The pups are just about 4 weeks old now and are starting to explore their world.  They are very mobile and are starting to wrestle with each other.  We hear lots of little barks and growls.  They’re even nibbling a little on puppy food.  We’ve started to bring them out into the kitchen for brief “field [...]

The pups are two weeks now and are getting big.  Unfortunately, we lost one of the male pups over the weekend.  One male pup was just not growing.  At about 1 1/2 weeks old we wormed the pups and mom.  The pups were weighed to determine dosing.  All the pups were 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 [...]

Having this litter of pups, has created some questions about the different colorations Wachtelhunds can have.  We’ve always had brown schimmel in the past, even with Duke being the sire.  But, seeing the little “red” pup arrive, reminded us that there a number of recessive colors waiting to surprise us.  On the Wachtelhund forum, Dave Pepe, [...]