Nordic Woof's Golden Retrievers

Good morning everyone! Puppies are doing okay and are active and bouncing around playing and eating and drinking. HOWEVER, on Wednesday Light Blue Girl had refused breakfast and thrown up a tiny bit. She also presented with a little tummy ache. She would still play and bounce around but was certainly feeling under the weather. We also noticed 2 other puppies with a mushy soft stool and by that evening had a slight dirrirah to it. We grabbed fecal samples and got those into our vet. During wensday we monitored light blue girl and the entire litter closely. Light Blue was pulled into her own xpen setup into another room and she recieved Karo syrup and hydration through the day on and off since she didnt want to eat, but we wanted to ensure her sugar levels remaind balanced and well. The following morning on Thursday, she seemed totally fine. Back to her usual very playful and bouncy self. Happily ate and very eagerly did so. I had called my vet on wensday to discuss bringing her in or of course to the er. But she never presented with emergency level concerns. As she was just under the weather looking but still active. No fever, heart rate fine, gums nice and pink and not at all dehydrated, and at the time still wasnt even pooping for us to see if she had mushy stool like the other 2 mystery mushy poops. My vet at the time told me they very much doubted anything other then maybe overeating, or maybe she ate some poop from the litterbox and ingested some of the litter pellets and gave herself a tummy ache. As a few of the puppies this past week have gone and eaten a bit of poop. Which is gross but is a common puppy habbit most every puppy partakes in at some awfle point. Anyway- their fecal samples were negative for gerdia and cocoddia and any other things that could be found at their 6 week old vet visit. BUT TODAY, I did get the call back that indeed they managed to get cocciddida. Dispite keeping things as inasnely clean as possible. It's a very annoying and common puppy parasite that - especially in larger litters is easy to get. Usually by tracking poop through a water dish or eating infected poop. Now again, everyone was negative for this just a week and a half ago, so somehow that was contracted in and they got it. So thats the bad news. The good news, everyone is FINE and active. They have some mushy stools and some dirrirah here and there. It isn't like a war zone of dirrirah, there is no blood in any of the dirrirah, no one is throwing up, no one is dehydrated, no one is lethargic, and all are still eating and drinking fine. This was caught very early. Light Blue only threw up a little bit on wensday but nothing since and she is back on food and keeping it down fine. So how does this get fixed? Well thankfully it's very common which also means it's very common to treat. And it's why we always fecal test them at 6 weeks and then the moment anything seems off I test again. In this case, I was right to test again. So they all will be getting Albon 125mg tablets to take to cure the cocciddida. It is a sulfa based medication to cure it. I have included some youtube links for you to help better explaine cocciddida, what it is and how they can get it. Mother and puppies have been wormed. Mom was wormed prior to breeding, again prior to whelping and again when puppies were 2 weeks old. Puppies were wormed at 2,3,4,6 weeks (and will be again at 8 weeks.) But cocciddida is not a worm, so traditional wormer isnt something to kill it. It's feasible it was in contaminated water or something as they and mom were not carriers of it prior to a week and a half ago. Anyway, we will get this cured. I just want to reach out and inform all of you! If you have plans to come pickup your puppy soon. 2 options; 1, you can hold off on picking up your puppy until we have fully medicated the babies and there is a negative fecal again. Or, if you do not want to change your plans and still wish to come pickup your puppy, then we can send you home with the medication to continue treatment and we will additionally COVER any further medication for the treatment if for any reason you need more. It is a simple little tablet pill your puppy will take daily, and then re test a fecal sample. I will also cover the fecal sample cost of course. Please reach out to me and let me know how you would each like to proceed. :) *Light Blue went home with her family today and they will be giving her the medication. *Because our vet truly felt it was not likely anything major - we drove up yesterday to meet them half way. This morning I got the call we had a positive fecal.

Babies on 9/20/26 and their messy messy pen. They kicked some of their food around and tracked some litter out of their box. But you get to see what it looks like at it's "worst." This was almost 11pm at night after I finally finished prepping all the puppy go home baskets and finished everyone's paperwork folders. All puppies got microchips on 9/20/26. All go home folders are completed, all go home baskets are packed. They will go home with akc folders containing their akc papers, pedigree, 5yr health warrenty/contract, vet paperwork, print outs of their parents ofa/dna testing, their evaluation test sheet(score sheet), puppy quick guide sheet, puppy care handout sheets, 5 to 7 teething toys, 7 chews and 1 bully stick, 2 or 3 stuffed animal toys, 1 dog bed, 1 steel bowl, 3 rolls of potty bags, wet wipes, potty pads, 8 cups of their kibble, leash and collar, Collapseable water bowel for travel, a pawpront memories kit, and a blanket that has been rubbed over all of them to contain their siblings and mothers scent. And probably a few other things I have forgotten that I tucked in there. :) Daddy Tundra laying in the background of the baskets.

All Puppy test sheets.

Puppy evaluations were tested today, all videos are uploaded to our youtube channel @nordicwoof we are now starting the sorting and pairing process. Going through all of our pages of notes, what each family needs first, and what they want second.

Puppies had their vet visit today and everyone was a perfect angel. Everyone even held their potty needs until we returned home and they all ran off to the litterbox to use it like good babies. Vet gave them all their first set of shots, and a wormer. (They have been wormed by us with Namex-2 at 2, 3, and 4 weeks of age. Then today by the vet at 6 weeks. They will get another wormer dose with us at 8 weeks.) Sunday we will do their microchips. Each puppy sounded healthy (no heart murmers, as expected.) Everyone is bright, happy and outgoing and not a single puppy was stressed with the experience. Everyone has good bites and passed their wellness check beautifully. Each puppy has 10 to 13 individual photos and their individual videos uploaded to their personal pages. * Light Blue Girl and Green Boy DO indeed have 2 videos, yes. I took their videos first in the day and then realized they were extremely short compared to their siblings. So after the vet visit I re-took video of those 2 puppies which were longer. All the video otherwise was right after they were blow dried from their baths. Also I added a little short video of their daddy Tundra, who was checking in on everyone all morning.

The babies got introduced to their new toy gym and a crinkle tunnel toy last night. The toy gym is a permanent addition to their space from here forward. We add it right arounf 5.5 to 6 weeks of age. The crinkle tunnle toy is only given to them under full supervision. (They can shred it otherwise.) Everyone had a blast and were all very outgoing and eager to inspect and play with everything new added to their space. Litter training is going very well and we have almost no accidents outside the litter trey for a big litter of 10 puppies, we get maybe one or two pee spots just outside of it a day currently. The video was taking ages to upload on here, but I do have it uploaded on our youtube @nordicwoof. Or you can copy and paste this link directly to the youtube video. It is a bit over 12 minutes long. :) Video link: https://youtu.be/6RehteByXtU?is=vILsUmDxBuTp_8hq

Videos of the babies from 9/3/26. They are doing well and growing nicely, the babies have all just started eating puppy mush food 4 times a day in little meals and of course are still nursing on their mommy Shimmer at this age. :) Each puppy's page has their videos as well as individual new photos updated to their pages.