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Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016

Posted by davidterry 
Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:06PM
The litter was born on 5th March. There were rather a lot of them, eleven in fact, six male and five female. This is a picture taken on the first day a few hours after they were born. Not all the puppies are visible because some are hiding underneath their mother.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:06PM
Here they all are in one picture on day two. They are asleep on a heat pad. At this age their noses are pink but will soon turn dark just as their coat lightens gradually to show the familiar GSD markings.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:07PM
Here they are on day three with colouring starting to develop.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:08PM
One pup relaxing on day five.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:09PM
Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:10PM
It is difficult now to squeeze them all in but this is what they look like individually on day six.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:11PM
They are all squeezed in here on day seven or, at least, ten of them are.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:12PM
They are definitely all in this picture on day eight.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:13PM
And on day ten. If you look closely you might be able to see that their eyes are starting to open. There will be no stopping them once that happens.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:14PM
You can see more clearly here on day 11 that their eyes are beginning to open.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:15PM
As you can see their eyes ate now open on day 15.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:16PM
Some know how to relax.....

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:17PM
And here is a close up of an individual pup.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:18PM
Eyes wide open. It is now difficult to take pictures because one or more will always be moving.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:19PM
Here are the five female puppies on day 20.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:20PM
And here are the six male puppies. They have all just started to eat independently although they are also still being fed by their mum.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:22PM
Here they are on day 23. This is about as many as can be squeezed into one photo.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:23PM
A random selection

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:24PM
And some more....

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:25PM
At four weeks. Between the eleven of them they are now eating about eight pounds of meat and fish a day as well as about a litre of goats' milk.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:26PM
You can find out what I feed them and where I get it from at the 'miscellaneous information' part of this web site. At this age they eat a lot of minced raw oily fish and different varieties of minced raw meat.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:27PM
Here are two male puppies eating. There are only two of them because if there were any more you wouldn't see the bowl for heads. They are eating a mixture of minced oily fish, beef mince and some cooked rice.


Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:29PM
This and the next two are random female puppies taken on day 36.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:30PM
Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:32PM
Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:34PM
Outside today (Wednesday 13 April)

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:35PM
Eating together...

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:37PM
Jager, one of the male puppies.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:38PM
The next three are a sequence until you see what was in his mind.

Re: Elfie's litter by BSZS VA Leo von der Zenteiche born 5th March 2016
January 13, 2019 06:40PM
Closer...



You now need to click on page '2' below to see the remaining pictures.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/2019 06:44PM by davidterry.
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