Post by snailysnail on Aug 2, 2009 19:14:12 GMT
The puppies are here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
They were actually born yesterday morning but i havn't got to the internet until now. I am recovering after the ceilidh last night also...being awake for 24hrs is hard work!
Anyway... we have six healthy pups, and mum is doing great. I had a feeling that she would have them this night and so i went up at 3am to check on her, and she had had one pup. I stayed with her and an hour and a half later, puppy no.2 popped out. It was born breach (sp?) but she managed alright. an hour later puppy no.3 came out, then 4 and 5 came out at ten minute intervals. It was a long time before no.6 appeared, at about 9.20.am and Tess had a rest in between. During the next ten minutes, she struggled to get another puppy out, and finally another breach puppy came out, but it was still born. So we have two bitches and four dogs... all absolutely gorgeous, and really equal in size. Tess is being a fantastic mother, and loves them so much. She is being very careful not to sit on them and has plenty of milk. they are ll black and white and have typical collie markings. Apart from two which have white blotches on their backs.
Hope to post photos once my i get the computer to recognise the camera.
They were actually born yesterday morning but i havn't got to the internet until now. I am recovering after the ceilidh last night also...being awake for 24hrs is hard work!
Anyway... we have six healthy pups, and mum is doing great. I had a feeling that she would have them this night and so i went up at 3am to check on her, and she had had one pup. I stayed with her and an hour and a half later, puppy no.2 popped out. It was born breach (sp?) but she managed alright. an hour later puppy no.3 came out, then 4 and 5 came out at ten minute intervals. It was a long time before no.6 appeared, at about 9.20.am and Tess had a rest in between. During the next ten minutes, she struggled to get another puppy out, and finally another breach puppy came out, but it was still born. So we have two bitches and four dogs... all absolutely gorgeous, and really equal in size. Tess is being a fantastic mother, and loves them so much. She is being very careful not to sit on them and has plenty of milk. they are ll black and white and have typical collie markings. Apart from two which have white blotches on their backs.
Hope to post photos once my i get the computer to recognise the camera.
;D one is dad's, one is mum's and one is mine. I will put a couple of different posts up as there would be far too many pictures in one go! so I'll start with the youngest ones of the pups and then we should end up with the most recent ones ;D
Love the name Tia Maria