. . . what a mess, but they LOVE it!  Today was their first introduction to mushy dog food.  It did not take them long to figure out how to eat it.  A few of them decided it would be easier to eat if they put their paws in too!  It wasn’t too much of a mess until I made the 2nd bowl too watery. . . then they had it all over their faces and were licking it off of each other. . . they seemed to be having fun so I let them finish before I cleaned it all up!  Denali will still continue to feed them for the next few weeks in addition to them now getting puppy food.

They are so much fun to watch, they are playing more and more and teething on each other! We are careful about not letting them chew/suck on our fingers because we do not want them to get used to biting/chewing on humans.

We also put up a partial divider in the whelping box and lined the one side with newspaper.  We are teaching them to go on the paper and they are doing very well with this and are catching on more each day!  We get so excited whenever they go over there on their own to use the bathroom!

They have the most adorable bark/growl, it just makes us laugh!

Below are a few pictures of them eating, sleeping and playing. . .