Five week old puppies keep you moving! This litter is spoken for, but feel free to email bluestemkennels@gmail.com regarding our Spring 2022 planned litters. My responses are slow right now with everything going on and I keep being hopeful that I can get around to responding to emails, but right now my focus is on raising these puppies and caring for my family. If email responses have to wait until April then so be it.
But I’m here writing to you all now and that’s what counts. Just to make sure that I got pictures of every single puppy, I pulled them out individually yesterday and played with them on the front lawn. I am really going to take my time on making picks with this litter, they are really all fantastic and I want to make sure that I talk to all of the new owners again and get it all right. They get their microchips on Monday, March 22nd so final decisions all have to be made by then.
Here is what I ask that the new owners have in mind when we talk next week: 1) have your pickup plans pretty firm so that I have it on my calendar 2) think of the personality of the pup that you are looking for: do you want an alpha dog or somewhere in the middle? Coat length? Size for your purpose? All of them are really lovely and we’re having just a terrible time even figuring out which female we want to keep. Regardless of which puppy you get, you will be happy!
Okay here are the pics. They are simply in the order that they were photographed the first time at the age of three weeks, no reason for the order other than the random selection that I did on that day.
Males
Quartz
Quentin
Quince
Quetzal
Qbert
Females
Queen
Quest
Qiana
Quarry
Wow, those are some cute photos! They were pretty nervous. They would run around for a couple of minutes, then come up to me for a cuddle and pets, then I’d put them back down and let them run around for a few more minutes. When you see where they are sniffing and searching around, they are looking for their litter or their mom. They are still very focused on wanting that security of being together.
Here is the video that we took in the backyard yesterday afternoon, pretty unscripted and random: Q Litter at Five Weeks Video
It is really getting to be nice weather here and I’m looking forward to when the puppies start to let themselves out which will be any day now. Right now when I open the gate, they still pretty much want to stay in their kennel but that will change soon. I did put collars on them a few days ago, those will stay with me when they go home. Some of those camo collars on the boys are 10 years old! Those are the small puppy collars, they will be ready for their new owners to bring medium puppy collars when they go home in three weeks.
We are trying to transition from soft canned food to puppy hard kibble, but they still really like canned food so they get it once or twice a day. They have access to kibble at all times. Mom generally goes out to see them once or twice a day and spends the night with them. With the limited nursing, they do drink from the water bowl. I will start our deworming regimen over the weekend, then next week is when I’ll defrost a dead quail to let them have a go at picking that up and also letting them inspect our live pigeon loft. I’ve been doing noise exposure daily when they eat and they know to expect that and are not reacting. We’ll mess around with a leash next week and practice being in a crate a little. With it being spring break I’ll be able to have my helper Caleb assist me with all of this.
Of course right now sanitation is a continuous job and it will just get to be more so. I’m able to get away with a once per day cleanup now but soon it will be twice a day and will continue that way until they go home.
Charles is preparing for the Griffon field trial in Illinois in a week and a half. I am excited to see who shows up and how it all goes.
Time to sign off, enjoy the spring weather and good luck to everyone who is training, trialing, testing their big dogs or raising puppies right now.
Bluestem Kennels 
Leave a Reply