Violet's 2026 Puppies ~ 5 Weeks Old

Let's begin today with the puppies' updated photos because they are simply adorable!  Look at the intelligence and personality shining out of those little faces.  Click on their pictures to go to their individual pages for more photos and details on each puppy.

This four to five week age is my all time favorite time to take puppy photos because they can sit, they are interested in the world around them, but they are not always on the move (yet).  What you can't see is that they do not always sit perfectly still.  Let's take Sadie for example....

The puppies' world and experiences is expanding daily.  Since we raise them in home (in RV this time around), they are naturally exposed to all the daily family things.  In the past weeks, they've experienced sitting around a campfire, watching us eat meals, watching/hearing the children play backyard games like Can Jam, kickball, and baseball, hearing sounds of cleaning (including the vacuum cleaner), hearing a myriad of far-off tool sounds, experiencing various terrains from rocks to grass to beds to pillows to concrete to linoleum, and so much more!  Even at this age, the puppies spend most of their day sleeping, but each day they are getting more awake and ready to romp.

If your are a long-time blog reader, you know that begin house training our puppies at three weeks old.  Please visit my past blog here to learn about how we do that.  For this litter with the beautiful Pennsylvania June weather, we take them out many, many times a day to go potty.  It always amazes me how quickly they prefer going outside.

This age is also the age we begin the weaning process.  We begin using fresh goat milk from our homestead.  Goat milk is great place to start because it is gentle on their tummies, and it teaches them to lap.  Starting today, we will begin offering them Life's Abundance Small & Medium Breed Puppy Food soaked in milk.  Through all this, they are still getting fed by and cared for by their attentive mother Violet.

The proud parents - Violet & Pickett

Above are the sire and dam of our current litter.  Violet is the darker one in the back.  She is the daughter of Tachi & Cooper, and the only puppy of our own we've ever kept and raised.  She is sweet and docile, and loves to follow MJ or me around the house at all times.  Pickett is the great-grandson of our first schnauzer ever - Little Miss Jolly.  He is a very light salt & pepper.  (His son Tyke will likely look a lot like him.)  He is our son CJ's dog.  He's an energetic, fun-loving dog who enjoys a good run - see videos here and  here.

We will close the week again with some candid shots!  Several of these adorable little puppies are still available as of the posting of this blog.  Please contact us if interested!