Puppies at age 4 weeks

We have a litter of Labrador puppies here, born on 7/12/09 so thought I would share a couple of photos of them.

Everybody always talks about the sweet smell of “puppy breath”. If you haven’t smelled it I really have no way to describe it to you but any dog breeder knows what I am talking about. So what causes this delightful (to dog lovers anyways) smell that only lasts a short time? The theories I have found say that vets guess that puppy breath is a result of their healthy, mild diet of mother’s milk and then puppy food, and the enzymes that break the food down.

Sleeping pups, age 4 weeks.

Since puppies don’t eat “big dog” or table food, they don’t have “big dog” mouth bacteria or the plaque problems older dogs develop so their mouths are clean thus no bad breath.

Can’t you just imagine the puppy breath just looking at these sleeping babies?
More information and photos of our sweet pups can be found on our web site.

My post about dogs and heat has been one of the most read posts on my blog. Today I heard about a neat product that goes with that post.

There is a temperature monitor and alarm you can put in your car, truck or motorhome that will cause the horn to blow if temperature is over or under a certain range. It is made by Safe Home Products. It isn’t cheap but in all of these cases it could have saved the dogs involved.

In a further update, yet another dog has died in a hot car — this one belonged to the Richmond, VA SPCA CEO: View article.
My sympathies go out to her as apparently this occurred due to an unfortunate lack of communication between her and her husband, who had put the dog in her car without telling her, but one has to wonder if this had been a CEO of another type of business who left their dog in a car, wouldn’t charges be pressed and the public be up in arms? Instead the head of the HSUS is defending her saying this incident can help raise public awareness.

As promised, I have finally taken a couple of new pictures of Sugar and Spice, our foster mini-horses. They are looking really good, okay slightly fat maybe.
Today Sugar let me touch the side of her neck — a first. Spice let me run over most of her body tonight including touching her hooves.

Spice (left) and Sugar (right)