Baby Jack Russell

An update on the growth and development of the Christmas baby Jack Russell.

Newborn

His fur instead of being pure white looks yellowish. That's probably blood and the amniotic fluid that the mother will take a few days to thoroughly clean off.

Breastfeeding lessons

At birth, the pup doesn't know the existence of milk in the mother's nipples. That's hubby squeezing the milk out from ah mei's nipples and bringing baby to the milk to encourage him to suckle.

Success The pup learns to latch on to his mum's nipples. See his little tongue =)

Me n Pup

His eyes and ears are still closed. So he's probably blind and deaf at this moment.

2 weeks old

His ears have opened but not his eyes. You can see his fur is thoroughly dry and clean now.

Vampire (Jiang Shi) sleeping

They sleep alot at this stage.


In deeeeeep sleep

Proud mummy Baby is drinking milk again.

4 weeks old

See how much he has grown!



I'm falling.... Asleep

This is ah qiang our good friend who's also the owner, trying to coax baby to eat solid food. As you can see, the food wasn't very appealing to the pup who's fallen asleep.

Me, Mei and ah mei's baby haha

See how chubby his limbs are


Exploring

With mummy

Oh please give me some milk again

I can pose off as 101 Dalmatians

He's very chubby because as the only pup in this litter, he gets the milk from all 10 nipples. Technically only 6. The front 4 nipples are well, mm not very fruitful.


Fallen asleep again

And again

His fat tummy and crossed legs (kiau ka) makes me laugh

Lao gong was saying that baby's eyes looked blue and was worried that baby may be blind in one eye or both. There's a high possibility of defect cos this baby was born out of a dog and her own son. If baby can't find a new owner, she will have to be sent to Malaysia, where there's someone who wants to adopt him.

We're worried for baby as the conditions in Malaysia are not as good as singapore and the possiblity of baby being blind further complicates matters. We can't find anyone who wants a jack russell to date and we're at a dilemma whether to take him in ourselves. He was indeed a miracle baby who survived half an hour in a burst water bag and seeing him reminds me of how God answered our desperate prayers in the cab that night. But I already got 2 big dogs on my own how am I going to manage them with a hyperactive Jack Russell who may not even be easily toilet trained?

Oh help us God.