Unfortunately because the Blog server had problems my entry for the rest of the night was lost. Instead of trying to recreate it I want to spend my time catching up with what's happening Now. So! To make a long story short :)
Puppies started arriving at 11am and the last was delivered at 9pm. Nickel did a fabulous job of delivering the puppies about every 45 minutes with a few long naps in between. We now have 9 beautiful, healthy and robust puppies! 5 girls and 4 boys. It looks like there are several Silvers and the rest are Blues. Nickel is a blue and her mom is a silver... so basically you can see that the puppies will probably grow up to be the same gorgeous silver color. I was incredibly happy and relieved that all the puppies survived. Since Nickel is 5 years old and this is her first litter I was a little worried ... especially knowing it was a large litter. She is a robust girlie and did an amazing job.
FIRST PUPPY BORN 11:00am GIRL 14 0z
2nd Girl
3rd Boy
4th Girl
5th Girl
so far... all looking healthy and robust... averaging about 45 minutes each...............more to come!
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| Into a new world |
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| Blue- first born |
2nd Girl
3rd Boy
4th Girl
5th Girl
so far... all looking healthy and robust... averaging about 45 minutes each...............more to come!
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| Nickel feeling a contraction.... the puppies nursing helps to induce labor |
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| Looking pretty good and fresh after the first few puppies |
