The play's the thing!

Things are happening fast in Deca's den!

Today, the pups got their first taste of solid food. Ok, not really solid, but the first thing that they could eat--or lick--that wasn't mother's milk. I had to comb the Deca archives to see what I had done for the puppy gruel for the first litter. Once accomplished, I put on my chef's hat and whipped up a first rate gruel for Deca's pups.

I've put a bowl of water in the pen area, so they could drink, when they were ready. Some of them are drinking, others are swimming, which is par for the course.

All of them are running around now, and it's clear that they can see where they're going, and what they're doing. When they're not sleeping, and thankfully, they do sleep, they're playing with each other and learning their puppy skills.

One of them--Green--seems to be the most adventurous. This afternoon, when I went down to visit them, he was out of the pen area, and slowly roaming around the basement. Apparently, this didn't faze Deca, who was just watching him...or her. And now, that he--or she--knows how to get out, he keeps escaping.

The dilemma again--how to let Deca get in to feed and clean her pups, while stopping the little one from making a run for it.