Five week Update

5 wks and 3 days old, it's starting to be apparent that these darling little puppies that fill our hearts (and fill every inch of sound in the house) are quickly coming into their own (personalities, determination, attention getting) and getting very obvious they are house guests now getting ready to grow up and leave the nest.


Here's weight for the puppies, about 5 wks old they start staying their size of the kleinpudels, some still look like little frogs (namely Cova), some (like Claudia) are trim and like it that way. Cory is growing tall and Colby is slowing down in weight. Claudia is surprisingly looking small but still weighs the most. Courtney looks like a little doll perfectly square, also stays on the trim side. Claire always has eye contact. Cara is scooting around, Jim calls her the instigator. Carly is the quiet one, she's easy to misplace, she doesn't demand attention. Claudia and Conner are the most cuddly and will sit on your lap without squiggling like the others, oh my gosh, for maybe over a minute.

The best part for me? they all have happy faces and wiggly tails, all of them have great personalities, we are starting to become aware how little time we have with our sweet little house guests and how much they have stolen our hearts.


2#8 Claire
2#10 Courtney
2#13 Collette
2#15 Cova
3#4 Colby
3#7 Cara
3#11 Carly
3#11 Cory
3#12 Claudia
3#12 Conner

funny story. These puppies have been a challenge to keep enclosed today. They were able to play in the hallway this weekend with visitors and got use to having lots of attention. This morning these guys are chirping, can't seem to find what they need. I finally opened the back porch area and the bathroom so they could explore,  I'm like, whew, quiet! a couple of minutes later lots of chirping (will I ever get pictures on the blog?), I go around the corner to the puppy room and there's a couple of puppies that have escaped the exercise pen. I hug them and kiss them and bend over to put the first puppy back and my eye quickly counts five puppies! oh my gosh! where's my puppies I ask Tigre'. I quickly look everywhere, no puppies to be found, my heart steps up a beat. I think, ah-ha the doggy door! sure enough four more puppies playing outside the doggy door. I count again 1-2...9,     9!  where's (with a quick look) Collette, oh my gosh where is Collette? I open the side door with the doggy door, walk down the side of the house, go around the corner, and yeah, she's playing with Tigre'. [Tigre' is everywhere with these puppies, she loves the puppies, Everad will come get us when someone is out of the exercise pen, but this time he wash't around). She sees me and her tail about wiggles off of her body, [like she says] "oh I'm so glad to see you, I'm playing with Tigre' outside", I pick her up and she bathes me with kisses all the way back inside back into the safe zone. I call it the safe zone due to they are contained and won't get hurt or fall off of something or get run over by the big poodles playing, etc. But no she's just delighted with herself like jiggly jelly

Earlier Claire was the escapee but with Cory and Carly. They ease out like momma gets into the exercise pen, squishing their bodies in between the pen and the wall, pushing, pushing until they get through.  My gosh these guys are quick learners.


This morning about 6am I'm cleaning up after their nighttime poo (on the potty park mostly but still has to be cleaned up), I leave them on the other side of the pen so I can roll up the paper and clean down to the floor. Oh here comes Cova, chirp-chirp-chirp ... but I want you she seems to say. Right behind her now on both sides of the pen here comes one puppy after another. Soon, they are all jumping up and down on my pants (important point here, where pants with small puppies) soon there are a couple outside of the pen realizing they aren't with the others and chirp-chirp-chirp, puppies have to come into the pen.

Like I always say, poodles love to play and they love to be with their people. This litter are social little cridders, maybe Everad's influence in the gene pool? These little puppies are a crack up, they want to be with their people.