Abria delivered a litter of beautiful F1b English Goldendoodle puppies! There are four boys and one girl ranging from a medium to dark apricot in color. The puppies are eating and growing, just as they should be. Abria is a great mama. She spends nearly all of her time with her new family, leaving them only briefly a few times a day to go outside.
Newborn puppies are pretty helpless at first. Did you know puppies are born with their eyes and ears closed? That means they can’t see or hear and rely on their sense of smell and sense of touch for survival. But not being able to see or hear doesn’t keep them from making noise! Abria’s puppies squeak and whimper and grunt, especially when they’re crawling around looking for a place to nurse. Abria gently nudges them or licks them on the nose to help the puppies find her if they’re looking in the wrong direction. Puppies are instinctively attracted to heat, which means they pile close to their mama and close to each other. This is an incredibly important natural instinct because puppies have poor control their own body temperatures at first. Piling together helps everyone maintain a higher body temperature. Staying warm is key to gaining weight because puppies need to spend their calories on growing instead of exhausting them trying to keep warm. Plus puppies can’t digest when they’re cold. We monitor the room temperature carefully to ensure that it stays between 85°-90°. A new puppy’s main jobs are to sleep, eat, and grow. Newborn puppies twitch and move involuntarily in their sleep. This serves to help build muscle and is known as activated sleep. When they’re not eating, they’re sleeping, and when they’re not sleeping, they’re eating. And of course they’re growing all of the time!