22/04/2025
🐾 Puppies are born without sight, without hearing, and completely dependent on their mother.
🐾 For the first two weeks, they spend almost all their time eating and sleeping.
🐾 Their sense of smell is active from birth … this helps them find mum to nurse and makes their relationship with their breeder last a lifetime !
🐾 Puppies can’t regulate their own body temperature, so warmth from mum, littermates and heating pads is essential.
🐾 Early milk, called colostrum, provides vital antibodies to help build our babies immune system before vaccinations can be administered .
🐾 Tiny twitching during sleep is called “activated sleep” … it’s important for muscle and brain development.
🐾 Babies umbilical cords fall off within the first few days. Mums usually chew the umbilical cord at birth with our supervision to a good length .
🐾 daily weighing shows us weight gain is rapid, our babies almost double their birth weight in the first 7-10 days
🐾 Around day 14, puppies eyes and ears start to open, revealing a whole new world. Are you ready for that? They become little people then!
🐾 Gentle early handling by humans supports socialization and bonding.
🐾 We introduce Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS) to help build resilience, confidence, and stress tolerance for life. More in a seperate post!