March 2026

Madds/Lucille Litter 1: Week 7 Summary for 03/30/2026

Coswald March 30, 2026

All weights are in pounds.

Summary

Litter growth has slowed greatly during the last week. It’s more common than not around this time once Mama leaves the scene which is generally around this time. I suspect there will be a reversion to the mean for this litter over the following weeks when it comes to their weight. It’s a broken record: Mr. Onyx leads the way in the overall and by a longway. Ms. Pearl had the best week.

Pups have been going through alot of changes. Pups are mostly switched over to the nursery and out of the whelping boxes. They are seperated from each other through parts of the day. The two that have handled the separations the best are Mr. Onyx and Mr. Ruby. Neither of those two mind alone time, in or out of a crate. The two girls, Ms. Sapphire and Ms. Pearl will complain for a few minutes after first being in a crate and then settle in. Mr. Emerald hates it altogether. Once a person is not involved, he is unhappy. He is a people pup. He is handler/owner focused to a very high degree. He settles in eventually but it takes much longer.

They get a lot of outdoor time now. They spend alot of time out on a deck we have for them. They like it there.

Car rides have gone perfectly fine for the pups. I was expecting those to be very noisy experiences. They haven’t been at all which has been a surprise. The crate times have been way more noisy and more what I have expected for the car rides. All litters and pups within the litters can be very different from each other with Laekens.

Mr. Ruby takes after his father, Madds in so many ways. He is non-chalant towards people. He neither craves nor despises human attention. He is more interested in learning about things and not so much people or other dogs. His temperament is very much as is prescribed in the breed standard. Physically, he is a vert correct and exquisite example of the breed’s conformation.

Mr. Emerald is a people dog, through and through. He is also the boss of the litter. He is the head of the household’s dog on the hip so to speak. He wants to be involved in whatever his person(s) is doing. He is very intelligent, brave, loyal, and able and lives to do whatever his handler wants him to do. He wants to be the #1 dog in your life. He is definitely not a kennel dog.

Mr. Onyx is now spider-man. He scales walls like no other puppy we have had before him. He likes to explore and he is very confident, strong, and agile. Everytime he climbs out of something, he walks around like he owns the place. He is a show off.

The two girls, Ms. Sapphire and Ms. Pearl have been neck and neck with each other throughout their development from birth. There are only very nuanced differences between the two. Both are very middle of the road in all of their endeavors. They are likely to be easier to live with than the boys. They don’t over achieve in anything or under achieve in anything either. They are just solid girls. They are a pleasure to work with.

A note to all the above, these are belgian puppies still in development. So take all of this with a TON of salt.

Looking Ahead

Looking forward to the upcoming veterinary visit and time out in the public.

Have a good week and God bless.

Note: I will be trying to schedule posts to publish at the same time on days they occur, which right now, is planned to be 7 pm Eastern time. Hope that helps with people looking for them. If a post is ready before 7pm, it will go out that day. If not, it will go out the next day at 7pm. There might be multiple posts come out at that time on those days.

Madds/Lucille Litter 1: Week 6 Summary for 03/23/2026

Coswald March 23, 2026

All weights are in pounds.

Summary

It’s the Mr. Onyx show. He’s more than 8 pounds in week 6. He leads both the overall and the percentage gain this week. He doesn’t consume any more resources than any of the others, he just uses what he gets very efficiently. He doesn’t quite have as much coat as the others so he doesn’t really seem any bigger than the others until you look closely.

There is a new second place in Mr. Ruby. Ms. Sapphire solidly leads the girls now in 3rd place in the overall. Both the girls were both solidly in second for quite awhile and are now beginning to slip back from the boys. Mr. Emerald is no longer the smallest pup. It’s now Ms. Pearl. I believe Ms. Pearl has been adjusting to solid food more slowly than Ms. Sapphire and the boys. There is always a point in litter weight development where the girls start to give way to the boys and that time is usually when the pups move off of Mama’s milk and on to solid food. That time appears to be now for this litter too.

Puppy Development

The puppies have good food drive. Puppies love the raw beef the most, in steak form. But not so much the ground beef. The ground beef is their least favorite of all. Raw lamb with bone is liked very well as is raw pork ribs. It would seem they like their meets as unfettered with as possible. We haven’t done raw chicken or turkey yet. We may not get to that before they go home.

Puppies don’t want, and maybe they just don’t need, the raw milk anymore. They will eat some cheese, but them leave some. They seem to not want dairy much. They get water with their meat. They have a robust appetite for water (just a note on that, we have well water here).

Their diet is mostly ruminent meat and water, frequently on meaty bones of which they consume all, bone included. They do like cooked chicken and beef liver.

The big milestones are now happening. They have had their first two car rides this last week. The first was about 6 minutes and the second of about 20 minutes. They were way quieter than expected and the highlight was no car sickness on either trip. There was a little whinning on the first trip. At the end of the second 20 minute car ride, two of them were actually sleeping. At the stop of the first car ride, puppies came out of the crate with zero hesitation. The novel environment was not a deterrent.

They have had their first time out of the house and out on grass in an open space for play. See the prior post for a brief clip of the pups chasing Kellie around by the barn.

Mama just checks on pups, I imagine for social reasons. Outside of that, she keeps her nipples as far away from their teeth as she can.

Puppies are microchipped. Partially for contractual reasons and additionally for the upcoming veterinary checkup which will happen somewhere on or after their week 8 birthday.

For the next week, we will begin introducing them to the outside world in the form of taking them places with people (shopping and eating establishments are the most likely candidates) and introducing them to having some free interaction with other dogs (up until, they’ve been in a controlled setting).

That’s the update for this week. If you have any questions, let us know. Feel free to use the Contact Page or give us a text/call for comments or questions.

Have a good week and God bless.

Madds/Lucille Litter 1: Clip From Their First Time Out – 03/22/2026

Coswald March 22, 2026

The Laekenois puppies had their first time out. We managed to get some footage of the pups individually that we will be posting soon enough. Here is a video of the group running and stumbling and bumbling around. The highlight was the synchronized face plant late in the clip. Hope you enjoy the clip.