Well, I’ve found one thing in life that Auds is slow at – whelping puppies!  Puppy number two arrived four hours after puppy one (who is actually a chocolate male on closer look, NOT a female)!  Audrey was happy with just the one puppy and wasn’t having any contractions.  At 7:15, I gave her a [...]

As predicted, the towel came in handy.  Puppy number one was born outside at 3:45.  We have a little chocolate female with a small white spot on her chest.  Audrey is an overly-attentive first time mother and is driving the poor puppy round the bend.  Hopefully more will follow soon so she can divide her [...]

In the early evening yesterday, Audrey began panting and became restless.  I ‘slept’ with her in the office last night, in the unlikely event that there might be some early action.  Today, she was kind enough to give me enough time to clean the house and mop the floors.   At 3pm, her water broke [...]

As with all things in life, I’m getting ready for the litter at the very last possible minute.  This morning, Audrey is a bit restless and has been crawling under the bed and back out again.  I guess it’s time to get the whelping box out before she has the puppies under the back deck! [...]

My guess is Auds has 6 to 8 puppies in there. I was a bit worried there would be more, but everything looks good and she is comfortable and doing well. There will definitely be enough milk for about 20 puppies!  As you can see, she was not pleased with me taking her picture.

I think the last time I emailed you, I wasn’t exactly confident that Audrey was in whelp. There is no question now – Audrey is very, very pregnant. She has developed new hobbies such as wanting my attention 24/7 (which I’m happy to give her) and is currently in training to be a competitive eater [...]

Well, if Audrey isn’t pregnant, she’s doing a very good job of faking it. I don’t want to make a call yet as she may be having another false pregnancy, but everything looks like a go so far. I would like to see her fill out to be really comfortable saying she is in whelp [...]

I was going to run a progesterone test on Audrey this Monday but she started looking ‘ready’ to me, so I took her in for her first test on Wednesday morning. When girls reach 5.0 on their progesterone test, they are starting to ovulate and they should start being bred two days after that. She [...]

Well, thanks to the unseasonably warm weather, all my girls are cycling early. Chili came in two weeks ago and and Alice came in right behind her as usual – Audrey usually does her own thing and cycles on her own time but this year, she has decided to give me the gift of running [...]