N/L's Las Vagas Vacation

I realized yesterday that I haven’t posted a Halo update lately. She made her way to Las Vegas last weekend chaffeurred from Salt Lake City by Erin who is her breeder.

From what I hear we can equate Halo’s behaviour to a desperate Vegas strip prostitute but Zuli is not falling for it or he can’t afford her price. Here he is pictured falling for something but it has little to do with sex - I hear he's just a big sweetie. She probably isn’t ovulating yet or if she is it’s just starting. I’m guessing Friday is the big day.

For those who want to know (or care) dogs only ovulate once or twice a year. When a bitch comes into heat she is not immediately ready to be bred, she has to ovulate first. They start their heat and a few days in (up to 20 sometimes) they experience a lutenizing hormone surge which triggers the bitch to ovulate over a period of 5 days. The eggs have a kind of shell around them and when ovulation occurs the shell takes about 48 hours to completely open, is open for about 36 hours and then the egg starts to die over the next couple days. Think of it like a banana; buy it green, it starts to turn yellow til it’s ripe, it stays ripe for a couple days and then it starts to die … voila! Ovulation!

You want to breed just as the eggs are opening to catch them at their ripest. Sperm can live for a long time in the bitch so if you breed as the eggs are opening the sperm will be just sitting around whistlin’ dixie until the bouncers open the strip club doors and they flood in waving little spermy dollar bills. The first day the dogs are bred is when your 63 day gestation count starts. Nine weeks later, more or less, you should see little babies arrive.

Halo had her fist litter exactly 63 days from when she was bred … practically in the same hour. Her second litter was born on day 61 which means they wanted OUT. It was crowded in there.

So she spends her days now wandering up and down the Vegas dog run, wiggling her doggy bum and trying to entice Mr. Zuli to buy what she’s selling. Here's a picture of him feigning disinterest ... or it is actual disinterest ... either way I’m pretty sure he’s starting to crack …