grizzer – Jul 13, 2004 12:00 AM

Today Grizzer is 69 days old. When working with pups from different litters, there's always a concern about bonding between the pups. Nyssa is one week younger and her development is naturally behind the others. Each week, staff monitor the logs to make a comparison between the pups weights for their age. At 61 days, Grizzer was 21.4 lbs, Maya was 20.4 lbs, Nyssa was 20.2 lbs, while Malik and Shadow were 19.5 lbs. So even though Nyssa's smaller, she's on track with her packmates and ahead of Malik and Shadow at that age. There seems to be as much interaction between Grizzer and Nyssa as with Maya.