3.5 Weeks Old...

These pups are so very sweet and polite. They are cuddlers and lovers. Liver Girl 4 (first to do so) and Liver Girl 2 have figured out that they can get a soaked and soggy piece of puppy kibble fed directly into their mouth by me. This is so cute, but very time consuming! It is all my fault. In an effort to teach them to actually pick up and chew instead of just lick, I started hand feeding one piece at a time. Now Liver Girl 4 EXPECTS me to do that! Oh my I have created a little spoiled Diva monster already. But how smart is that? It is not usually until a couple more weeks when they understand that my fingers can mean cookies (i.e. cookie dispensers). Liver Girl 4 has been doing this for a couple days, and now Liver Girl 2 figured it out as well. The other pups have all taken a soaked kibble from my hand or fingers, but they still like to lick and grunt on their own as they try to eat it. Liver Girl 4 will stop licking and come up to my hand and paw (probably a nursing reflex), but to understand that my hand means a kibble in her mouth, she chews and swallows. Usually puppies are so frantic crazy for the food that they just inhale it. These guys are a bit young yet, so maybe why they are so polite. But I tend to think they are geniuses of course... LOL