Surprise...It's now "Nati plus Nine" Day 59, Saturday the puppies decided it was time to make their entrance... and what an entrance it was! Suttle signowed up on Friday. Nati stopped eating , unless it was something really special and then only a snall amount, That night she got very restless, paced off and on during the night, tried to nest in her crate, visited her whelping box multiple times, etc.etc. Needless to say, Saturday morning came earlier than we wanted since all the restlessness caused Dave and I had to wake up more times than I can count. Saturday morning at about 7:20am Nati wanted to go out and during the walk decided the flower bed might be a good place to nest....:-). I got her in the house and she started nesting diligently in her whelping box, her temperature had dropped and the day starting taking a different course than the plans I had for Saturday... :-).
First pup, a boy, arrived at 410pm on Saturday, August 20, last pup, a girl, arrived at 3:35 am on Sunday August 21. We have 9 beautiful puppies, 4 boys, 5 girls, no patches - can't tell as yet if any are liver for sure. Largest is 14 1/2 oz and smallest is 12 1/2 oz. Nati was a calm, collected matron through the whole whelp - no distress even during the 4 hour 17 minute wait between pup #3 and pup #4. I called our vet at the 3 hour mark and he arrive around 9:30 pm on Sat. evening. Was surprised and pleased Nati was not distressed but new she had 7 more pups to whelp. He administered an oxytocin shot. #4 came but it was too early to be attributed to the shot. Then #5, 6, and then 7 came later. Under his instruction I administered one more oxy shot to help the last two come since more than 2 hours had passed since pup 7. Then 8 and 9came, Nati was so tired but she was a trooper! :-). Sleep finally came for us at 6:00 am today after getting everything cleaned up... and having Nati plus Nine settled. I'll post some pictures later.. we have some great shots and Dave has some video clips!
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