Hooray!! All nine...

After 4 long days in which everyone was waiting for the start, it was time. While Alex hold the fort in the house, I could cycle with all of the other dogs and finish everything with the horses outside.

Rose was increasing fretfully and couldn’t decide whether to go out or stay in, just her appetite stayed. As we had known it the lunch was the last meal she ingested.

Her breathe was hard more and more and after 10pm we were prepared for everything. Shortly before 11pm the bearing-down pains started very tentative and they raised slowly – but unfortunately nothing happened. Sadly no puppy was visible or tactile in the birth canal and so we were bound to drive to the vet after 1,5 hours.

Quickly everything was prepared and ready, Rose put asleep and at the same time Alex and I hold the first puppies in our hands. Now it was strike after strike, “the next one” was the only thing we heard out of the operation room and alternate we went on to get the next little mole. Armed with towels, rubbing and whispering we went through the room, looked at each other, prayed and went on rubbing. While the first puppies came to life very fast and then wafted around in the basket under the red light, we were frightened to lose the last ones. Too little hands, too many puppies, too little time! Suddenly four “lifeless” puppies lay in front of us and intestine panic came up. Through the anesthetic the ones, who had been in the womb for a longer time, slept longer and thus they needed more time to breathe and squawk. 

Helpless we looked at each other, rubbed the puppies and gave glucose on the little tongues. Finally everything was great and our tears ran when the adrenaline sank.

9 wonderful puppies came to life through Rose and the doctor. 6 males and 3 females with an weight of 360-510g were waiting for the first dram of milk.

Welcome to life: Coco, Cleo, Chili, Cooper, Clooney, Cliff, Clay, Chris & Chuck