They're here!!!!!

Well I was just about to post this picture:

when all of a sudden, I realized I had better wait a bit as then I could post this picture:

Born September 24, 2012, 6 beautiful puppies to our Flora with Katsura as the proud papa, 5 girls and 1 handsome little man!!! Here's the first one a very pretty black & white parti girl:

And the second, our only boy with the cutest moustache!!:

The third, a girl, the rebel in the group with a full sleeve tattoo, LOL:

Fourth, a black pied girl with a lovely blaze on her forehead:

Fifth, a gold and white parti girl, hmmmm where did she come from?:

And finally, sixth, a black pied girl with few markings but 4 cute little white socks:

Is She?? Is She Not???

It's so difficult to tell if my Downsy is going to have pups of her own. It's been three weeks since she was bred to the handsome Beau and although there are some signs, I won't be able to say definitely until at least 4 weeks have passed. She is losing her appetite right now and that is sometimes a sign of pregnancy but not always. She is slightly enlarged in the teats but again not always a sign of pregnancy. Only time or an ultrasound will tell and we can't do an ultrasound until at least 30 days have passed since the last breeding.

OMG!!

We're so excited!!! Flora had her xray yesterday and there are 6 puppies just waiting to come into the world.

See if you can tell how many there are on the xray? One way to count is to look for the skulls of the puppies on the radiograph. Another way is to look for their little spines. Today's technology is so amazing. If I look closely, I can even count the number of bones in the legs (all 24!!). Let's hope that they are all healthy and make this whelping easy for Flora next week.

PUPPIES ARE DUE NEXT WEEK!!!!!

It's hard to believe but Flora will be having her second litter of puppies before the end of the month. She was bred to Katsura of Talemaker Havanese and we expect these puppies to be as lovely as the puppies her mother has had with Kat!