Day 5

Not much going on here, just a nice relaxing day hanging out at the milk bar.

Day 4

New head shots and names of the Star Trek Litter -

Couselor (Commander) Deanna Troy

"Troy"

Doctor (Commander) Beverely Crusher

"Beverly"

Commander Spock

"Spock"

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge

"Geordi"

 

Lieutenant Commander Data

"Data"

Captian Jean-Luc Picard

"Picard"

 

Commander William Thomas Riker

"Riker"

Captian James T. Kirk

"Kirk"

Day 3

Yesterday was a busy day for the pups with a visit to the vet and the start of the Super Puppy exercises.

Vet Visit

Fiona and the pups went to the vet yesterday to get a quick check up and for the pups to have their dew claws removed.  The doctor gave everyone a clean bill of health and we scheduled the next visit to get the pups their first shots.

Super Puppy Exercises

I began giving the puppies the Super Puppy Exercises yesterday.  These are a series of neurological stimulation exercises that are designed to get the neurological system into action earlier than normally expected.  The benefits of early stimulation were shown to be improved cardio vascular performance, stronger heart beats, stronger adrenal glands, more tolerance to stress and greater resistance to disease.

For more information see - http://breedingbetterdogs.com/pdfFiles/articles/early_neurological_stimulation_en.pdf

For a demonstration of these exercises see - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31N_gmUkE0

Day 2

Turns out getting those head shots of the pups is a bit more difficult than I imagined.  I finally managed to succeed today so here they are:

First the 2 girls -

Girl 1

Girl 2

Now the boys -

Patch Boy 1

Patch Boy 2

And now the other four boys -

Boy 3

Boy 4

Boy 5

Boy 6

There they are.  I hope you like the pictures.  We are going to call this the Star Trek litter and eventually name the puppies after characters from the various series of Star Trek.

More to come.  Tomorrow looks to be a very busy day for the pups.

I was right.  Today was the day.  Fiona had 8 healthy puppies this afternoon - 6 boys (2 patches) and 2 girls.  All the pups seem stong and healthy and Fiona is a great first time mother and is doing a great job taking care of all the pups.  Here is a picture of her and the kids in the puppy pen.

And we wait....  the offical guesstimated due date is tomorrow July 30th but there are no signs indicating that will be true.  I'm betting on Tuesday the 31st.  Fiona has milk now so it won't be long.  Here is a picture taken of her today ... even fatter and rounder than before.

I took Fiona to the vet Monday to get a radiograph so we would know exactly how many puppies to expect.  Well it turns out that getting this done is not nearly as an exacting process as I thought.  The vet said he could definitely see 6 and something that could possibly be another and OBTW she's carrying them up high so another could be hiding up there and then her tummy is full so another could be hiding back there too.  That's just so precise that I can't stand it.

So we wait and see.  In any case the nursery awaits:

Now all I have to do is convince Fiona that she wants to get in there and check it out.  She says she'd rather hang out with Guin.

Notice the green stains on Guin's face?  I planted 2 cherry tomatoes for the dogs in my back yard and they nose around in them to find the tomatoes.  In the process wind up with green faces but they have a great time and love the tomatoes.