After the sad event of losing a puppy, more research was done, and the conclusion was reached that the puppies need to be weighed daily, just to make sure they are growing, so today we started. It is a challenge to distinguish some of the puppies. The firstborn, who most resembles his sire, Benelli, is easy to distinguish, as he is the largest. The 2 black males are easy to identify, as "Shadow" (that's his puppy name - his owners can pick a name for him when he comes home) is bigger and has a bit longer body, similar to Cocoa's sire, Commander Cody. The other black, "Shorty" (again - his puppy name) is quite a bit smaller, much like Cocoa's mother, Sparky. The girls are obvious, and since there is only one chocolate and one yellow, it would be hard to confuse them. However - the other two yellow males are less easy to separate. The main difference between those two is that the one that we christened "Wiggler" is quite a bit more active than any of the others. He has the personality that is most like Cocoa. The two chocolate males are the most difficult to tell apart. They both have calm personalities like their sire, and there is only a few grams difference in weight. Both will probably be about Cocoa's size when full-grown, but have builds more like Benelli.
Here are the starting weights, in birth order, with associated puppy names:
Yellow male - "Big Guy" (also sometimes referred to as "Benelli, Jr"): 61 g
Black male - "Shadow": 52.5 g
Yellow male - "Wiggler" 61 g
Chocolate male - "Brownie" 49.6 g
Chocolate female - "Mocha" 54 g
Chocolate male - "Snuggler" 44.5 g
Black male - "Shorty" 36.9 g
Yellow male - "Duke" 54 g
Yellow female - "Lady" 52.2 g
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