Feb 6, 2013 | Hope's Journey
I gave Hope her first taste of food today – We use Gerber Chicken and Gravy baby food and I fed her using a syringe. She doesn’t have the tongue action yet to be able to lap so placing it directly onto her tongue was the next best thing. The look on her...
Feb 4, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Hope now peers her head out of the towel we have draped over the bin in her whelping box and greets me with a bark when I come in the room to feed her. Do you think she has this all figured out? I swear she can hear my footsteps as I walk up the stairs and her waggy...
Feb 2, 2013 | Hope's Journey
And what an amazing three weeks it has been! We have spaced our feedings out to every 3.5/4 hours, she is up to 8 1/2 ounces and she is “this” close to crawling her way out of the whelping box. Her opened eyes are still a bit cloudy but I swear I saw her...
Feb 1, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Last night, Suri started cleaning up the TOP end instead of the bottom while I was feeding Hope. I swear you could see the “ah-ha” moment lightbulb turn on as she got a taste of the formula straight from the syringe. Up until then, she was cleaning off the...
Jan 31, 2013 | Hope's Journey
Both of Hope’s eyes are fully open but her world is still rather blurry. Puppies cannot see very well until they are about 4 weeks old but they can see things that are close up. She has yet to follow my finger but some of the newly opened eye glaze is starting...
