Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Blessed by a birth
Last night it happened. Lily had her litter, even if it's only one puppy it's still a litter! Sweet girl had only one. I'm thankful it went just fine and both mom and pup are wonderful. I have delivered on puppy in a c-section before so it's way better than that. The little female puppy was born about 7:30 and Lily went to motherhood like a duck to water. We waited and hoped she would continue on and at least have one more but then a hungry Lily showed me she was most likely done when she downed a can of dog food waiting for her at the end of labor. (they normally won't eat during labor--she had refused her normally favorite food earlier that morning --a boiled egg)
Sunday, October 18, 2015
It's been a while....
So finally we have confirmed pregnancy in Lily!
We did an ultrasound and saw puppies we thought, on both Lily and something looking like a pregnancy in Salty but now they are down to about 10-15 days and we definitely have puppies in Lily...Salty...probably not. Which makes me wonder about her or Max. Salty has missed a pregnancy a few times, she actually is the hardest dog for me to breed successfully. She has an irregular heat cycle and very little signs when she is in heat so we almost always are caught off guard when she starts standing. Max is now getting up in age, he is almost 7 ---I thought he was 8---and his eyesight is failing some at night. He got out in the dark behind the electric fence and couldn't see the wire. He did have a nasty bite in the eye when he was 5 (Juice, my deceased male dog, bit him in the face several times one day while they were fighting)
Lily was an easy catch this time. I felt her puppies moving yesterday. She will be the best mother dog...very attentive and loving. We are doing a "profile" on her personality. There is a website I will link you to -----Dognition----and you can play these games with your dog and it will form a personality/intelligence profile on your dog...VERY COOL and interesting. So far we found that Lily is very bonded to me (and people) and is very collaborative --she wants my input for solving problems. I will try to paste her profile:
Now that's nice and small! Well, if you want to read it I'm not sure how to do that....microscope? I just wanted to show you the format mainly...its a neat website. I have only completed the first two games so I don't know her final "score" yet. Oh and I have a "share" link for that site too...so they can see I shared with friends....invitation from Kris & Lily (....if two people actually sign up we get a pet hub tag or something free)
Another dog that is so dear to me is Gingerbread. We actually call her Little because she was so tiny for so long. She had a severe case of pneumonia as a teen-puppy and was so close to death that we really always feel she was just loaned to us. I still wonder what her lungs will look like when she has her chest x rayed in January. I would love to raise puppies from her but that will depend on how much she has healed. I won't put her through that unless she gets a green light from our vet...the scans will tell all.
We did an ultrasound and saw puppies we thought, on both Lily and something looking like a pregnancy in Salty but now they are down to about 10-15 days and we definitely have puppies in Lily...Salty...probably not. Which makes me wonder about her or Max. Salty has missed a pregnancy a few times, she actually is the hardest dog for me to breed successfully. She has an irregular heat cycle and very little signs when she is in heat so we almost always are caught off guard when she starts standing. Max is now getting up in age, he is almost 7 ---I thought he was 8---and his eyesight is failing some at night. He got out in the dark behind the electric fence and couldn't see the wire. He did have a nasty bite in the eye when he was 5 (Juice, my deceased male dog, bit him in the face several times one day while they were fighting)
Lily was an easy catch this time. I felt her puppies moving yesterday. She will be the best mother dog...very attentive and loving. We are doing a "profile" on her personality. There is a website I will link you to -----Dognition----and you can play these games with your dog and it will form a personality/intelligence profile on your dog...VERY COOL and interesting. So far we found that Lily is very bonded to me (and people) and is very collaborative --she wants my input for solving problems. I will try to paste her profile:
Now that's nice and small! Well, if you want to read it I'm not sure how to do that....microscope? I just wanted to show you the format mainly...its a neat website. I have only completed the first two games so I don't know her final "score" yet. Oh and I have a "share" link for that site too...so they can see I shared with friends....invitation from Kris & Lily (....if two people actually sign up we get a pet hub tag or something free)
Another dog that is so dear to me is Gingerbread. We actually call her Little because she was so tiny for so long. She had a severe case of pneumonia as a teen-puppy and was so close to death that we really always feel she was just loaned to us. I still wonder what her lungs will look like when she has her chest x rayed in January. I would love to raise puppies from her but that will depend on how much she has healed. I won't put her through that unless she gets a green light from our vet...the scans will tell all.
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