It has come to my notice that I began blogging again in medias res. (I very very quickly typed the last post into a note on my ipad while I was waiting for Caly’s latest batch of chicken to cook and before their next meal.) I hope to update the blog better now that A: I remember how to log in/send posts and B:I start sleeping a little more. I THINK we are getting into a routine; it will no doubt change multiple times as the pupsters grow and develop but maybe I have things closer to under control (feel free to laugh uproariously here).
Anyway- after much much planning, hoping and MANY sets of Hurry Up and Wait: We have our latest litter of Allyn Portuguese Water Dogs! These puppies were conceived with 12 year old frozen semen from my first PWD and service dog guide, Jack (5/23/2002- 6/28/2017) in January and we’ve been waiting with minnow or wormy breath (sorry the weird word “humor” comes out more when I am lacking sleep). I have extremely high hopes that my next service dog guide will come from this litter. (He’s had a name and an official color for a while now.). The dam is Caly from the TEN litter (SammieDoodlebug and Triton’s first litter)
All of the health tests are up to date and in the HLL and on the OFFA website. I would be happy to provide copies of the information/results as well.
You can read about Jack in previous enries - he’s been honorary Uncle to all of our puppies, I may slip into calling him that in this set of entries as well - and I’m sure you’ll read more about him if you contimue to read posts.
Trying to compose this post in the blooger site reminds me why I compose them in a word processing program and then paste or email to blogger - the earlier post today couldn’t ‘go’ because Blogger kept insisting I use a different login that it knows from another program. Technology is not always a friend of the sleepless and with PUPPIES, I have more fun things to do! Puppy breath to all (they are starting to get puppies breath! Yay!!!)
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Puppies born 3/15/18
We have puppies! Actually, we’ve had puppies since Friday afternoon but I haven’t had a moment to type - not that I really have a moment now but this is one of the things going through my head while I don’t sleep.
Normally, the MSU does the night shift when we first bring puppies home so I can get some sleep but he has a nasty respiratory infection (the p-word has been mentioned) so he couldn’t do it.
In honor of their daddy Jack, we took a tennis ball to the c-section and put it in the incubator with them. Those little puppies were all over it (they also kept knocking over the temperature/humidity monitor. They were quite vigorous.)
The puppies and Caly are catching on to what’s they are supposed to be doing. She’s wants as much of an audience as possible whenever she is interacting with the puppies. She’s not quite the mama her Mama and Granddam have been but she’s happy to have SDB (and Phoebe to help). She’s concerned with not stepping or or lying on any of them so we’ve worked out our system of the humans - mostly me but Cindi and LeAnne have come to help too. You know they are good friends when they come to your house so you can go to sleep - rounding up all of the puppies while she gets into position. She soaks up the attention while the puppies eat. At least she got the diva part of her matrilineal heritage in spades ;-).
Oh, and she has convinced us to keep the whelping pool in the middle of the floor. I was a little slow to figure it out (blame the lack of sleep) but she would get into the second set of pools (the one I had just cleaned that was still in the floor) and lie down and fuss at me. Since we left them in that one after the last feeding, she’s gone in to check on them and given them a few kisses.
Cousin Phoebe is being very good with them. She’s absolutely fascinated and, oddly enough, Caly is happy to have her and GrammieSammie right there (preferably licking her and the puppies - she really does want ALL of the attention). Phoebe’s been leaving offerings of toys for them each time she checks on them. I keep having to move piles of toys from around the whelping box. She hasn’t started dropping toys on their heads yet like Jack used to do but she has placed her piece of noodle in with them, given a few kisses and then picked it up to go on her way. I think she’ll be happy when they are big enough to play with her - at least until they get those little needle teeth.
Normally, the MSU does the night shift when we first bring puppies home so I can get some sleep but he has a nasty respiratory infection (the p-word has been mentioned) so he couldn’t do it.
In honor of their daddy Jack, we took a tennis ball to the c-section and put it in the incubator with them. Those little puppies were all over it (they also kept knocking over the temperature/humidity monitor. They were quite vigorous.)
The puppies and Caly are catching on to what’s they are supposed to be doing. She’s wants as much of an audience as possible whenever she is interacting with the puppies. She’s not quite the mama her Mama and Granddam have been but she’s happy to have SDB (and Phoebe to help). She’s concerned with not stepping or or lying on any of them so we’ve worked out our system of the humans - mostly me but Cindi and LeAnne have come to help too. You know they are good friends when they come to your house so you can go to sleep - rounding up all of the puppies while she gets into position. She soaks up the attention while the puppies eat. At least she got the diva part of her matrilineal heritage in spades ;-).
Oh, and she has convinced us to keep the whelping pool in the middle of the floor. I was a little slow to figure it out (blame the lack of sleep) but she would get into the second set of pools (the one I had just cleaned that was still in the floor) and lie down and fuss at me. Since we left them in that one after the last feeding, she’s gone in to check on them and given them a few kisses.
Cousin Phoebe is being very good with them. She’s absolutely fascinated and, oddly enough, Caly is happy to have her and GrammieSammie right there (preferably licking her and the puppies - she really does want ALL of the attention). Phoebe’s been leaving offerings of toys for them each time she checks on them. I keep having to move piles of toys from around the whelping box. She hasn’t started dropping toys on their heads yet like Jack used to do but she has placed her piece of noodle in with them, given a few kisses and then picked it up to go on her way. I think she’ll be happy when they are big enough to play with her - at least until they get those little needle teeth.
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