21 Today!

mary@chihuahuas-online.co.uk
www.chihuahuas-online.co.uk

Well, my litter of 5 x smooth coat chihuahuas are 21 days old today, and growing nicely. They are getting stronger in the legs each day, but havn't properly found their feet yet, and although they can see around now, they have only just started to hear things as their little ears have just opened. They are still being fed by mum, who is doing an excellent job. I offered them a bowl of warm milk and mushed up farleys rusk this morning, but they were not impressed, bless... needless to say mum ate that for them, they will get it in the end I suppose!

I will try again in a day or two, perhaps when they are on their feet a bit more, there is no rush.

One of the pups is a snow white female with blue eyes. Obviously, we couldn't part with her, so she will be stopping with us, and we have named her Jennie Angel Snowflake. Jennie because this name apparantly means 'White Wave'.... Her middle name "Angel" was chosen by me, after my Grandma who passed in 1980 who has always been my guardian angel (Jennie's mum is called Daisy may, named after my Grandma so it was fitting to name Daisys' first pup of ours after my grandma also). And finally, Snowflake was chosen by my partner. So, Jennie Angel Snowflake will go on her birth certificate and she will be called Jennie for short..

The 4 remaining pups have found lovely homes and will leave me when they are 8 weeks old, all being well.

My litter of long haired Chihuahua pups are now 16 days old. Their eyes opened when they were 14 days old, so they are still slightly glazed over, but this will pass as the days go by. They too, are all doing nicely, and although mum dosn't seem to spend a great deal of time with them, they are being well fed and kept nice and clean by her. WE are concerened about their warmth though, so they are under constant heating from a heat lamp. They are slightly more wire haired than the smooth coats, in fact, it is quite hard to tell the smooth and the long coat pups pups apart at this stage, I dare say their coats will start to grow in shortly. 2 of the pups have found super homes, 1 has found a home but not yet reserved, and 2 potential owners who 'verbally' reserved the remaining 2 pups seem to have disapeared off the face of the earth since deposits were requested. You know when you request a deposit (which is a fair thing to do), then you get told that they were put in the post last week, and must have gone missing, yehh right....0-(

I suppose 2 timewasters out of 9 is not too bad. If you are geniunly looking for a long haired chihuahua puppy in the UK, as a pet only, please check out the pictures on my website at www.chihuahuas-online.co.uk I have 1 male and 1 female. I am re-vetting previous enquiries, but if you provide me with details about the home you are offering, experience, other pets, children, time at home during the day etc etc etc and will not vanish if I ask for a deposit, then please do get in touch, my email is at the top of this post...

Ok then, all is well,
until next time