What a day. Got home to discover the huz had forgotten to put up the new baby gate. There were only 3 puppies in the pen and Bailey had obviously made herself at home on my month old couch as her post whelping discharge had been smeared all over it. Mira and I dropped our stuff and began searching for the missing pups. We found Lucky sound asleep nestled in the folds of my backpack. Cygnus was a little harder to find..he was almost 30 feet away sleeping behind the recliner. The lamp had been knocked over, my charging station pulled off the wall and tangled up, a glass shelf broken.. and I was due at the vet with all six in tow in 15 minutes. Four hours later my house is clean, the pups are healthy, momma has been washed, the couch shampooed, floor scrubbed and the baby gate installed.
Good thing the couch is clean...The Huz will be sleeping there for at least a week! Yay for the pups being healthy. I also vote for Dune with Freeborn being a close second...I want one so bad but no room is the Phares house right now...
Oops is right! Thanks for letting him rush on home Saturday - he said he would've loved to hang around and talk... if it wasnt for the puppies in progress.
It's doubtful you are going to have any trouble finding new homes for the babies, but just in case, I'm sure one of my students would be able to adopt.
One week old. I'm the biggest softy you ever met for these pups. I sit and watch them when they pile up together, fat from milk. They rotate around as one writhing mewing entity getting comfy and p
POOF! THEY'RE asleep.
Cygnus and Lucky are the wanderers of the group..they are the most active and tend to find a way to trap themselves under a blanket or in a corner behind momma food bowl. Olive is still the loudest, Pollux and Dune eat together without fail. They're all pushing themselves up by their front paws trying to steady their heads and momma hovers over us when we all can no longer resist picking one of them up.
My pup, Splash, went to a pro trainer for 2 months, when she was 7months old. I warned the trainer she hadnt had her first heat cycle when I dropped her off. When I picked her up, he told me she was going through a false pregnancy - I thought little of it b/c I had Daschunds growing up that went through multiple FPs. Well, you guessed the rest.
Since Splash was so young, we opted to abort the litter. Unfortunately, it was fairly late term and overall a very traumatizing experience for us and the vet. At the end of the day, the trainer paid for everything, but swore she was NEVER in a kennel with a male (or another female for that matter). Thing is, a female in heat needs to have an empty kennel on either side, or at the very least females in adjacent kennels, if they are wire fenced. I was, and still am, very pissed about the whole deal. People that we trust our best friends with should know better - period.
Glad the pups are doing well and GL with everything. I've whelped one litter, growing up. One of the little ones didn't make it despite my tube feeding sessions around the clock. That was a little tough on me - I was only 14 or 15 years old.