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Puppies at 5 week of age

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Puppies now  weight 25 oz. and 26 oz.  They are now very active and have started some serious playing with each other -- which includes "batting" at you with their paws.  They have become very curious about everything as their senses start to develop.  In each you can already see a difference in personality -- one is more outgoing and the other is more "stoic" and laid back.  The pigment on their noses is almost fully "filled in" and each of their toe pads have little spots of black where the pigment is also developing there.  They have now a grown a considerable amount of hair and as can be seen from the picture are taking on that "fluffy puppy look". Along with growing their coat their eye lashes have become quite long. They are not yet weaned -- they still prefer the food that mother has to offer.  I have started offering them some "puppy mush" -- a concoction of dry dog food soaked and mushed, canned condensed milk, baby rice cereal and or some Gerber baby meats.  They have just started cutting teeth -- the first teeth through are usually the baby canines.  You can, however, see the arch of the bite, so by this age should be able to get an idea of what the adult bite will be.  If a puppy is excessively undershot or over shot evidence is there by this age -- these two puppies have good bites at this age.

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