Puppy Sitting

I've moved house (again) this past week to housesit for an American family who are in the States for two months. In reality, the job involves more pet-sitting than house-sitting. They have two adult dogs, one cat and five puppies who were born five weeks before the family left the country (the owners say they were a little confused about the gestation period and didn't think about the consequences of having puppies just before heading overseas....)

Anyway...I'm learning lots about golden retriever pups. I'm getting the patterns of feeding, washing, breastfeeding (do they use that word for dogs?) and poopy scooping down.

The pups had their first lot of immunisations today. While I'm guessing this would usually entail a trip to the vet, the owners thought this unnecessary. One of the sons of the landlords is studying medicine and has had some experience jabbing the human species. I can read English. So between us, they left us with all the relevant equipment including immunisation booklets, injections, syringes....It was a first for the medical student to give injections to pets. It was a first for me to assist. But I think it went OK! Next Sunday we'll do it all again.