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V-Litter

born: 31.12.2024

3 males - 6 females

1 day after birth:
Hurray, we're here! Just in time on New Year's Eve we saw the light of day as 9 little lucky charms! Our mom Nyssa, who was freshly groomed as preparation for the birth, and we are all doing well and are now enjoying the loving care and our cozy nest in which we spent our first hours sleeping and drinking milk. Here in our Weekly we will give you an update on our development every week and let you participate in our life. Now we enjoy life and wish you all a healthy, satisfied and happy New Year! Your V's

1st week:
Our life is still somewhat unspectacular: drinking milk, sleeping (in every situation), being cleaned. And yet we are really cute and you could watch us all day. Our mom is very caring and clean. Sometimes too clean... As soon as we have fought for a teat, she eagerly cleans us away again. But we still manage to feed everyone. According to the size of our litter, we are also gaining weight well. If this continues, we will quickly grow big and strong. We look forward to the next report next weekend. Maybe we can tell you some interesting news. Until then, we wish you a nice long weekend! Your Styrian Spirit V's.

2nd week:
Things are slowly becoming more active here. A lot has happened this week. The first highlight was moving into our own space - the "Puppy Lounge". A room entirely for us and our mom alone. Here we can grow in peace and play and have fun later. We are already opening our eyes and starting to notice loud noises. Sometimes we already sit in our whelping box and try to understand our environment through intense sniffing. The first shaky attempts to walk outside our whelping box are already being made. Still very uncoordinated and a bit "top-heavy" - we like to tip forward :-) We've also already outgrown our first collars and have therefore gotten our new colorful collars. This is how we shine in new splendor. The first claw care was also on our weekly schedule. With so much excitement, we have to drink a lot of milk and sleep every now and then. The space next to mom is getting a little tighter. We're also starting to train our vocal cords, which is really fun. We sound like little pigeons cooing. But we're also trying to bark. And our siblings and our mom also become interesting. You can nibble on some ears or legs. Thank God we don't have any teeth yet :o) See you soon - your V's.

3rd week:
Another week has passed and we have also gained many new experiences this week. Our eyes and ears are now completely open. We can hear when our “foster mom” Katharina calls us “Wuzzi, Wuzzi” and quickly raise our heads to find out where the calls are coming from. Our eyes are still a little cloudy and bluish and we can't see quite clearly yet, but that will get better. Of course we still sleep most of the day, but in between we are quite mobile. We're already walking unsteadily and trying to play with each other. It is still difficult to coordinate all four legs. But we're slowly getting the hang of it. We paw at each other, throw each other over, then roll around. We nibble on each other or sit together in the whelping box, raise our heads to the ceiling and start a chorus of howls. That sounds a bit pitiful at the moment, but that's all you can get out of such a small dog :-) In between, we're already moving around in our whelping area and exploring it. As soon as we see properly, we also get toys. Our mom Nyssa looks after us very well, cleans us impeccably and also serves as a pillow or sleeping surface for us every now and then. We have already tripled or almost quadrupled our birth weight and already weigh over 1 kg. We are very excited to see what next week will bring. We will report on it - your V's.

4th week:
Imagine, this week we have already been taken outside regularly to learn how to do our licks and chops there. Katharina usually only allows us a few minutes so that we can get back into the warm as quickly as possible and not catch a cold. But we are already doing our “job” very well, and there are rarely a few “oops” to be found inside. We are now really mobile, running and cantering around the room and have already learned to run to Katharina in response to the “Wuzzi” calls. In addition, at the end of the 3rd week we were given real food for the first time: the finest beef tartare. Mmhhhh, that was tasty! Since the weekend we are no longer fed individually, but we have learned to eat from our feeding trough ourselves. Not that easy - we would prefer to stand with all fours in the feed. Katharina has her hands full trying to prevent this. But things are getting better every time. The feeding plan now also changes every week. We are fed raw foods. And special attention must be paid to our needs. We're already fighting with each other a bit, biting each other and burning off a little energy. Then we all fall asleep again, just about to fall over. Be it in the whelping box, in the feeding trough or on our mom, who patiently puts up with it. But her patience also has limits. We're already pushing it a bit by biting and pulling on her teats. We are then immediately reprimanded - the education has apparently begun... The space in our whelping box and at mom's milk bar is slowly becoming more and more limited. We grow like mushrooms and have already multiplied our birth weight. The highlight this week was certainly the toys that Katharina put in our whelping room. At first we examined it very carefully and with interest, then of course everything was nibbled. Just like Katharina's trouser legs and shoes. Because this week our sharp little teeth also broke through. Katharina has already felt this a few times :-) Finally, we go back to sleep and assume the typical Airedale sleeping position - turned on our backs and all fours stretched upwards. See you next week then! Your V's.

5th week:
We grow and grow. Carrying us becomes really difficult... This week we were dewormed for the second time. Our toys are slowly becoming more and more interesting to us. So that we don't get bored and, above all, so that we learn to deal with environmental situations better, Katharina has built our own little adventure park, which is constantly being expanded. We have various surfaces there, including grilles and a wobbly old slatted (spring) frame. But as true Airedales, we of course have no fear. We'll try everything straight away. This week we were even able to enjoy a little bit of sunshine. We didn't want to go in there anymore. Speaking of going in: at Katharina's call, we walk alone over our small ramp and through the dog flap back to our puppy lounge. We learn sooo quickly - Airedale of course (Hahaha!).Although we don't really differ significantly in character and, above all, we haven't yet settled into it, sometimes subtile differences can already be seen. Sometimes one is braver, sometimes the other. Small visual differences can now also be seen. Let's see how we will develop. But our absolute favorite activity is to bite Katharina's fingers, toes or Achilles tendons and then shake our head really hard with our sharp little teeth. Particularly effective if you hit exactly the nail bed. If we could laugh, it would probably drown out the screams of our victims. Mom continues to do a good job raising us and is now slowly starting to wean us. It's probably also because we're now starting to bite her teats and pull on them... So, that's it for this week. We're excited to see what next week brings. Especially as next weekend we are able to meet our future families for the first time! Until then, all the best - your V's.