EYES!!!!!!!!

Of all the litters we have whelped, all I remember is that the pups would open their eyes on day 13.  These guys started opening their eyes on day 10, December 27!!!  Here it is December 29 and they are opening even more.  These are progressive kids!!

Now, for all those people demanding, pleading, requesting, wanting and dying for more pictures:

The first pictures are of Brigh and her brother, Bryce, in Montana.  Brigh is from the Myshka X Henry litter born Sept. 11, 2017.  Isn't she just the cutest little girl!?  She is at the vets with her bother, Bryce, who is saving his coat to keep warm in Montana.





Here are Reese's puppies.  It is very hard to see eyes, especially when they are sleeping!!!  Isn't that foot CUTE?!!!  Every little part of them is cute, feet, tongues, noses, lips, toes, tails, etc.  The only thing that isn't cute is the whining when mom isn't in the whelping pen and they are hungry.  Mom doesn't let that go on for long, but it is awfully distressing to the humans who have to listen to it.  Kathleen is taking the brunt of it.  She "sleeps" next to them.  I keep worrying about how much real sleep she is getting.  I REALLY worry when she works so late that she gets home at 11:00 PM.  Hawaii is DARK.  Both cars are sure to have sunflower seeds in them to help keep her from falling asleep at night driving home.     

Learning how to move photos around!!!

Kathleen makes it all so easy!!!!

The first picture is of Brigh, the girl who went to Montana to live with Bryce.  She is doing fabulously there.

The second picture is of Rocky sitting in Charlotte Ware's lap.  He is fitting in there very nicely.  We do love our puppies.

.Reeses, the six new puppies.  See how light in color one of the boys is?  His folks ordered a light colored boy.  Can you believe that Reese came up with one?!!!  Hard to believe, but she DID it!!!

Sometimes Reese has a hard time figuring out which is most important, her balls, or her puppies.  So far, the puppies always win out!
These babies are growing fatter by the day.  Reese is a great mama.

I may be crazy, but I love seeing that tongue wrapped around a nipple.  So sweet.  That is the blue girl, I'm pretty sure.

More later,
Curmudgeonville

December 17, 2017

Big night!

Kathleen was at work and I was home with her dog.  Reese and I were sitting on the couch snuggled like two good friends.  All of a sudden, my pants were wet.   No, I did NOT wet myself.  She had broken her water on the couch and it drained onto me!  I texted Kathleen that puppies were coming.  She called and told me she was leaving work and would be home "soon."  I suggested that she get ice cream on the way home, to feed to Reese, because it gives the moms calcium which they need to help the uterine muscles work best and sugar which gives them plenty of energy.  Kathleen duly went to Mauna Lani Foodland for vanilla ice cream and came out to find she had a flat tire, just when she wanted to HURRY home.  After lots of time and trouble, her brother came down from Waimea to help her and Kathleen got home to see numbers 5 and 6 be born.  We have three of each sex and one of each sex is a blue.  Beautiful. shiny babies, eating away on their mom.  All have gained weight today and were between 4.5 oz and 6.5 oz.  Reese had no problems in hatching her litter in under three hours.  Poor Kathleen got almost NO sleep as she watched her litter all night.  She had trouble staying awake at work today.  Poor kid.

I got to babysit today.  I just made sure that there were no puppies under mom and none wrapped up in the bedding.  Easy day.  Why am I tired?  Old, that is the answer.

Kathleen is trying to name the litter right now.  She is kind of punch drunk and we are laughing hysterically at many of the "names that could be," but won't be.  Laughing helps one live longer, right?!!!  We will live long.

Chip is a doll, Myshka X Henry puppy.  We will have fun.  I need to start training him to do something besides taking treats gently.  He knows his name and comes running nicely, so recall is on its way!!!

Still haven't figured out pictures.  I have to go back to Kit and Christina's for another lesson.

Later,
Happy Curmudgeon

today

Brigh and Rocky are getting on a plane tonight and flying to Seattle.  There two sets of people will pick up their new puppies.  My granddaughter has been here and is going back tonight.  This way, the pups can travel in the cabin and not have to be in the hold.  Tomorrow a lady and her friend from California are coming to get the last girl, Koa.  They will leave the island on the 16th.  That will leave one boy who will stay with me.

Reese is getting ready to have her litter.  Can't believe I'm doing this all over again!!!  This is harder work than one might think!  Reese doesn't want to eat and hasn't for weeks.  This is hard on moms who want their girls to stay healthy.  I think Reese is healthy, but it has been a lot of cajoling, etc. to keep her there.  We started early feeding her triple rations.  Thank goodness we did that.  Kathleen kept remembering how Zinger, Reese's mom, stopped eating.

Still haven't mastered the picture thing.  Maybe when some of the company craziness calms down Kathleen can train me in it.

Curmudgeon time

Pictures, I hope!

As usual, the computer wins!!!

Kathleen will be home in the next few hours. I'm hoping she can fix my inability to find the pictures. Boo hoo!!!