Lacey and DaVinci's puppies

We paid a visit to Lacey, DaVinci, Cloe (a Deni/Koby adult puppy pet that lives in the same home) and the puppies. They are as beautiful and their pups from Lacey's first 2 litters. Lacey looks great, you'd never even know she has puppies. DaVinci is looking dapper. They say he is a different dog since he got neutered last month. He has calmed way down and sleeps all the time.
We weighed and microchipped the puppies while we were there. They are way so much bigger than PB's puppies, but not as old.
Harley is a pretty boy. He is going to have a beautiful coat and look like his mother when he grows up. He weighs 3 pounds 13 ounces.
Lexie is the next to smallest at 3 pounds 10 ounces.
Miley weighs 3 pounds 13 ounces.
Bernie is the biggest at 4 pounds 5 ounces.
Pearl is my favorite. I love her coat. It is glossy and will be a terrific fleeces. She is going to look like a black version of her mom when she grows up. She weighs 3 pounds 14 ounces.
Betty is the smallest at 3 pounds 4 ounces.
Marley is the second biggest at 4 pounds 3 ounces.

Peanut and Bradley's puppies

Just look at these puppies. They are so cute and so tiny. It is hilarious to see them running around and playing and doing the same things as the doodle puppies, but in micro form.
This is Ginter (Gunter), also known as The Crow. He is the first born and the biggest. He weighs a whopping two pounds.
Here is Jelliehere is another picture of herShe is the second born, the only girl, and the smallest of the litter, 1 pound 7 ounces. She is definitely her mother's daughter. Michelle wants to keep her.
This is Tod/Tyler with a There is another pictureThis one is my favorite. If we were keeping one, he would be my choice. He is so cute, has great markings, and will have a long coat. He is the smallest boy, 1 pound 8 ounces.
This is Wall E, aka Tyler with 3 spots. He weighs 1 pound 11 ounces. He is the cuddler of the bunch. He just wants a nice old comfy cozy lap in which to sleep. He is going to make someone very happy. Kristin hopes she will get to take him when she gets an apartment.

Peanut goes back to the vet

Peanut started having diarrhea again. She is no where near as bad as last time. It just started yesterday and is not total liquid (yet). I left work early (I still looove my job) and took her to the vet that is less than a block from my house. I really like this vet. It is the first time I met her. She called the vet hospital were PB was before and found out what all they tested her for and treated her with. The hospital never did figure out just what it was. They simply treated her broad spectrum antibiotics and deworming. This vet did an additional test and found out exactly what it is, and gave me the medicine for it. She also gave me medicine for Bradley to treat him so they won't pass it back it and forth. Total cost? Less than $50.00. I like this vet.

Poor Fred

Michelle's favorite puppy's name is Fred. Right from the very beginning Fred was the most talkative and most mobile one in the pack. He seemed perfectly normal and healthy. Over time he gradually became skinny and got a big head. Yesterday he started crying more, and by night time he yelled whenever he was awake. Today he started screaming whenever he was awake. We can no longer put off what needs to be done. It is completely obvious he is hydrocephalic (water on the brain), has a horrible headache, and will die an agonizing death if we don't have it done humanely. I called around to find a vet that is open and will see us right away. Today is Saturday (of course). I ended up going to the vet hospital where Peanut Butter was recently. Because Poor Fred is so tiny, less than a pound, they had to have him breathe in some sleepy-time gas so he would be asleep (literally) when they injected the euthanasia serum directly into his heart. Poor Fred is dead. This has really affected Michelle. It was kind of hard on me too, but I've been around and have learned not to let myself get too attached anymore. For Michelle though, this is her first litter and this was her favorite puppy. This is the puppy she always held whenever she watched TV or cruised the 'net. She loves her Chihuahua's and was all set to keep this little puppy. She couldn't/didn't go to the vet with me. Poor Michelle, I hate seeing her go through this. I understand though, I've been there/done that/wrote the book.

Peanut now has four puppies. She is doing well now.

Lacey and DaVinci have puppies!!

Oh my goodness! I just found out Lacey had puppies at her guardian's house last week. I didn't even know for sure she was pregnant. Lacey and DaVinci live at the same guardian home. Their parents tried to keep them apart during her cycle so she wouldn't get pregnant this cycle. Well stuff happens and they did get hooked up once or twice. That is all it took. She has 7 puppies. She has:
1 chocolate girl
1 chocolate boy
3 black girls
2 black boys
They seem to all be healthy and beautiful.
The guardian daddy built a whelping box and they are going to raise the pups.

PB comes home

Peanut Butter got to come home from the hospital today. Let's see...a Sunday night shift trip to the ER and a 24 hour stay in the hospital...do you think maybe it was expensive? Yes, as a matter of fact it was. It was around $550.00 or so. We are going to continue syringe feeding until PB feels better. I tried tube feeding them, but they choked more then the doodle puppies. I just didn't feel comfortable doing it. Michelle is such a big help. She is pitching right in and doing as much, if not more, than I am. She is more than happy to do what needs to be done as long as I let her know what to do. I'm so not used to that. It is great. I was able to go to work today because Michelle was home and fed the pups. Anyway, we brought PB home and she is much better.

Peanut goes to the hospital

Over the past couple of days, PB's stools have become more and more diarrhea'ish. By this evening is was pure liquid and just constantly coming out of her like a faucet. She did not have control over her bowels. The poor doggie had this crazed look in her eyes and she was licking her back end raw. She is so little that I knew she was dehydrated and couldn't wait until tomorrow to go to the doctor. Michelle and I bundled her up and took her to the doggie hospital. They kept her there and put her on IV fluids. I wanted to cry. For starters, I felt badly for PB. She looked really bad and I knew she felt as bad as she looked. For selfish reasons I wanted to cry because now I have 5 baby puppies to feed and take care of. Maaaannn I so don't want to go through this.

dead puppy

Oh man, I so should know better. I should have either slept with Peanut Butter and her puppies, or let them sleep with us. I knew better. Instead, I put them in a big crate in another room, put my ear plugs in (grrrr I was so wrong), and went to bed. When Michelle got up this morning and checked on them, she brought a dead puppy to me. A skull-cap size of the head was gone and one of the eyes was bulged. My guess is it was born feet first and the head was stuck in PB for awhile. Since I wasn't there to pull her (yes, of course she was a beautiful girl) so much pressure built up in her, the top of her head blew open. It was horrible, like a horror movie.
The rest of the puppies are doing very well. Peanut Butter is a great mom.

puppies

We got 5 healthy cute Chihuahua puppies. I'll tell you all about it later. Right now I can barely keep my eyes open.

Another update

I absolutely love my prison job. It is so cool. This is the same prison where a couple pups I donated were trained. Let's see...what else is going on.

-Maureen went to her forever home. Although she did pass her hip testing, I decided not to keep her back for breeding. I love my day job and want to scale back my breeding program.
-DaVinci had surgery to remove some skin cancer. The vet says it is not hereditary and it is not something he could pass to his puppies.
-Francie did not get pregnant.
-Tucker is a daddy. He mated with a southern girl.
-Peanut is in labor. This is my first nondoodle litter and I'm excited.
-A neighbor brought over a Chihuahua last week. This little dog just wondered into his home through his doggie door. He has an 8 ft privacy fence. Now just tell me how she managed to scale that fence to get in his yard. I'll tell you what I think. I think Grandma died and the family didn't want to mess with her elderly dog so they tossed her into Travis' back yard. Travis (neighbor) has an immunosuppressed dog and couldn't keep a stray around. I took her thinking it wouldn't take too long to find her family. I carried her around the neighborhood talking to neighbors hoping someone would come running out saying "there is my baby". Well, not only did that not happen, I found a dirty matted stray Shih Tzu. One of the neighbors said they have seen him wondering around for a while. Man...what else could I do? I took him home. I kept him for a week before turning him over to the Shih Tzu rescue. They put him in a foster home and are going to adopt him out. In the time I had him I gave him 3 baths, worked out his mats, de-flea'd him, de-wormed him (he was crawling with fleas and his poo was crawling with wiggly worms), and gave him lots of lovin'. He was a friendly happy little guy and he will make a terrific pet. Unfortunately he is still intact and he and Bradly had a pee war going on. Anyway, back to the stray Chihuahua...well I'll save her for another post. Anybody want a chihuahua?
I'm sure there is lots more to tell, but I need to get up and get cleaning.

what's happened?

Where have you been? You've missed all the excitement. That is o.k. (I guess)...I'll fill you in:

-All of Francie's puppies have forever families except Maureen.
-Maureen passed her pre-breeding hip testing and is looking for a forever-type
of guardian family who wants to help raise the puppies.
-Peanut Butter has a live-in husband. He is a cute adult Chihuahua stud boy.
-Bessie cycled and went to KY to breed with a beautiful Goldendoodle.
Unfortunately, it was too late in her cycle and they didn't breed.
-Francie cycled and was bred via Artificial Insemination (Ally and I did one of the
AI's all by ourselves while Michelle sat in the living room trying not to know what
was going on).
-Peanut Butter and Bradley just finished breeding.
-We are going to donate a puppy to the Dave Thomas Foundation.
-I am the Director of Nurses at the Women's Prison.

Yumm...erp! Poor Velvet and Peanut didn't get to have any chicken the entire time the puppies were here. It was high time for them to have some. Mmmm...when I took the chicken out of the fridge it about knocked me over with the smell. Well, that is a bit of an exageration, but it was smelling ripe. Velvet and Peanut thought it smelled divine. They also seemed to think it tasted wonderful. I hope it doesn't give them gas.

We get to leave to pick Michelle up at the airport in 15 minutes!

Wow, no puppies here. No Jillie Beans here (Jill and Bry spent the night at their dad's). It was just Velvet and Peanut the the bedroom with me. Peanut made too much noise and too much moving around. She kept burrowing under the covers and digging at the mattress. Hmmm...Michelle wasn't here...Peanut's furry little doggie bottom got to sleep upstairs with Kristin.

The puppies have slept the night through without much of a peep for the past couple of nights. They also haven't messed in the crate much. Now that they are used to it here, it is time for them to go back home. It has been nice spending time with them and getting to know each of them. I've been toying with the idea of keeping Andy and Reba here until they find homes. That really isn't practal though. There are a couple families now interested in puppies and they want to come see them. The pups all need to be in the same location for that.

Speaking of demon dogs (no, I guess we weren't speaking of demon dogs), did I tell you what Peanut Butter has been doing? I've been feeding the puppies outside in about 4 different dishes. If Peanut is out there when there is food, she will stand there and keep the puppies away. If a pup comes over to eat, Peanut will bark and snarl all evil like and chase the pup away. She sounds like she is going to rip their livers out. It is really kind of funny because she is 1/3 their size and any one of them could take her down. In order to make sure the pups don't starve, I've been trying to keep Peanut inside when the pups are eating. Jill lets Peanut out if I'm not paying attention.

Michelle went to Connecticut on business today. She won't be back until late Thursday night. Kristin is helping me with the puppies. She took pictures of them. She is wanting to be a photographer and has a good eye for taking pictures.

Speaking of pictures of the puppies. I have always used Shutterfly, a photo hosting site. Well, they have changed and we can no longer host pictures there to post other places. Now I'm using Photobucket, but can't figure out how to make the pictures smaller when I put them on the website.

Cute puppy, but the picture is too big. This is Miranda, by the way. She is the smallest in the litter, followed by Mickey.

Today all the pups had another round of deworming, shots, heartworm/flea/tick treatment, and got weighed. Oh man, I forgot to trim their nails. I miss Liuda, she always trimmed their nails on bath days and shot days. Did I ever tell you Liuda had her baby? She has a healthy boy.

Carol went home

This is Carol

Her new name is Chloe and she moved to MN.
Today I got up bright and early, let the pups out, put Carol's crate and everything in the van...and was sick. Oh man, I felt terrible and honestly didn't think I was going to be able make it. Thank goodness Michelle got up to help. I didn't wake her up, she got up all on her own to help. Wow, still not used to that. The best we could figure is I was having caffeine withdrawals. Michelle drove us to the airport. Everything went just fine. On the way back Michelle stopped and got some caffeine for me. That really helped and I felt better after that.

Two pups out, seven to go.

I'm proud to be an American

Today Michelle and Kristin took care of the puppies. I Spent the morning getting Carol's flight arranged and packing her crate and getting her all ready to go. I had to go to work at 1:00pm and worked until 2:00a.m.

It is all coming back to me

This morning I got up at 5:30, let the pups out, cleaned up the crate (it wasn't too horribly bad), did a load of laundry, had breakfast, got ready for work, got Jill up and ready, brought the pups back in and put them in the crate, and left. Michelle text a couple hours later asking how long the pups are going to be with us. Uh oh, that is not a good sign. She asked who the spokesperson of the litter is. Apparently one of the pups has been barking and whining nonstop since I brought them back inside. I came home for lunch, let the pups outside, cleaned up their area, ate a really quick lunch and brought them back in. It was raining so they weren't too excited to go out in the yard. Doesn't it figure...we spent all that time last night bathing the pups and now they are a muddy mess already. I really wanted to get some good pictures of them today looking all fluffy and adorable. After work I ran home and let them back out for just a little bit. We had to hurry and go to Chesterfield to pick up Carol. She was spayed today. It is a long way from my house now. I haven't been there for a long time, but I still have it. As soon as they handed Carol to me, I lifted her up, glanced at her belly and said "that is a Dr Baker incision". I was right. There are four vets there and I can tell all their surgery styles apart. Carol was a good girl and slept all the way home.
The pups did a little better this evening and didn't cry or whine as much.

Happy birthday Mom

Today is my mom's 78th birthday. Happy birthday Mom. I love you.

After work today, Jill, Bryony, and I went to Mom's for a visit. After that we went to Lincoln Manor and picked up 7 of the puppies. Carol spent the night at the animal hospital because she is getting spayed tomorrow. These guys are so big. They range in weight from 13-17 pounds. Actually, they are much smaller than Velvet's puppies at this age.

When we got home we took the pups right outside. It was raining a bit so they didn't want to go out from under porch. When it was time for them to go bed for the night I started to split them up and put 3 in one play pen, and 4 in another. They put up a really big fuss so I put them all in the great big crate. They fussed and cried. They really missed their human mom and doggie parents.