Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Little Help

Yesterday afternoon I became concerned about Leeloo. She was listless, had a higher temperature than normal, had some body trembles and mid-afternoon started to ignore the puppies. Off to the vet for a check up - after spending a small fortune she is on anti-biotics for a possible retained placenta - thankfully that is all it is, if it were a retained puppy we would be looking at a whole other ball game. It's important to know your bitch, sure she is not herself anyway because she has a whole new family to take care of, but knowing the difference between relaxed and listless was a big tip off. Today she is a contented mother and everyone is thriving as evidenced by the two following photos. This one is from Wednesday afternoon - all the little darlings in their whelping box.


This one is from this morning. I think the box has shrunk. They are a little more spread out but you can see the change for sure!


I weigh them everyday to make sure they are growing and as I do that I check them over and handle them for a few minutes so they get used to being touched. I flipped over Mr Black and had to smile when I saw his white patch -it's almost perfectly symmetrical and in the shape of ... what? Butterfly? A Rorschach test? Is he signaling Batman?


And little Miss Orange, one of the smallest puppies. She's the one with the multi-crowned ridge. She fell asleep as I was looking her over, as did most of them, and she fit perfectly in the palm of my hand. Another day or so and this won't be possible.

2 comments:

Carolyne said...

Oh my goodness. I can't believe how adorable they are. i know there is a lot of hard work involved, but you must be enjoying it a ton too.
I love the way they are all snuggly/one on top of the other.
Thanks for blogging daily. We read daily and love seeing the progress.
Glad to hear Leeloo is doing better.

Carolyne & Bill.

Steven and Kimberly said...

They are too much! All spread out all over each other. Love it!