entertainment

Now that the puppies are weaned, Tuuli doesn't let them nurse anymore.  But she does love to spend time with them, just in the pen chewing a hoof or playing with them.

And Neka enjoys them too

7 weeks old

You may have thought I had forgotten, but no.  And you will see from the poor quality of the photos that there is no time in this house.  But the 7-week pics had to be taken, regardless of how late at night and regardless of how wiggly the puppy and regardless of how ... unfortunate ... the results.

The Juhla puppies, 7 weeks old, in various states of wiggliness.  Oh, and late at night with not-so-great lighting either.  And there's an outtake for each one too -  I'm spoiling you!

Juhla Pikkuveli - actually to be known as Tux!

Juhla Eevi - Eevi

Juhla Ismo - Malaki (Mally)

Juhla Kaija - Kaija

Juhla Niko - Niko

rainy days

Rainy days are tough when you have almost-7-week-old puppies who are getting housetrained and really, really want to go outside to do their business.  Then there is the matter of all the running and playing.

On days like that, it's all hands to the pump to keep the puppies entertained. As always, these puppies are very lucky to have their great-granny Neka in their lives.  She loves to get into the pen to play.  

Niko with granny Neka

Meanwhile, Eevi is busy at the tail end

Kaija joining in the fun

Neka buried in puppies - that's Malaki in the middle

6 weeks old

The fluff-monsters are 6 weeks old, cute as can be, and have their new families and new names all arranged.  I'm busy as you like - or at least certainly as busy as I ever like! - so without any fantare, here they are.

Tux - Infindigo Juhla Pikkuveli  -  to be known as Veli

Pikku is Finnish for "little" and veli is "brother" and he is going to be the little brother of Pikkukarhu (Karhu) in Glasgow with Wendy & Scott.

Kukka - Infindigo Juhla Eevi  -  to be known as Eevi

Eevi is a Finnish girl's name.  She is going to live with Helen & Matt in Flintshire, north Wales.

Ensi - Infindigo Juhla Ismo - to be known as Malaki

This boy was named in honour of his dad Kuura's big brother Ismo (Lakeslapps Rakko) who died too young less than a week before these puppies were born.  Run free at the Rainbow Bridge, sweet Ismo.  We will remember you whenever we think of this puppy who is so affectionate, calm and waggy.  This boy will be going to live with the Sinclair family and his new big Lappy brother Shadow.

Liila - Infindigo Juhla Kaija - to be known as Kaija

 Kaija is a Finnish girl's name and also the pet name of Infindigo Monta Sulo, so there's a fine recipe built in there to keep me confused.  It doesn't take much these days.

She is staying right here in Devon and going to live in Plymouth with the Perks family and 2 rabbits.

Tan - Infindigo Juhla Niko - to be known as Niko

Niko is a Finnish boy's name.  He stole the hearts of photographer Jenny & Rob and will be going to live in Nottingham and be the subject of many, many photos!  That's the plan, anyway, if they can convince him to stay still long enough, that is.......

random acts of cuteness pt 2

Thanks again to Jenny Duckworth, I have some photos to post.  Here's a selection of the gang at 4.5 weeks in various states of cuteness - all were taken by Jenny.

That's just about it now for Jenny's fine work.  You've had the cute portraits, and you have had the hilarious scale photo.  Here are the candids and there are just 2 more special ones I've been holding back.  One will be posted tomorrow and if you want to see the other, you'll have to get your hands on a copy of the Finnish Lapphund Club of Great Britain yearbook when it is published in March because that's where that one is going.

Various chomping activites

Hanging around activities

Ensi looking adorable

Tan & Ensi

My guess would be Kukka

Various snoozing activities

Pile of puppies

Bookends

Toes!

the great outdoors

It's been super-cold here since the puppies moved downstairs so they haven't been spending much time outside.  Ok, so it's not super-cold by Finnish standards, but it's definitely cold by English ones, and with a north wind, it's downright nippy.  Too nippy for baby puppies for very long.  They go out into the pen for as long as it takes to clean out the indoor pen, and hopefully that's about the length of time it takes for them to all do their wees and poos too. 

Today it was a bit warmer and they got lots of outside time.  You can see how much they love it in the big pen.  There is much pouncing!

4 weeks old

Well Tuuli has done it again!  She has produced a litter of puppies who will all (more or less) sit and stand to have their photos taken.  It's difficult enough to get photos of puppies without expecting them to be still.  And more difficult again to try and accomplish this single-handedly.  However, we did and I did and it all went beautifully well.

Until I checked the photos I had taken.

Apparently I had forgotten to check the first one or two to make sure the camera was lined up properly on its tripod...  Yes I did forget to do that.  I took at whole set of impossible-to-achieve photos with the tops chopped off.  SIGH.

So I set it all up again and did it all over again.

Tux

Kukka

Ensi

Liila

Tan

And from the If-Only file:

Kukka looking demure

Liila doing her supermodel pose

Tan being all kinds of cute

And Kukka doing the same!