I just have to share my puppy-mama-Tsuki experience today...

Tsuki's puppies are now just over 4 weeks old and starting to get their teeth. I have been wondering if they were ready for some solid foods as I feel they really suck the life out of their Mama all the time, feeding like little pistons (if you can imagine), their tiny teeth probably a bit uncomfortable for Mama.

I have given them the yolk of a boiled egg mixed into a wet paste with water and a bit of super-soaked dry dog food that is mostly dog food-water.

Anyway...today, I gave Tsuki a lamb rib, as I usually do every other day (the rib bones are so thin she can break up the bone and meat easily). She guards her bones fiercely from Sami, who also gets his own bone, and she usually gobbles hers down. But today, much to my utter amazement, she took the bone into her tiny puppies. They swarmed over it licking and trying to chew it while Tsuki perched above them on a box and guarded the scene. I was so touched at her amazing motherly instincts. She has been such an excellent mother keeping the puppies scrupulously clean and feeding them frequently. She has even come to get me a few times when a puppy needs help or lifting back into the enclosure. And now she is giving them her bone, weaning them herself now onto solids, doing all the work so expertly that I wonder why I have worried at all. And she normally is so greedy with her bone. I am just so wowed today seeing this act of Mothery.