MaggieDog Weaning

MaggieDog is definitely weaning her puppies now. She lets them have little sips now and then, but never stretches out and gives them a full meal. She might stand or sit for just a minute, giving them time to latch on, but then she walks (or runs, if she hears a food sound) away, leaving them sprawled in her wake. She does a lot of what you see in the picture above - putting her mouth around their heads, gently pushing them away from her.

I'm keeping her in our bedroom at night because she still tries to clean up their poop, which I find perfectly disgusting now that they're having BIG SLOPPY POOPS. I think she really doesn't want to eat it anymore, because three times she has come to find me, quite distressed, and has raced back to the puppy room where there is a big poop to be cleaned up. This could be coincidence because there is, at any given time, a 76% chance of a poop in the puppy room. But I like to think she's as smart as Lassie: "What's that you say, Maggie? Someone has pooped???"