My Weekend - Puppy Breath! - Page 1

I just thought some of you might be interested to see what I've been up to this weekend. You may remember I posted a few months ago about my friend's bitch having pyometra? She spent a number of days at the veterinary college in Guelph, and they managed to cure her, but warned her owner that she MUST be bred on her next heat.

The vet was very, very doubtful that the breeding (done by AI) would take, and was quite surprised when the ultrasound showed 3 or 4 puppies!

Well, we are now up to 7 puppies, and there seems to be another still in there!

Go Story, Go!

Here's some pictures: http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a344/Sunsilver/Story%20Has%20Her%20Babies/

(Yes, momma is a Shiloh Shepherd.)

Whe had 3 1/2 hours between pup 1 and 2. Number 2 is the largest at 21.4 oz. and he was stuck like a cork in a bottle. Once he was out, the next ones followed quite quickly, until we had 3 boys and 3 girls. Number 7 came along an hour and a half after we thought we were done, another boy.

And I don't think we're quite done yet!

This is my first time assisting at a whelping, so I'm glad everything has gone pretty smoothly so far.

Is the picture link working? I can't seem to make it clickable, as I'm not familiar with this laptop, and it just won't copy for me.

Edit: Okay, I managed to fix the link so it's clickable.

Great Pic's Looks like Mum and Pups are doing well
Steve

Do we have a final count yet? 

Great job, very nice puppies, congrates on assisting, I am glad all went well.
Always,
Cee
We need to bottle puppy breath

[winces a bit at Deb's question]

Well, the vet said there were only 3 or 4, so when we got up to 6, we thought we were done. When we got to 7 we were SURE we were done.

The final count was 9 pups, the last born dead, and the second last very weak. He's being tube fed, as he can't suckle. 

Remember the post last week about the dalmatian that was supposed to be carrying 3 pups, and she had 10? I sent that to my friend as a joke!

It very nearly came true...

Anyway, the good news is they had all gained weight at weigh-in this morning, even the smallest girl who was only 8.5 oz. at birth.

Now, excuse me while I go catch up on some missed sleep....

yep, I don't like doing ultrasounds.  last one I did, vet said 4 pups,  after 21 hours of labor we had 11, all of which made it.

awwwwweeeee,  I wanna smell some puppy breath......

BTW, the smallest pup was 8.5 oz., and the largest a whopping 20.1! You can see the size difference in the last two photos.

The dead pup would have been the largest girl.    She was 17.7 oz.