A week ago this was chaos. Now it’s a meal. The Game On litter has the hang of solid food — and they love it. A little over a week ago we shared the Game On litter’s very first taste of solid food — the messy, faceplanting, food-in-the-ears introduction that every litter goes through. If…
There’s a particular kind of joy that comes around the three-week mark in a litter, and it’s a messy one. This week our “Game On” puppies — the litter from BlazE and Etta — reached one of our favorite milestones: their very first taste of solid food. Three weeks old is our usual starting point.…
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By Albert & Terra Collver · June 16, 2026 Three weeks old and the Game On litter has discovered two new things this week: their feet, and their opinions. Sound on. Two weeks ago we wrote that the Game On litter had stopped being a row of small, sightless sausages and started becoming individuals who…
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BlazE nose-to-nose with Tracker, the puppy mid-yawn in Terra’s hands There are moments around a litter that don’t make it onto the weight chart or the milestone calendar, but stay with you anyway. This week we had one of them. For the first time, BlazE met one of his puppies face to face — and…
Day 16. Etta and the five liver-and-white puppies at top. The three black-and-white puppies — sisters Purdey, Domino, and Skeet — clustered together at the front of the box. They have been doing this for two days. A small mystery on Day 16 of the Game On litter, and an honest “we don’t know what…
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The five Game On girls — Purdey, Diver, Domino, Wildcard, and Skeet — on their two-week birthday, lined up in a Winchester cartridges crate in front of the sunflowers. The day every eye in the litter finally opened. Two weeks old today. Eight English Springer Spaniel puppies, born into a sunflower-and-shotgun-box world, who arrived on…
Continue readingTwo Weeks Old, Eight Pairs of Open Eyes — The Game On Litter Turns Fourteen Days
Skeet, on the morning her world doubled in size. There is a particular morning, somewhere between Day 10 and Day 14, when a litter of English Springer Spaniels stops being a row of small, content, sightless mammals and starts becoming a row of individuals who can see you back. This morning was that morning for…
Continue readingThe Game On Litter Looks Back — Five of Eight Eyes Are Opening on Day 13
Hunter, our second-biggest boy and today’s demo puppy, just before his first-ever bath. There’s a moment in every litter — usually somewhere around the start of the third week — when you realize the puppies have become slightly faster than they are tidy. They’re starting to move around the whelping box on purpose,…
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The Game On litter, eight days old, in their namesake — a vintage Winchester shotgun-cartridge crate. If you’ve seen this week’s litter announcement, you’ve already met our newest crew — and you’ve probably also seen the photograph that goes with it: eight tiny English Springer Spaniel puppies piled into an antique Winchester shotgun-cartridge…
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The whole Game On crew, bundled into one warm basket and ready to head to the vet. By Albert & Terra Collver · May 27, 2026 It is day two for the Game On litter — eight tiny passengers tucked into a warm basket, with Etta riding alongside, on their way to Franklin County…
