The puppies are already nine days old today. They grow like weeds and Rebel had already doubled his birth weight on day five. Wubbe, Maggie and Miley followed on day six. They are super content. They sleep and drink and drink and sleep... But they also have their active moments, zooming around the whelping box and climbing on top of their mother. Maeva enjoys her motherhood to the max. She's very caring and spends almost all her time with her babies. 

The puppies will squeal and whine a bit when they feel like the milk isn't flowing quickly enough or when they are positioned on the wrong side of their mom. Today they discovered they can also make other sounds with their voices and we've heard the first little 'growls'. 

The puppies had their first visitors this week. We believe it's good for mom and babies to not be disturbed too much during the first three weeks, but we make an exception for our close family. My mother and my sister, brother-in-law and their daughter Djo were special visitors, because they were also the first to visit when Maeva was only one week old.

Below you will find a selection of pictures of the first week and some of the ones we made yesterday. We collect the pictures in albums on Flickr:
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Week 1
Week 2

We are very proud, happy and excited to share that Suaralayn's "Turin Brakes" litter arrived Friday (Dec 1st) afternoon. Parents of this litter are

Dapper - GCH Am Ch Taji's After Six JC and
Maeva - NL Ch Suaralayn Chaos Junkie (50% new African)

Maeva gave birth to three red and white girls and two tricolor boys. Sadly, the first girl was a stillborn.

Maeva is taking wonderful care of her and Dapper's four babies and they are very vivid and strong, already climbing over their mother, bringing themselves in true Basenji trouble.

Because they will be our family members during their time at our home, we have found some "litter call names" so they don't have to go by number.

The big count down has begun: Maeva has mated with Dapper in the Czech Republic last Wednesday, October 4th! At the beginning of November we hope the ultrasound will confirm her pregnancy! Below you can find some pictures of Maeva's and Dapper's meeting.