A Gang Venture Outside

This last week just gone has been a noisy one indeed. The A Gang began to suffer a bit of 'whelping box fever' to the point where Mr Light Blue ribbon boy escaped and did a litter 'Burke and Wills' exploring in the lounge room. Tail up head down, he sniffed his way past the lounge chair into the dining room and around the dining table before he was discovered and placed back into protective custody and security of the whelping box.

This was one of the signs that it was time to relocate.

To the A Gang their surrounds are not different in that the whelping box went outside and four walls (double glazed for insulation) and a roof went around and over it. The whelping box is still switched on and heating the base and the light which was attached to one side of the roof, stays on all night. There is a towel over the opening to keep the draft out and the whole whelping box enclosure stays lovely and warm but the difference is that the A Gang can leave of their own accord if they want to.

Leading to the opening, steps have been made out of pavers so that the A Gang can go back easier.

So Last night was their first night in the great outdoors.

They slept like babies.

Me on the other hand did not sleep much at all, venturing outside to check on them every second of every hour, at least it feels like it today; my eyes feel like there is sand in them for gross lack of sleep, LOL.

This morning the A Gang had their first drink of milk by lapping rather then drinking out of a bottle.

Well if you could have seen it; I use a muffin tin and started of by having four puppies drinking nicely but that soon turned to 'every puppies for him or herself' with paws, bottoms and faces in the milk and all over each other. Despite all that they did manage to end up with full bellies and went back to 'home base' for a well deserved rest after the feeding frenzy just gone.

I am about to upload a clip from this morning to YouTube so check back over there for it, though it will take a while to finish uploading.