Psuedopregnancy....It's been quite funny to watch TinTin vying for belly rubs and bonbons. Now she is trying to nest.
There's a fold out guest bed in the room next to the whelping room. This is where I have slept in the past so I can be close to mom and babies. I always move down stairs about three weeks before babies are due so all the dogs can get used to the routine and Mom can start sleeping in the whelping box.
When TinTin was pregnant she took to sleeping under the bed at night. Here is a picture of her trying to squeeze under the bed just a few hours before delivering. She was like a bloated tick and could only manage to get her head and shoulders in the space where just days earlier she fit her entire body.
There's a fold out guest bed in the room next to the whelping room. This is where I have slept in the past so I can be close to mom and babies. I always move down stairs about three weeks before babies are due so all the dogs can get used to the routine and Mom can start sleeping in the whelping box.
When TinTin was pregnant she took to sleeping under the bed at night. Here is a picture of her trying to squeeze under the bed just a few hours before delivering. She was like a bloated tick and could only manage to get her head and shoulders in the space where just days earlier she fit her entire body.
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| TinTin ... bless her heart ;) Last year Ico, too, decided that under the bed was a prime nesting spot. In her attempts to make the under bed spot more comfortable she proceeded to dig a hug hole in the carpeting. She even tried to get under there for the delivery. Good thing she decided the whelping box made a second best option. Well, Nickel is following family tradition and last night took up residence.. where?... under the bed. I was working in the room and the poodle pack was settled in all around me. When I got up to leave I couldn't find Nickel. Lo and behold there she was... sleeping under the bed. She's never crawled under there before.  |
Remember how I told you that TinTin thinks she's pregnant? Guess where she is right now?
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| TinTin re-escavating the hole in the carpet |
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| Don't tell ME I'm not pregnant!!!! |
Do you think in the next three weeks they'll be squeezing under there together?
Oh, Poor TinTin! Maybe she can make do with a gigantic collection of stuffies. When one of my hens goes broody she has to live in a dog crate by her lonesome self for a few days, until her brain gets the message that there are no fertile eggs to sit on and the hormones stop flowing. I'm so glad we don't feel compelled to do that with our dogs because I don't think I could. It gets a little sad even with the chickens, who don't seem to mind it, actually.
ReplyDeleteAh, that sounds painful... Poor chickies!
ReplyDeleteNo worries for TinTin!!! She's in BLISS. She loved being pregnant and is right in the Groove now. The only hard part is that she's feeling equally as needy as Nickel and I need to balance my attention to the two. I'll be letting TinTin stay with Nickel for the birth. I think that will help her understand what ultimately happens. She's definitely 'more into it' than she was with Ico. I think it's the close relationship she and Nickel have.