Monday, August 1, 2011

Lasya's 1st pup Misa turns a year-old

My Lhasa Apso Lasya gave birth to six healthy pups a year back on this date and four of them are celebrating their 1st birthday with their loving adoptive families. When they were two months old I had to move them out of their baby bed which had served the purpose of a whelping box. Now they had a lot more space in the balcony turned into a DogRun as they grew bigger and more active.


Lasya's first pup was a female born at 1.30pm on 2nd August 2010 whom I named Garkan Jampu which means the Dancing Mother in Tibetan. She has been renamed by her adoptive mother as Misa.This pup had the most unique and dramatic black and white markings on her chin and chest.


For identification I tagged Jampu with a white woolen strand but quickly came to realize just how dirty white can get on a tiny little pup. I then tagged her with lilac coloured wool - an idea I had earlier picked from some whelping videos on the Internet.


Born breach weighing 160gms this little puppy grew quickly to 700gms at 3 weeks and at 6 weeks she weighed 1.36kgs.


Misa got picked out first by her adoptive mother Vridhi who had put in her request for a pup when Lasya was barely 6 months-old herself!


Tagged with a lovely pink collar and bell by her new mother Misa began visiting her new home at 2 months age and soon began spending more time with them than with Lasya until the dam finally decided Misa belonged to a different pack or family. Misa is a little princess now along with her human sister and gets pampered with the best of dresses, accessories and spa treatments. Happy Birthday little girl!

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