Babe:  “My puppies are getting bigger and older and developing very distinct personalities.  In fact, I think they’re finding their own voices.  At some point, a good mother recognizes her children’s need to express themselves.  So today, I give you Clay.” Clay:  “Hi, my name is Clay.  Or at least, it used to be Clay.  Jack is calling me by a different name now.  He’s been taking lots and lots of...

Babe:  “Jack decided it was time for something new.  We could all tell how crowded it was getting in the whelping box.  Of course, when your babies gain 20 pounds in a week, they take up a lot more space!  He also mentioned something about the matting getting wet. So Jack being Jack, he decided it was time to do something.  He took one wall of the box and moved it out to give my puppies a play yard.  Play is probably not the word...

Babe:  “Today, Jack came in to put my puppies in the big bowl again.  Every time he does that, he writes down numbers.  When he was all done, he gave me a good scratch and told me that my puppies had gained almost 20 pounds in one week!  As he put my puppies back in the whelping box, there was something different about them. They got new collars!  Jack noticed that the puppies were big enough for the next size.  They all match their...

Babe:  “The lady talks a lot about socializing the puppies.  I have no idea what she means.  For some reason, it’s important to Jack and the lady and he puts her in charge of that. So she put some of those puppy sized people that come to our house in with my puppies.  There’s the big Katie puppy.  She likes to sit in the whelping box and let the puppies crawl all over her.  They scoot behind her and sit on her legs and...

Babe:  “If the puppies had a big day yesterday with their first taste of puppy food, today was a big day for Jack.  It was time to weigh the puppies again.  They were weighed every day for the first 14 days and then again today, day 22.  Jack was pretty happy.  It seems I have managed to up their weight by 12 1/4 pounds this week.  I think that’s why Jack decided to give them some food.  One puppy is over 4 pounds and another...

Mas:  “For those of you caught up in Babe and the puppies, allow me to introduce myself.  I’m the big dog around here.  Jack likes to think he’s in charge and I let him – most of the time. This weekend, I took Jack, Ron and Dash to a NAHRA field test at Northern Piedmont HRC.  Just as an example of the way I let Jack think he’s in charge, he drove.  That was fine with me.  I wanted to talk to the pups.  This...