Bismarck arrived without any warning at all. Luckily for us, Laffee Taffee was as good at getting them out as we thought we were. She had him mostly cleaned up, but when we do it we use towels and so the fur is a bit less nasty. At birth he weighed 11.3 ounces; nice, but a bit small. Today he's down an ounce to 10.5. He has wonderful coloring with great symmetry.
Jelly was the last one, untile the last one came along. At 13 ounces she was a pretty big little girl soaking wet. Now, at 12.4 ounces she is still a good sized girl.
Éclair is favorite little girl. So little and pretty. She too has lost a bit of weight. Down to 11.5 ounces from a wet 11.3 ounces. At these weights the wet fur at birth must have added a few.
Long John is very well colored. He's a pretty boy who has been taking food from all the others. He started out at 12.9 ounces and now he's a tubby 14.4.
Sugar was a refusenik. She wasn't too happy about being born at all but really she had little choice. She weighed 12 ounces on day one, on day two she is down a bit to 11 ounces. We are not worried about the weight, but we'll keep an eye on her anyway. Lovely coloring this one.
Sprinkles is the cutest little girl, She is doing very well but has lost half an ounce in these few days. She is still quite healthy at 10.9 ounces. She is so active that her weight might not have come out right. We're not worried, but we will be making sure she gets fed more often.
Fritter was a screamer when he came into the world. He also only weighed 12.7 ounces. He still is the loudest complainer, but put on a few since then. The squeaky wheel gets the grease I suppose because he now weighs in at 13.6 ounces.
Duncan started his life a hungry boy. He was big, weighing 13.8 ounces, at birth and put on a few since then. He now weighs 14.1 ounces. We call that thriving.
Laffee Taffee's temperature came down today. Dogs usually run just above one hundred degrees but this gets depressed as a female nears whelping. Taffee was at ninety-eight degrees this morning. Of course there is no guarantee that pups will show up at any point, but this temperature drop is what we are looking for and we are ready get this thing started.
This is the same room we used with Taffee's last litter and had built a back porch onto the place to get some space. But the back porch really wasn't much help, so keeping them all in the one room will work better all the way around. We padded the floor and put a new blue tarp down to help keep things a bit cleaner. A warm and clean place is really all we need right now.
We are ready.
