Day Nineteen 

Yesterday I highlighted the girls, but sweet little Shiver got left out. Today I decided she needed to have her day too so here she is. She has always been the smallest in size but not personality. 

This morning before I cleaned the pen, I decided that I would see if they were interested in eating something from a saucer. I know how much they love the small bits of ground beef they get a couple times a day for the PSST hearing conditioning so I thought it might be time to start helping Tiffin with the feeding duties. I gave them Kefir and they seemed to like licking it off each other but only Chill lapped it up from the bowl. I would have used goats milk, but I don't have access to anyone with milking goats and I've always had luck with Kefir. Here they are trying to figure out what this is all about.

Another thing I tried today was collecting urine samples to refrigerate to see if they stayed clear which would indicate LUA or turned cloudy which would indicate HUA. I only managed to get two samples because it isn't easy to get a tiny puppy to pee on a spoon like gadget.  I won't tell the results until the DNA testing is done through VGL but it will be interesting to see if I get the same results. Here is the gadget I used to collect the samples.

Of course, I did snap some pictures of a couple other pups.

Blizzard always seems to get in the pictures.

 Arctic thought she could crawl over the edge but she didn't make it yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Today I also trimmed their nails and weighed them. Shiver is the smallest weighing 2.5 pounds. The largest is a tie between Chill and Tundra at 3.1 pounds.