[Gia]

Two dwarfs were born in my kennel recently. A male, called Carinoso and a female - Valerosa. Val had problems with sucking right from the beginning, so I had to help her with eating. Carinoso has been fine ever since he was born. He ate on his own and grew well, though more slowly. He is quite solid, but Val is exceptionally small. Their weights can be followed on our kennel site. ( http://k-lee.wolfdog.org/en/szczeniaki/ )The first symptom which indicated that Carinoso could be a dwarf was that he was relatively short – he had shorter paws while their width was the same as of the healthy pups and his coat was more abundant. Val looked exactly like healthy pups only was much smaller.
The male opened his eyes with healthy pups and his whole development was the same except his appearance. The girl opened her eyes 8 days after the rest and her ears opened when she was close to 6 weeks. My observations indicate that dwarfs do not develop like other pups. They behave more like cats, especially Val. They have stiffer joints, so they started running smoothly a bit later. I’m not sure if the female sees and hears well. She bumps into things and reacts more slowly to my recall. She’s much more of a “lap dog”:/ teddy kind of animal than typical naught CSV pup. I can’t say how much they weigh now, because they’re too big for my kitchen scales.
As far as characters are concerned they seem to be more courageous and fear nothing – they were “attacking” the vacuum cleaner when the healthy pups were getting used to it.

I’ll willingly share my experiences if somebody is interested. My dwarfs’ photos are here:



http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...3&l=e13c216872

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...3&l=7efae66fc1


(Thanks to Rona for help with translation)