Chamois retires

Today Chamois aka Shabbi got spayed and went to live with her guardian family. The timing is just right for them. They are moving to California this summer and looking forward to taking Chamois with them. Thank you Chamois/Shabbi for the five beautiful puppies.

Poor Chamois, she was puking sick after her surgery today. The pups, on the other hand, are doing great and up and playing like nothing ever happened. The adults always do so much crappier than the puppies.

In Loving Memory of Baby Junior aka Riley

Baby Junior aka Mac aka Riley 7/31/2005-5/26/2007

3 weeks of age
5 weeks
2 months and much smaller than the others
4 months and finally getting bigger
Riley at almost a year
Riley is all grown up.

Good bye Riley. May you rest in peace.

Your life was short but sweet. Although I'm glad you didn't have to suffer long, I'm sad your mom is sad.

Beauty Queen

Look what Jill did today. She was a Little Miss 500 contestant for the Little 500. Yup, she's a princess.

Today is when Bessie was due to have her babies.

Jill the Graduate

Look what Jill did todayShe graduated from preschool! Sniff sniff * my baby is growing up. The silly girl covered her face with her diploma just when I snapped the picture. The camera battery died right then and I couldn't get another shot.

Bessie's puppies are getting a little stronger. They are eating better on their own now.

Chamois' puppies certainly are little cuties.

Bessie is doing just fine. Her puppies are really weak. It seems one of the pups had died inside her and that is what made her go in to labor early. These puppies are a bit premature. One of the survivors all but died today and another one looks like he might not make it. I'm tube feeding them and they are eating a little on their own.

Bessie and Bear had their litter

Bessie is due to have her puppies in six days. This morning her guardian mom called and said maybe it would be best if she brought Bessie here today, this morning. She said the other dogs are very interested in her (Bessie's) bottom, and she is not wanting to come out of the crate. I said that would be fine, that I have to errands to run so how about if you bring her in about three hours. She said um....how about if we don't wait that long. So, I skip the extra errands and just take Jill to school and come right back. The guardian dad brought Bessie over and didn't stay very long. As soon as he left I looked under Bessie's tail. ACK...there was a bulging sac! She is having her puppies right now! I quick-like ushered her in to the bathroom and grabbed my whelping bag. We settled in right away to have the puppies. ... um... We waited. ... Nothing happened. That is not good. The fluid in the sac was a dark greenish. The sac began to droop. That was really not good. I called the vet's office and said I was bringing in a whelping emergency. We hurried to the vet and just as I was backing the van in the (my) parking spot at the vet's office, Bessie let out a yelp and had the puppy. A beautiful brindle girl that was obviously dead. There was no reviving to be done. She was also premature. uh oh, this is really not good. I ran in the vet's office real quick to let them know what was going on and that I was taking Bessie back home. That was 1:30 p.m. We went back home and got Bessie settled in the masterbathroom.
#2 At 3:23 p.m. she had a dark brindle colored boy. He weighed 9 ounces was just fine. He has several tiny white spots going down his chest like buttons, and tiny white on his chin, nose, and toes on his back feet.
#3 3:35 p.m. light brindle girl born dead; I tried to revive her but she wouldn't come around.
#4 4:35 p.m. boy, 7.4 ounces, black, white crest. Tiny and weak.
#5 7:30 p.m. boy 9.5 ounces, black with a white chest and stripe to stomach, white mouth and chin, strong.
That seemed to be it. She didn't feel like she had any more in her. After a couple of hours I went to bed.
#6 at 2:30 in the morning I heard a commotion from the bathroom. I went in there and at first didn't see anything out of place. I did a quick pup count and saw there were four pups. There was another brindle boy, light in color, white chest 7.2 ounces and very weak and cold. They were all cold and not doing well.
#7 2:35 girl beautiful light brindle born dead. Tried to revive her but she wouldn't come around.
#8 5:30 a.m. girl (how can this be? she didn't look/feel like she had any more) born dead, very beautiful light brindle, her whole underside was white as were her feet. She still had pink around the edges which means it appears she had just died. I worked on her for 23 minutes trying to revive her. She just wouldn't "wake up".

Poor poor Bessie was also trying to revive her pups. She would snatch them right out of my hands as if saying "it's o.k., I've got it", put them on the floor, nudge them and paw at them, all the while whimpering.

All in all she had four girls and four boys. The girls were all born dead.
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Chamois and Tucker's pups at four weeks and two days old

Will
Phillip. Awww, Phillip is looking so sweet, and...uh...so much like his mother.
Carlton
Geoffrey and Jill. What a good boy Geoffrey is. He is just lying on his back enjoying life.

The puppies had their de-worming medicine today. I don't think they had worms, didn't see any in their stools. These guys all seem so healthy and robust.

Three weeks and one day old

Will
Phillip
Vivian
Carlton

The puppies are so cute now. Their eyes are open now. Here look:
Will.
Phillip
Vivian
Vivian