It's now day 6 for the puppies! Almost a week since they were born.  Tilly is now beginning to get fed up of being in the whelping box all the time, and is quite happy to go for short walks around the village. We're not getting dragged back to the house quite so quickly these days!

Now that we've determined the sex of the puppies, it is time to register their official kennel names with the Kennel Club. This has meant that we have had to put our thinking caps on and find 10 names for the puppies plus 10 spare, in case the first 10 are not acceptable!

We have chosen a somewhat obvious Olympic theme, but we have also chosen to mix the olympic theme with the names of Scottish Islands, so that we stand a good chance of not having a duplicate name.

We've used the dog name checker facility on the Kennel Club website, to double check the names we have chosen are not being used elsewhere. Whilst this check is not completely fail safe, we are giving ourselves a better chance of getting the names we want first time.

At the end of the day, this is only a kennel club name and not the Pet name of the dog, but we need to have the official kennel club certificates ready for each new owner.

The pups are continuing to do well and are growing. There are some clear personalities developing within the litter, and there seems to be one girl pup that is the noisiest! She's the first one to kick up a commotion when she wants feeding. We also have a chunky girl pup who we've nicknamed "fat girl" as she's always the first to feed and is a lot chunkier and bigger than the rest. We can easily identify her, as she has got wrinkly legs – a bit like "Nora Batty's" stockings – for those of you who remember the "Last of the Summer Wine" programme on television!

None of the pups have opened their eyes yet, and they still look like they've run head first into a brick wall at speed! But we love them, and Tilly is being a great mum.

Here's some photos…..