For the past couple days, Fury's been doing something weird/stupid. The puppies are weaned, right? They're 8.5 weeks old now. So then WHY is it, that Fury will go over to them and puke? She's been doing it for three or four days now. At first I thought it was an accident, but Casper reported that yesterday while I was gone, she went over to their pen when they were whining and puked. Of course, all the puppies love this if I don't catch it in time. Perhaps she wants to contribute to their gentle weaning as slow as possibly? I don't know how one can puke on command like that, but this Fury-behavior-thing is always proving to be interesting. I still think about how as soon as we picked her up from the airport after her trip to get bred how she would wander around the house grunting. Thought that was just going to be a new facet of hers, but nope. It was, "I'm pregnant, dammit."
I woke up this morning to the sound of Moto saying, "Feed me, love me." So I went out there to find just three puppies in the pen (remember that Rippa is now staying at Yishai's). My heart hurt a little because you know, I put a lot into the kids and now just three left. It was cool to log into Facebook to see excited posts and photos of the girls in their new homes, and Yishai calls first thing every day to tell me what he and Rippa are up to.
So here's all the video/photos from the last couple days, as promised. I wonder when Chris will finish processing Week 8 photos.
Photos from the morning before the big drive:
And then DURING the big drive:
Wherein I figure out that whiny puppies given noogies will shut up.
Getting to Darren and Dana's house:
Mirrors??
Piper gets brave.
Curry is just fine right here, thankyouverymuch.
Good night!And then seeing them off (no photos of that, actually, as it was just me and what's to see? Puppies in a crate at a counter?):
It is soooooooooooooo early.
LAX American terminal. See ya, kids.And now we have photos contributed by the new owners . . .
Here's Firma on the way home to Iowa from St. Louis. She was a worked puppy. Bekka tells me that she told her her name is Piper, so that's how we'll refer to her from now on. You'll know her formally as The Fury's Lil' Tantrum of Tara. How cute is it that we have two "lil"s in the litter? (Rippa is Tara's Lil Rippa).
And we even have a video from Facebook:
Yes, clearly Piper is settling in nicely. :)
And we also have Curry, who is doing well and her owner is being good to me with lots of photos.
The sadist in me loooooove this one - it looks like she's having a major snow-spill.
Yeah, so, so far so good. Everyone seems to be happy with their new family, clearly, and I believe very firmly in my heart that these guys are where they really ought to be. Very excited about that.
Glad to hear all is well. The final week photos are probably going to take a bit, since I didn't shoot the background that cleanly, so they're requiring substantial work. Perspective: I spend about an hour on them last night and got two of them cleaned up. After I get them all (~20) "cleaned up," I still have color correction to do. I would expect them by... Sunday?
ReplyDeleteI know that's not the answer you want, but I'll tell you that they have loads of potential, and I want them to look as good as possible.
I guess Fury thinks she is a wolf and is helping the puppies along the way they do. I have heard of that in dogs, but it's not very common.
ReplyDeleteFurry thinks she's a mommy bird?
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