We decided to take the time to put out a valuable public service announcement (PSA) discussing a little known condition called Restless Pit Bull Syndrome or RPBS. Anyone with a television has likely heard of RLS (restless leg syndrome). RPBS has some symptoms in common with RLS, but the causes are quite different.
If you have pit bulls and are experiencing some of the following, you might be at risk for RPBS:
1.) Loss of feeling in the legs, feet or arms while reclining in bed. This is one of the key symptoms used in the diagnosis of RPBS. This is caused by large puppies resting their heads on your ankles, or laying across you, most likely while fast asleep and completely unaware of your plight. Depending on the size of said puppies, you may not be able to re-position yourself easily.
2.) Acute pain in your chest. This is normally caused by sharp little puppy elbows being pushed into your sternum when they sit up to check out noises. Don't worry. It is not a heart attack. It is simply another symptom of RPBS.
3.) Inability to breath. This can be cause by two things. The first cause may be that a large puppy has decided to go to sleep right on top of you. The second cause may stem from excessive licking in the face. This usually occurs in the middle of the night if your puppy wants to go out, or first thing in the morning when the puppy is ready to get up and play.
4.) Temporary loss of hearing in one ear. This is usually a result of a puppy licking your ear, during which time, you will not be able to hear anything but the puppy. Depending on how diligent the puppy is in his or her ear cleaning efforts, this may also be accompanied by popping of the ear being cleaned. This symptom is temporary.

There is no known feasible cure for RPBS. The only permanent solution is to have puppies sleep in their own bed. Pit bull snuggles are highly addictive however, thus rendering this solution undesirable. You may find temporary relief by getting a bigger bed- until the puppies are ready to actually go to sleep, at which point, they will snuggle back up to you again. 

Resistance to the pit bull snuggle is futile. Even the cats can't resist a good pittie snuggle.

We've decided that Mr. C missed his calling in life. With his gracefulness, he should have been a ballerina puppy. (That was sarcastic of course). After bringing the littles home, Mom worried about them falling off of the bed. Even though none of the dogs sleep in the bed, occasionally we bring  them onto the bed for a few minutes just to snuggle before sending them to their own beds. For about the first month that we had them home, Mom would wake up every night worried that we had forgotten to put them in their kennel and afraid that they had fallen off the bed- especially Mr. M since he was the smallest. She would pat around the bed in the dark trying to feel for the puppies, and Dad would ask what she was doing and then reassure her that they were safely asleep in their kennel.

In reality, Mom should have been more worried about Mr. C (currently the biggest of the puppies at 53 pounds). As it turns out, he is not in the least bit graceful, and to make matters worse, he likes to roll over on his back to sleep. Last weekend, Mr. C and the two littles were resting cozily on the bed- Miss B had decided that there were just way too many puppies on the bed and had gone back to her fleece pillow to stretch out by herself. Mr. C was laying precariously close (and parallel) to the edge of the bed. All of a sudden there was a loud BANG! CRASH! and just like that, Mr. C was no longer on the bed. Apparently, he had rolled over onto his back but ran out of bed and rolled off onto the floor. Oh the humanity! He snorted and walked over to nurse his bruised ego on his fleece pillow next to Miss B's. Miss S was extremely concerned about all of this and ran over to Mom for safety. She had a hard time falling back to sleep after that. Mr. M just looked up and then rolled back onto his back next to Mom's legs.
The worst part is that this is not the first time he's rolled off the bed. He fell off once before when the littles had been with us for about two weeks! So graceful and dignified!
In other news, we got a box. As it turns out, the box was more interesting to the puppies than the dog food that came in it.