Puppy play zone

Almost time to graduate from the whelping room to the puppy playpen!  We’ve been camped out in “the whelping room” for 3 weeks.  It’s actually a spare bedroom that I use as my exercise room which is then converted to an under-water themed play and sleep room when my granddaughters visit.  Now it’s a whelping room.   I started sleeping up there the week before Zoey’s due date and have been tucked away up there with her since.

This being Miss Zoey’s first litter she’s been extremely protective.  Our poor cat can’t even get near the stairs, and poor Miss Jackie – Zoey’s BFF- made the mistake of putting her paws on the baby gate just to have a peak into the whelping room.  Zoey charged and slammed into the gate scaring poor Miss Jackie (and us) half to death.

But that was more than a week ago and she’s starting to calm down a bit now.  She made a big stride today when she let our friend Jared come into the bedroom and sit by the whelping box.  She loves Jared, but even for him it was a slow progression from the bottom of the stairs to the top and then eventually into the whelping room – lots of reassurance along the way.   We sat and talked for almost an hour before Zoey finally decided he was trustworthy enough that she could nap or leave the room with him there.

We’ll see how it goes over the next few days, but I’ve got the new play area set up downstairs in our entryway just waiting for some puppy chaos.

Oh!  And, as promised, I took videos!  And guess what?  My camcorder is so old (12 years) that there seems to be no possible way to transfer the video to the PC.  No support beyond Windows 8.  Used up most of my Saturday morning figuring that out and trying every work-around I could think of.  By Saturday afternoon, in a huff, I went and bought a new camcorder.  I WILL have videos of the pups this week.