4 days old – 8 very content puppies :)
Bella and puppies are doing really well. Whoever is looking for well socialized puppies with good motherly instincts, these are the puppies are you 🙂 Bella, although watchful, allows anyone to pick her pups up & will not leave their side unless we make her go outside for a bathroom break. Richard made her a whelping box but she prefers to lie against the utility room door so things are going to get quite interesting once the puppies really start moving.
This picture was taken this morning with Hannah sat in the box whilst Bella was outside.
The following pics I took this evening. Here is Puppy #1 cuddled between Mama’s front legs:
Here are 2 & 3 just stretched out:
This next one shows 4, 5 & 6 sucking away:
And here are 7 & 8 also zonked out:
Been a crazy week here – glad the weekend is here. Got to pull some weeds in the garden tomorrow – it is very overgrown but we are really enjoying the fresh potatoes, onions & kale. Yum! Yum!
Hope you all have a great weekend,
Liz
July 10, 2010 @ 2:48 am
What adorable babies. Are you going to sell them? If so, what are you asking?
July 10, 2010 @ 3:46 am
Good morning Liz, what beautiful, content puppies! Does my heart good to see these pictures first thing this morning. It is nice to hear that Bella is being such a good mom. With 8 pups, the last thing you need right now would be to have to bottle feed puppies. I look forward to seeing more pictures. I bet you won’t have a hard time finding homes for these pups. Very, very cute.
Lee
July 10, 2010 @ 3:48 am
Also, look at that happy look on Hannah’s face. What’s the odds that the family ends up with more than one Irish Setter 😆
Lee
July 12, 2010 @ 8:07 am
Awwwwwwwwww……….. look at those adorable teeny puppies! Now I wanna hold em! 🙂 Hannah looks so grown up – wasn’t she just a baby yesterday??