Day 27

Today was a big day for the little guy. He went shopping with us (in a purse) for most of the day. Then tonight he growled for the first time! It was adorable!!! I didn't catch it on video, the video is just of how well he is doing with his walking. He is also starting to get some teeth!

Day 26

This is me waking the Treble up to eat. Usually as soon as I start talking to him he hops up and starts running around the box. He must have been extra tired right then, notice what he does when I mention eating! To understand just how awesome it is you have to know what the vet told us waaaaaay back when he was a day old. The first thing she told us was that he couldnt nurse therefore he couldn't live. She said that tubefeeding ALWAYS killed puppies and that she had tried to raise a litter of cleft puppies while she was in college and had to euthenize them later. Then she said that the cranium and the kidneys develop at the same time so his kidneys probably didn't work, he chose that moment to pee on her. She said it was because he had been born less than 24 hours before. Trust me, his kidneys are still going strong. Yesterday he pee'd on two different people. Next she said his toungue was too big, it wasn't shaped right, it was clearly deformed... his toungue looks fine to me. If it is a little bit big it helps with forming a little suction since his lips can't. The final thing we had to wait to find out about was his hearing, she said that because he was white he would probably be deaf. If you watch the video you can tell that there is NO way that he is deaf. She ended by saying that there was probably a whole bunch of things wrong with him, but he was so strong it would be a shame to put him down. Her suggestion? let him go home and try to nurse and since he couldn't after a day or two he would get weak and mom would push him away and then we should take him back to her and they would give him a little gas. I am so glad that we disregarded everything she said, instead he came home with me and at 3 1/2 weeks he is going strong. We are not out of the woods yet, but if something happens from here out it probably will not be his kidneys, his toungue or his hearing.

Belated end of day 24

We have reached day 25! But not much has happened yet today so we will focus on day 24. Treble went and spent some time with his mom and littermates. He really liked it, but he was a LOT smaller than them. When they were born they were all around the same size. He also hadn't had any weight gain in about a week. So we adjusted his formula some to add more fat. Before we used 5 oz condensed goats milk and added 5 oz water, then 1 cup whole fat yogurt, a teaspoon of caro syrup and an egg yolk. This time we added 10 oz condensed goats milk, 4 oz liver water, 1 cup whole fat yogurt, 1 tablespoon mayonaise, a teaspoon of caro syrup and an egg yolk. I made up the formula last night and fed him every 45 minutes or so until I went to bed. He had been just barely flashing 5 5/8 all day but when I went to bed he was holding a steady 5 5/8. I slept through one of my alarms last night though and so he went almost 5 hours in between feedings, he seems to have handled the deprivation pretty well.... I've got to try to not do that again.

Day 23

I wanted to share some of the nicknames that Treble has accumulated over the last few weeks. There are the basics- baby, little boy, baby boy, puppy. Then the ones he has gotten from his looks, Stuart Little, Yoda, and one of his latest: Brat Rat, a 6 year old friend of mine dubbed him that because he looks like a rat and cries like a brat. Anyways, everything is going well. He is at 5 3/8 today. Tomorrow he is going to go play with his littermates. This will be the first time he has seen then since he was 4 days old. They are around a pound, we will hopefully have some good pictures.

End of Day 21

Excellent news! This morning he pooped all on his own!! and then a few hours later he did it again! Lets hope that he keeps it up. We are just a few hours away from three weeks old. He is at 5 3/8 oz tonight. He is spending tomorrow with a friend so I can get some stuff done. I will try and get some new pictures for tomorrow night. Better go feed him, he is scratching around in his box.

Mid Day 20

I know, I know. Im a horrible blogger! But Ive been busy and tired and there really hasn't been a whole lot to say. He is still figuring out how to get up on his feet, he tumbles a little less now. We are stilll struggling with making sure he is getting enought out of the bottle, its very hit and miss, one time he gets 4 cc's and the next time you do exactly the same thing and he only gets .5 cc's. And we are still struggling with getting him to poop, he has started to pee on his own and sometimes he looks like he is trying to poop. But he hasn't been able to poop without assistance since he was a week old, I have no idea why. He hasn't made it past 5 1/4 oz. He reached 5 1/4 oz briefly on day 14 and since then he keeps fluctuating from 5 to 5 1/8 to 5 1/4 to 5 3/8. Right now he seems to be holding steady at 5 1/4 but I really want to see that number grow! I think he might be able to hear because today when I walked up to the box and said hey little baby he hopped up and started squirming around. But it could have been one of his other senses, maybe he smelled me, or saw me. So in the picture he is on my hand and the pic is taken from my arm, so thats my wrist you see. He is geting so active that it is hard to get a good picture of him!

2 Weeks Old

Its pretty late and I already fed Trebble for the last time before I go to bed so I will keep the post brief. His other eye is partially open now :) he is still at 5 oz. and we ended up having to give him another enema tonight after 2 1/2 days of him not pooping... But tonight Treble did the cutest thing ever. While I was turning the water on and getting a paper towel ready to wash him off a little he curled up and fell asleep in my hand. He hasn't done that since he was just a couple of days old. (I've gotten a couple hand pics but it was just a lucky snap of the camera, he wasn't fast asleep) It was a pretty awesome feeling to see him sleeping in the palm of my hand completely relaxed. He started to wake up after about ten minutes so I put my other hand out and he settled back down and went back to sleep.  I couldn't pick a picture so I decided to put them both up. I already had gotten the video from a little earlier. He is starting to use his back legs a lot more to walk around. Well, so much for brief! not too long though... goodnight!