11 days old today.....and thought you might want to see how pretty their faces are....eye trims are all in (and soon their eyes will open) and noses are filling nicely also...
to make it easier on you....the boys have a blue background and the girls have a pink background so you can tell which are which....

TODAY WAS WEEK ONE WEIGH IN....AND WONDERFUL NEWS -- THEY HAVE ALL DOUBLED OR MORE....WHICH WHAT WE WANT TO SEE ON A NEW LITTER.....WEIGHTS NOW RANGE FROM 10.5 OUNCES (SHE WAS ONLY 4.8 OUNCES AT BIRTH) UP TO 1.2 LBS (AND THAT IS ANOTHER FEMALE - WHO WAS 7.7 AT BIRTH)....MOMMA JETTA IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB OF CARING FOR THEM AND KEEPING THEM CLEAN AND SUPER HAPPY.....I, ON THE OTHER HAND, STRESSED THEM BY CUTTING 110 LITTLE TOENAILS! PICTURES SHOW THE BOYS (7) AND THE GIRLS (4)....

ARE YOU BEGINING TO SEE SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES????? COMING THRU NOW ESPECIALLY ON TUMMIES AND FACES....THEY ARE NOW BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE REAL DALMATIAN PUPPIES!
TOMORROW IS ONE-WEEK ALREADY AND THEY WILL "CELEBRATE" BY HAVING THEIR FIRST PEDICURE AND ANOTHER WEIGH-IN!!!!

SOME SAD NEWS TO REPORT THO....TEENSY JOINED HER SISTER AND PASSED ON TODAY...SHE FOUGHT HARD BUT JUST WAS TOO SMALL TO CONTINUE THE FIGHT. WE ARE STILL A BIT TEARY-EYED BUT SHE WAS LOVED WHILE SHE WAS WITH US AND NOW GOD HAS HER.

4 days old.....gaining weight and even getting some spots! The picture of the two pups shows the largest and the smallest side by side....tooooo funny!

A NEW LITTER AT KAREFREE....

JETTA (CH. TRAMAC CALL ME KAREFREE 'N CARDEL) WAS BRED TO MONTY (CH MILLEDALS KAREFREE MONFORTE).

13 PUPPIES WERE BORN WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19TH !! 7 BOYS AND 6 GIRLS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE DID LOSE ONE GIRL SHORTLY AFTER THE WHELPING. ALL ARE BLACK SPOTTED (EVEN THO THEY ARE WHITE NOW) AND EVEN THO THEY ARE VERY TINY PUPS (MOM JETTA IS NOT A VERY BIG GIRL)...THEY SEEM TO BE THRIVING AND DOING WELL.....

THE LITTER IS BEING RAISED BY ALICE (CO-OWNER OF JETTA) AT HER HOME...WHICH IS ONLY 5 MINUTES AWAY FROM ME. RIGHT NOW SINCE THE PUPS ARE SMALL AND BRAND NEW SOMEONE IS WITH THEM ROUND THE CLOCK TO MONITOR FEEDING AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS THEIR FAIR SHARE OF MOMMA MILK, IN ADDITION WE SUPPLEMENT WITH A GOAT MILK FORMULA.