Pixie has come to the last few days of her pregnancy. The point where she almost drags the ground, but not quite. Every Mom is different. Each litter unique.
Pixie is a mother in the style of our retired girls CarmelCorn SanDiego and Laffee Taffee, very clingy at the end and hard to make comfortable. She has been ravenously hungry for the last week or so and we are feeding her on meat, noodles, eggs, and everything else she will eat. There are a lot pups in there and we like the to come into our world with a head start in weight.
Momma has a few extra nipples, so we expect a few extra pups in this litter. But there really is no way of telling until you count tales after whelping. Our girl The Cinnamon Bear had eleven every time, the record. Cinnamon had easy deliveries too and didn't require much from us as she birthed them all. We hope for this sort of thing, but until they start showing up we have to stay involved.
Pixie is a mother in the style of our retired girls CarmelCorn SanDiego and Laffee Taffee, very clingy at the end and hard to make comfortable. She has been ravenously hungry for the last week or so and we are feeding her on meat, noodles, eggs, and everything else she will eat. There are a lot pups in there and we like the to come into our world with a head start in weight.
Momma has a few extra nipples, so we expect a few extra pups in this litter. But there really is no way of telling until you count tales after whelping. Our girl The Cinnamon Bear had eleven every time, the record. Cinnamon had easy deliveries too and didn't require much from us as she birthed them all. We hope for this sort of thing, but until they start showing up we have to stay involved.
Tonight we start taking shifts. Pixie doesn't rest unless one of us is there to watch out for her. We begin at eight in the evening and I take the first shift. At two in the morning we swap. I sleep the six hours until eight in the morning and then we begin our day as usual.
In a few days we will walk Pixie everywhere she goes, when she goes. This is a somewhat dangerous time where she might just sponteneously begin throwing pups. Lucy did this in her first litter and carrying Mom and pup back to the house makes for unnecessary excitement. And there is the problem of Mother wanting to pick her own spot too.
We always use a kiddie pool for whelping. They are inexpensive, washable, and have just enough wall to them to keep the pups in while letting Momma out. But Momma might decide the opening behind our huge shipping container/shop space might be a better place and start digging a den. One of our girls almost made it and had a spot three feet under and it took the best part of the day, and some warm hamburger, to get her to come out.
In a few days we will walk Pixie everywhere she goes, when she goes. This is a somewhat dangerous time where she might just sponteneously begin throwing pups. Lucy did this in her first litter and carrying Mom and pup back to the house makes for unnecessary excitement. And there is the problem of Mother wanting to pick her own spot too.
We always use a kiddie pool for whelping. They are inexpensive, washable, and have just enough wall to them to keep the pups in while letting Momma out. But Momma might decide the opening behind our huge shipping container/shop space might be a better place and start digging a den. One of our girls almost made it and had a spot three feet under and it took the best part of the day, and some warm hamburger, to get her to come out.
We are getting closer with every hour.
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