puppies!

[askerian]

So my cousin's dog had puppies a couple weeks ago.

Eleven of them.

(Well, technically thirteen but two of them died at birth. So.)

So my cousin's dog is already drying out, milk-wise, and also getting fed up with getting mobbed. Not the greatest mother ever, but. Eleven puppies. I understand. And my cousin and my aunt leave the house at seven AM to go work and come back around six PM. And at this age the puppies should be fed every three hours or thereabouts.

Guess who gets to do it.

I am torn between OMG PUPPIES!! X333 and eleven oh god why. Their house is 15-20 minutes on foot from my apartment -- two bus stops, so not far enough to justify taking the bus. It shouldn't be very problematic, but I am so out of shape and my new boots are like BWAHAHAHAHA! SUFFER! SUFFER FOR YOUR HEELY SINS! Also, foot wart that hurts like a motherfucker, yeah, you totally wanted to know that. Also just mixing the milk powder and stuff takes me ages and then it takes me ages to get one bottle into each (especially since some of them have not figured out how to suckle efficiently yet and dribble. Also, liquid, stinky poo.)

All that to say, it really cuts into my leisurely afternoons. >__>

But. Puppies! They're all black, save for the one that's such a dark brown it's almost black (BIG HELP THERE, BROWNPUPPY), so I have to tell them apart by the size of their chest stars and socks. D: Okay, which one of you guys have been fed yet... oh hey, I recognize you, little cheater, this is your second bottle! There's the two that look like fat, sleepy little bears and the tiny skinny grumpy one that's totally toppy and the ones that keep eating each other's muzzle OH MY GOD SO CUTE. But apart from that they're so similar, whoa. And some are already kind of walking and stumbling around and some only crawl so far but are like guided missiles anyway when there's milk around. Ngh. And then they go and pile up together and how am I supposed to recognize any? There's just that puppy mosh pit of black fur and adorable short muzzles and round puppy bellies.

Puppiiiiiiies. ngh. ♥ Ahh, I wish I could take one. T__T

It's almost enough to make me forgive my cousin for not getting her dox fixed before she ran off and got herself knocked up. It's not like we all told her a hundred times to get around to it, and now she's got eleven mixed breed puppies to find home for right in the middle of summer vacation. Great job, Em'. =_____=; But, not the puppies' fault. ngh puppiiiies.

Comments

[rosalui.livejournal.com]

PUPPIES. *_______* PUPPIES PUPPIES PUPPIES.

I am exploding with cute.

Post pictures? ;_;

[askerian]

I don't have a camera. Or even a phone that can take pictures. I am so sad. Sooooo sad. But they look kinda like this, just black.

[yesthisisme.livejournal.com]

o.o PUPPIES. 8D

[kiwi-socks.livejournal.com]

PUPPPPIESS

When we temporarily fostered a black queen who wasn't producing enough milk and...six? black kittens, I always just smeared a bit of milk on the faces/backs of the fed ones. Then it just became a matter of "are you clean y/n?" (But would that work for dogs? D:). Also for ones who don't pick up on the suckling fast enough, try a syringe.

G-good luck and I hope you don't also have to potty them.

[monique-27.livejournal.com]

PUPPIES!!! *SQUEEEEEEEEZ*

...oh, yeah, I'm a great comment-er. [;(>.<)]

Anywho, yayz for puppies. ^^ You are a good person, Asuka. *snuggles*

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I think you are doing a grave disservice by not posting pictures of said puppies. :)

[lilai.livejournal.com]

Puppiiiiiiiies !

Mon petit ami suggère que tu leur passes un élastique à cheveux de couleur autour de la patte pour les différencier !

[askerian]

Malheureusement ils savent déjà machouiller et avaler des trucs, donc pas une super idée. XD;; (en plus tous mes élastiques sont noir, donc bon ouais quoi.)

[lilai.livejournal.com]

Ah oui effectivement ^^;;;

Je suis plus chat que chien, mais quand ils sont petits, ils sont trop mimi >o

[(Anonymous)]

Puppies are assholes; wait till they realise how to give The Look that gets them out of almost all trouble. Even say, pissing up the wall seriously it's even on the ceiling how did you do that you're a puppy.

[askerian]

... *cracks up* XDDD

[tanukyle.livejournal.com]

Find camera.
STEAL camera.

SOMEHOW OBTAIN CAMERA.
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My friend's labrador had puppies..okay AGES ago.
But they were adorable.
Like little sausageees~

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

Puppies! :D

Maybe little ribbon collars or something for identification purposes? I know of people who bred LARGE pedigree dogs of some sort, one of their girls gave birth to like fifteen and then died of complications (sad). They both took time off work to become full-time puppy parents for several weeks and the ribbon collars were essential.

(Also, when working out who has and hasn't had a drink, having "thin puppy hasn't yet" as a default setting might be good for him/her.) PUPPIES! :3

[hitori-toshiro.livejournal.com]

Pics or it didn't happen LULZ.

Sérieusement, j'aimerais pouvoir seulement ENVISAGER d'en adopter un. J'irais jusqu'à faire le chemin pour venir le chercher et tout. Ce ne serait juste pas raisonnable v_v Leur mère est de quelle race ?

[askerian]

Heu, mélange pitbull (staff, pas ceux qui ont le nez tout plat) et dogue allemand. Elle m'arrive presque à la hanche et elle est toute en muscles compact, poil ras. Le père est un labrador noir. Je sais pas trop de quoi ils auront l'air en grandissant, surtout qu'il y en a déjà qui ont l'air vachement plus massif des épaules que d'autres, mais le poil court et les oreilles tombantes en tout cas. En tout cas ils vont être énorme.

[hitori-toshiro.livejournal.com]

Bouuuuh, j'aime les gros chiens ç_ç Mais en appartement c'est juste pas la peine. Gniiih. Les mélanges entre deux chiens à morphologie différente ça donne toujours des trucs... intéressants XD

[sometimesafox.livejournal.com]

You should give them all ridiculous names in revenge for the suffering/joy they are putting you through.

[askerian]

Alas, naming puppies I am not keeping is strictly verboten, on pain of attachment and horrible heartbreak later on.

puppy love

[(Anonymous)]

As far as feeding them goes, you could get them all and place them in a basket, letting them go after you've fed them. Or you could get them all different ribbons <3
omgiwantonesobad

Re: puppy love

[askerian]

Yeah, I think I'll put them out of the pen and put them back in as I feed them, or the other way around. >__> I just better count them, in just two days they've started to walk around a bit already so I don't know how fast they'll be in escaping today.

Re: puppy love

[kraziekatlord.livejournal.com]

If you have, like, a large box or a large laundry basket, you can put them in the basket, then put them in their pen/bed area/whatever. I don't have puppy experience, but that's what my cousins did when they had to be puppy tenders one year.

At least, I think they're my cousins. We're related several generations back, but we keep in contact, swap kids for the summer, etc.

Re: puppy love

[askerian]

It'd have to be a huge basket. XD On average they're each almost as long as my forearm and way fatter, and they're all champion wrigglers by now, so to stick eleven of them in there... (also they're at my cousin's home and i have no idea what she's got available.) S'okay, i've got a system now. I just let them wander and once they're full I put them to bed. Hopefully if they've eaten enough then fall asleep pretty soon afterwards. If the first are still awake and whining when i'm done with the last, they get a second helping.

[ryouseiteki.livejournal.com]

Different color yarn or ribbon or stickers (stickers will rub off if they're rolling around though).

ALSO PUPPIES

[oceanandspace]

awww, puppies *.* they are so cute when they are young! (but eleven of them is O.O) How is it going?

[askerian]

good for the moment, but then again they're barely starting to walk. XD; I got there today to one of them WHINING like it was in agony... it had gotten out of the fence, gone all the way around, and was stuck between the fence and the wall. it couldn't figure out how to turn around. I was mean and laughed a lot. u.u

[oceanandspace]

Don't worry, you're secret is safe with me (us?) ;p We had a puppy once, who crawled off his cover and I mean cover, you know, summer time, very hot weather, we put a cover on the ground in a patch of half shadow half sun. very flat cover, could barely feel the difference between ground and tissue (their usual one was in the washing machine ^^

So, you'd think it wouldn't be a problem, no? Eh ben non ^^;;; She whined until I stretched a leg over and pushed her ass a bit forward. She flopped like a child toy and rolled over once, then another time, and went flat on her cover. Then she got up and walked back toward her mother.

I was -_-"

[shadowzephyr.livejournal.com]

You can forgive a lot for puppies. Their cuteness just sucks out any negative emotion you may be experiencing... whether you like it or not. LOL.

[midget-arnold.livejournal.com]

I know this comment is out of sync with most of the post, but- I've heard putting duct tape on warts kills them.

My sympathies with the puppies. I've done that with a couple litters of stray kittens before.