girl I'll keep.
In the end I know it'll be the one I originally was drawn to. As I believe that in spite of studying all the puppy puzzle books and listening to the science of picking at six hours, six weeks ,six months etc. ..there is something unquantifiable and unmeasurable that draws me in that final choice. It's the thing that you search for when judging a line up of dogs in the show ring. You may only feel it for a second but it makes your heart skip and no matter how many times you look back over that line of dogs your eye is drawn to that one.That is what I base my final decision on in the puppy-picking puzzle..
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