Wow, what a difference a week makes! I sit here, writing this post, listening to 10 hungry puppies devouring a fairly solid puppy porridge! This means that the weaning process is going really well, perhaps better than expected at this stage.

We have partly toilet trained the puppies! In so much as they are (mostly) going to the toilet in the litter tray, which is covered with newspapers.

They are growing nicely and have tripled their weight since we started weighing them 14 days ago!

The pups are play fighting and generally beating each other up at any given opportunity! There have been plenty of playground scraps, pinning each other down and chewing at ears and legs! Tilly doesn't seem to intervene too much, and lets them sort their own fights out!

She does however take exception to the odd pup when she is feeding them – I expect it could be down to the fact that they now have a fine set of teeth each- which are like little razors! The pups love chewing on your toes when we are cleaning their play pen!

"What goes in must come out" – so the pups are "pooing" for England! We are going through newspaper and toilet roll like it's going out of fashion….

The puppies have also been introduced to some toys, so they are enjoying playing with a miniature football and a small rubber ring and bone, as well as the odd toilet roll tube!

We have also had to make a few "adjustments" to the play pen, as the naughtier pups are trying to escape! They have taken to trying to climb out of the puppy pen and investigate what lies beyond! A piece of tough cardboard has been attached to the entrance to ensure that the pups don't escape, the only problem being that Tilly now has to hurdle this as she goes in to feed the pups!

Next week, we are looking forward to the second worming session for the pups,and will also need to start making arrangements to book the first set of puppy immunisations.