ONE WEEK

After a week of getting regular meals and lots of attention the puppies looked ten times better.  They were filling out, and it was amazing!  Seven days.  A lot had happened.  A lovely woman came by to meet them and went home to talk to her boyfriend about possibly adopting.  They both learned to sit in one day. It took about five days for them to take a step with a leash around their necks.  They had probably never seen or felt one before.  They didn't like baths, but they sat still for them and made it easy on me.   And, after several days of blowout diarrhea caused by killing off their whip worms, they began to respond to crate training.  The taller one (Strelka) was the bravest and the quickest to bond with people, but even the little one (Belka) was learning that people were not so bad and grew quite bonded to me.  They started following me around the backyard like ducklings.  I bought them nice new collars and threw away the ratty red ones they had come to me in.