9 Weeks Old - Nibbles

So our little bundle of joy Charlie has been with us a whole week now! Its has flown by and also been a long week. Puppy's are very full on!

So apart from house / toilet training the main topic this week has been food and mouthing. Food wise he has been a little off the basic dry stuff, only eating about half of the 70 grams we put down. So having had a chat with Julia (our breeder at Jupavia) we have tried some tricks to get him eating. The idea is to just add a little of something else to make it more interesting to eat, while making the bulk of the food his regular puppy food.

First up we have goats milk, it didn't seem to mix in that well and to be honest Charlie did not find it any more exciting to eat. Then came some paste stuff, Chicken flavour. Well this was a real winner as Charlie ate every scrap, licking the bowl clean. However, the result was it made him go hyper afterwards, actually a lot afterwards and No.2's were far from normal. So we guessed that was not so good and moved onto our current trick, a spoonful of 'Butchers Tripe'. Seems to be going well and we, well Charlie, is eating the full amount he should.

The other little issue is whats called mouthing. Basically Charlie using his teeth on us. While this is fine with other puppies its not so great for us! So we are trying to slowly show that mouthing is no longer allowed. To be honest he has been very good and not drawn blood like puppies I've been with before, its more of a 'hug' type hold on your fingers.

So back to house / toilet training, going well. OK we miss the odd time he needs to go out. After all we should be able to sprint the length of the house and scoop him up. But to be honest it's going well and Charlie heads for the grass nearly all the time now!

Playing with tuggy-!