Ruby is slowly weaning her babes. They are getting feisty, nippy and Ruby is too tired to play, she spends more time at the bottom of the stairs to get away from them, They are eating puppy food 3 times a day. I let out 2-3 pups at a time so Ruby and us peeps can spend some quality time without being overwhelmed.

She is trusting our family with helping care for her and her pups, she continues to frantically wake us up when puppies are overwhelming her or their is a poop to clean in the pen or when they escape once in awhile.

Oh,oh, gotta clean again, talk with you all again soon.

As you can see, Ms Roo is smiling and she is back to wanting lots of lovin' from us humans. She is now eating 8-10 cups of puppy food a day and drinking gallons of water. It's as though she nurses for about an hour, when pups are asleep she sneeks out of the pool and eats 2 cups of food and huge bowl of water and has to go outside. When I was gone for about 3 hours, I put down some puppy pads and she went poop 2 times on 1 pad perfect aim, so I think she really has the potty training down.

Milk is in and puppies are all getting little bellies, bringing them all to the vet to get them weighed tomorrow. Tomorrow they will be offically 1 week old and you will get to know them individually from then on.

Here is a video of Ruby and all her wonderful, healthy puppers. At 7 days old, okay... some are six days old. Cassie, Maggie, Princess, Lucy, Kekoa, Kainoa, Kona, Maui, Summit and Bailey. AND YOU THOUGHT YOU ARE BUSY???

Well it's 01/21/2012 at 2pm and we have 10 healthy Golden puppies.

Her 1st pup born on 01/20 at 8:30PM, had 4 pups, then rested till 3am, had 4 more and at 4am had 1. I assumed she was done, she nursed and slept till 8:30am. She woke me up, so we went outside and she had to go potty. She looked so refreshed and skinny, more energy this AM. She also ate a bit of yogurt and nibbles of kibble and drank lots of water. I stepped out the room to leave her with her new family for awhile and at 10:45 went to check on her and she was delivering another one. I thought this is crazy, what next, no more ice cream for her, every time I give her some she has another puppy. So needless to say 10 pups, she is quite a trooper and a wonderful mother. Just counted, she has 5 girls and 5 boys, hope no more. She has her work cut out for her.

Check up later to see more on this beauitful family.

My goodness, after the holiday weekend I suddenly look at my email and Ruby has a sponsor and lots of donations. Ruby and her babies Thank you all, she will need all the help she can get.

We have been calling her "Roo" like Winnie the Pooh series (the little baby kangaroo). She really responds to that name and loves being talked too, we are convinced she smiles when you talk baby talk to her. She is very affectionate and gives lots of hugs. She is still very shy of new people, but she is also very curious and she will come out of her safe spot to check out what's going on but then runs back in. She has a very happy tail, from a distance you can hear her tail hit the floor when she is excited. When our next door neighbor lets out her mini wiener dog named Izzy, she barks and goes crazy. I think she thinks it's one of her pups.

We are now on 3 times a day feedings and appears there is a tummy approaching. Out of all the samples of puppy food she likes Nutrosource, which we mix with niblets of liver sausage and cottage cheese. She walks nice on a leash, she does not walk next to you, but behind you. Thanks again for the support.