They also heave themselves to their feet during this
week and start to walk around. These 3 puppies were a teeny bit
slow to get to their feet - particularly Kuu, who is enormous and I feared
would be quite happy dragging himself around on his belly for perpetuity.
However, even Kuu eventually got to his feet and by the time they are 3 weeks
old they are lurching around the box and occasionally pouncing ... ok, the
pouncing might be by accident rather than design, to be fair.
For the first time ever, we have had one of the
puppies punching with her front paws the way that Tuuli does. Lots of
Tuuli's kids do the double-front-paw-paw, but we've never seen one do it this
early. I hereby predict that Tähti is definitely going to
be a puncher.
And because I know there are one or two very excited people who are impatient to see how the puppies are developing, without further ado, here are the puppies today, on their 3-week birthday.
Little Arvo
Tähti
Kuu
And just to prove that the puppies are big, heavy and growing fast, here are the weight charts showing their development since birth and, just for fun, a chart showing the relative average weights of each litter. I remember that Jay & I were both ill for a lot of the time the Mailat puppies were with us, and unfortunately it seems I didn't even weigh them each week, so there's not much info about them in the comparison.
Before anyone asks, no, none of these weights mean anything or even really matter. It's all just for fun. Puppy size seems to bear very little relevance to adult size, and average litter weights is not a competition. However, I didn't expect any litter to ever "beat" the Tuisku gang, thanks to Usko. But did that behemoth of a puppy grow into a bruiser of an adult? Nope.
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