That's Gael plugged in. He was the smallest at birth and remains so. Haymitch is not growing as fast as the girls or Peeta either but they are all doing very well. Gidget is starting to spend a bit of time away from them, she's still a bit nervous when she does so I am wandering around letting her in and out but she did stay on the floor in the family room for about 5 minutes this morning.
I change the bedding in the whelping box every time I feed her. She'll get out of the box to eat and is distracted enough that I can take the puppies out and put them into a dish pan lined with towels while I clean things up. Well, this morning, evidently my handling the puppies was stimulation enough to get them started pooping so I had an absolute mess again. I tried to catch them with baby wipes but they were too fast for me and 5 at once was beyond my abilities to keep clean. So, I had to clean up again. But by this time, she was finished eating and when she saw the puppies in the dish pan, she hopped right in on top of them. Scared me to death. Luckily I had about finished so I could pick her up and put her in the box and then put the babies back, none the worse for wear.
Here are some photos of each puppy:
Peeta (should have named him Jabba the Hut)
Prim
Katniss
Haymitch
And here's little Gael chowing down
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