Ginny Nightingale's Blog – September 2011 Archive (5)

Today was the day for Lyric's pups to be born! I was expecting them Saturday, but was ready yesterday just in case and now I am so glad! We have 8 gorgeous puppies, 6 boys and 2 girls. The first 5 were all male and after the last litter of 5 males, i was getting a bit nervous! But them 2 little girls came along and I was so happy! The last puppy was a male and was big and hearty. 

The first pup was born at 3:30 after Lyric spent most of the night and that day panting and walking…

Lyric is expecting puppies on Saturday and we went in to the vet's for X rays today--the vet says there are 8 pups--she is the expert! i have a copy of the Xray and there is such a jumble of skulls and spines, it is hard for the average person to count! I can clearly see 7 though if you blow up the image. I thought some of you might like to see what one of these Xrays looks like, so i am going to paste it here (they gave me the CD). If you can download it and inlarge it, it is fun to try to…

Of her pregnancy that is! Lyric is lumbering around looking pretty depressed, but will only 4 days to go until her due date, i know she will be a happy camper soon. Xrays tomorrow and we will have a number of pups and will share it with all of you!

Here is a picture taken two days ago--can she get any bigger??…

I will post pictures here when I am all done grooming Lyric with her Mommy cut, but you won't believe how big she is! Yikes! She looks like a big pink balloon with her hair shaved down on her belly. We do X rays next Thursday so we will have a count then, but I am guessing 7 or 8 pups. You can feel them moving around in there now. 

She is sleepy most of the time now and when she does hear something and starts to bark and run, she quickly stops and seems to say "ugh--what was i…

After three weeks of a poor appetite and the blahs, Lyric is gearing up for the whelping on October 1--she is ALWAYS hungry now and is feeling much better, although still sleeping a lot. She seems so big to me already that I did a few comparisons to her photos from Litter one. She is much bigger this time--but I don't know if that means she has more puppies (she had 6 last time) or is just "stretched out" from the first litter. Here are some comparisons:

Lyric at 7 weeks with first…