The Life of a Doting Grandmother

So, the puppies have been here for a week.  Niko is doing a great job as a mom.  If fact, sometimes its almost TOO good of a job.  For example, I suddenly thought of some advice I wanted to give her, but this was about as close to the whelping box as I could get

Or would want to for that matter.  I like it better on the outside than inside the box.

Here' what I see whenever I look over at the box:

 

Nevertheless, staff was able to get some great pictures of the puppies.  They still sleep in piles

 

 

 Can you spot all seven puppies in this picture?

 

And feeding time-I remeber that well

 

And more sleeping puppies