Puppies are now a week and a half old and all are strong and perfect. These puppies are gorgeous and will have longshanks like their momma. At this time, the females are bigger than the males. They are very quiet puppies until they smell Singer walk into the room, and then it's like a nest of stirred up bees! I'll post new photos when they open their eyes, morph into quadrapeds and things become more interesting.
Update 12/30: The liver and white male puppy developed a severe abscess in his right rear leg and I rushed him to the clinic this morning. Dr took x-rays, put in a drain shunt, sent us home with antibiotics, but it's too early to tell if he will make it, or recover normally. He is nursing, getting around better than he did last night, but there is concern about the growth plate being attacked and damaged by the abscess, and consequently not developing properly. If he lives, I'll have him x-rayed again in a few weeks to see what he growth plate looks like, but I suppose we'll know if one leg grows longer than the other, or if he can't use the leg at all.
Hoping for the best, but bracing for the worst. :(
Someday I am going to write a book about how to survive the highs and lows of "breeding", because sometimes the "Circle of Life" and bad luck crap truly sucks.
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