Lynn writes:
My husband walked in to the room where Charlotte & the pups are
and caught me sitting in the x-pen,
just watching everyone sleeping in the whelping box.
I wanted to get individual photos of everydog,
but really did not see a time where I could complete the task.
I did get this one photo of Joy . . . howling at the top of her little lungs.
I will be sleeping in the guest room with Charlotte & her pups for some time to come.
Last night I slept in two-hour increments.
I woke up each time I heard the pups crying.
If Charlotte was not in the whelping box,
I would put each pup on a nipple as she lay just outside the box
& scratched & stroked each as they fed.
Then I put the pups away and had another couple hours of sleep.
Charlotte was feeling a bit better this morning and
was in the whelping box with her pups crawling all over her.
For the first time she finally ate!!
She got her liver, yogurt & cottage cheese
on her puppy food kibble and wolfed it down.
She is drinking well and she is such a good mother!
She is cleaning her pups and will lie down when they go searching for nipples.
I give her lots of pets & scratches.
I would like to thank everyone on Facebook and
who e-mailed me with names for Charlotte's other two pups.
Their names will be Merry & Joy.
Merry has a splash blaze on her chest and Joy has a horizontal blaze.
Joy is the runt of the litter weighing in at two ounces smaller than her sisters,
but I have been able to get her to latch on to a nipple.
Sometimes I have to cradle her in my hand while she is suckling.
Does she have me trained or what?!?
I got Charlotte up & out a few times today for a leash walk to go potty.
She seems to be doing well since her surgery.
Other than this, today has been somewhat uneventful compared to yesterday.
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