Today the puppies were given chicken wings for the first time.
The pups don’t have any teeth yet, well actually I felt them start to come through yesterday. But anyway, the wings were not meant to be eaten by them, they are meant to get them used to the smell and “taste”. The pups found them really interesting, and they would love to have had teeth to have been able to tear them apart and eat them. So in stead of eating the wings they mouthed and sucked them until…..



…..until Zanna couldn’t stand it any longer. She jumped into the whelping box, took 1 wing away and ate it in her basket.
Then she jumped in again, grabbed the nest wing and was just about to jump out when I stopped her. I told her she was being greedy as she just had her own breakfast so to drop the wing…. But she didn’t (or couldn’t) and just stood, wing in mouth, 2 puppies under belly. It was very funny sight. I was planning to let her have them anyway when the pups had tired of them, that way the puppies would get their wings indirectly. After a while she ended up eating the wing standing where she was.



Not all the pups took advantage of the fact that their mother was in the whelping box. 2 were still enjoying the wings more. And when the pups tired of the last 2 wings Zanna ate those too.



Zanna had a good day today, lots and lots of food!!!!!!!!!