Last night, when I uploaded the pictures...for whatever reason, they would not attach in the proper size, so I know it was very difficult (or maybe even downright impossible) to see exactly how gorgeous their little faces are now with their eyes open.....so Darlene's husband resent the pictures to me, and I downloaded them to my computer, and then uploaded them to the blog....and voila' -- perfect....thank you all for your patience.Tomorrow they are 3 weeks old and Darlene plans to begin with pan feeding them, and I will be visiting them this coming weekend...so you will get to see individual pictures. Puppies are now in a larger pen (see bottom picture) and can move around more and are already leaving their sheepskin bed to go over to their newspapers to potty...Dalmatians are really a wonderfully clean breed and usually super easy to potty train. Again...the boys have the blue background and the girls are pink.
Here are the face shots of the pups showing how pretty their facial markings are, as well as some group shots of them in their slightly larger pen....next week we will do individual shots and also reveal the litter theme!
And spotting patterns are beginning to emerge! Eyes are not yet open but are beginnging to crack just a wee bit in the inner corners; in a few days they will be more open. As you can see by their pictures, they are being taken care of in a wonderful fashion by momma Kirra...all are fat and happy. In the pix below, girls are on pink blankie and boys are on the blue, as is the whole gang with mom. Next time we post we will hope to get some good face shots...probably on Thursday or Friday of the coming week. 
At five days, the puppies are filling out and beginning to grow. Kirra is taking wonderfully good care of them. One boy is smaller than the others, but he is nursing well and even tho he might not be as big as his siblings right now, we expect he will catch up in short order. Next photoshoot and blog update will be Saturday, Sept. 18th
Kirra began to deliver her pups around 4:15 this am and finished a little after 11 am. Although there were 11 puppies born, unfortunately one little boy was still born and we could not revive him. Also, one of the little girls is VERY tiny and we are not sure that she will survive. Right now, we are hand feeding her every hour, alternating glucose solution (honey and water) with puppy formula. She does not want to nurse so we use a small syringe. If she makes it thru the next day and begins to actually nurse, we think she will have a good chance.... so, prayers for her, please. Kirra is UNBELIEVABLY relaxed about the whole thing....just as tho she had done this before (which she has not!). She carefully sorts them out and they are all carefully washed. We just need to be sure that the slightly smaller ones get the best nipples...but all the pups are very uniform....two larger ones are about 10 ounces and the remainder are about 8 ounces.... Little teeny is only 4.5 ounces tho. We will post weekly. 
