Tieka is interested in the puppies, and up till now sometimes quietly enteres the whelping box and quickly leaves again. Sometimes she would stare over the side of the whelping box to get a better look at the puppies. Her happy tail wagging with joy.
And always Zanna tolerated it. I only heard her growl softly once and that’s a mothers prerogative.

Then last night Tieka couldn’t stand it any longer and carefully walked into the whelping box while Zanna was feeding the pups, and laid down. She stayed there for about 5 minutes so I think this was a big step in her "getting closer to the grandchildren" approach.




Today I clipped the pups nails for the first time. All went well, didn’t chop any toes off LOL. Their nails grow so quickly, I wonder how wolfs cope with puppy nails massaging on there bellies?

The grown-up dogs had a luxury meal today. I picked up a bag of duck and dove carcasses. The duck looks pretty much like a chicken carcass, just about the same size, except its a darker colour and the meat is left on the leg bones. On chicken carcasses the meat is removed from the legs… but chickens have much bigger legs so I guess its more worth the extra work to get the meat of them.
Thought it would be fun to shock u with a photo of them. Left is the duck, right is the dove. The dogs eat them as is.
I guess you could say that indirectly the pups are in for a luxury meal too ;-).