The puppies are doing so well at one week old. Nellie is taking very good care of them! They are growing like weeds. Yellow girl is upto 3#. They eat, sleep, crawl around the whelping box to get near mom and make little puppy noises. One more week and there eyes will begin to open.
Nellie and the puppies are doing very well. They are 3 days old today. They are growing like weeds. They started out at 1-1.5# and they are upto 1.5-1.75#. Nellie is taking such good care of them. When they are sound asleep she comes out of the box to say hi to us and go out potty then when they squeek she runs up there and counts all of them and jumps back in the box. She has really been the best mom the past 3 litters. Couldn’t ask for a better one.
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The due date was suppost to be Dec. 1st. but Nellie decided to hold on to her precious cargo a little longer. This morning at 4:14am she delivered her first baby girl. She proceeded to deliver 3 more girls by 6:50am. Three puppies are dark brown and one is a lighter brown. They are all doing very well and once again Nellie is being a very good momma. She does everything and I don’t have to do to much. She takes such good care of her young. It’s so warm and cozy to sit down stairs and hear little puppy noises coming from the upstairs.
Well I thought there was a slight chance last night Nellie would go into labor. I slept on the couch with her and she was laying on my legs and I could feel the little guys moving and I thought I saw some contractions (which were just puppies moving). She would pick her head up and pant but that turned out to be she was just hot from me smothering her. So maybe tonight will be the lucky night. I took her with to my deer stand today to get alittle exercise and she enjoyed that and now we all are curled up on the couch. She is extremely hugh I can’t believe she won’t just pop them out as she must be uncomfortable but she is doing fine with it.
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Nellie was nice enough to not have the puppies when I was out of town working Monday night. She held off last night and now it is getting closer to her due date which is tomorrow. Is she going to have them tonight or tomorrow night. I can wait for the little bealers to get out here so I can see them. Have to clean the house today and get everything ready for there new arrival. Soon Gambler will have a little niece to play with when Marie goes over to her new home in the UK come Jan 2012. I will keep you posted when Nellie starts having the little ruggers.
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Here is a link to a video of Nellie’s puppys moving in her bellie. Gambler and Marie were laying next to her and telling the soon to be born puppies how to be naughty when they grow up.
Gambler didn’t get to sit in the corn field and get this goose (daddy Norman did) but he got to try and pick it up at home. I haven’t weighed Gambler in a week but I would guess he is about 58# at 6 months. John weighed the goose and it weighed in at 10#. I didn’t know if he would be able to pick it up but once he figured out how to get his mouth around it he picked it up and carried it rather well. I was so proud of the little man.
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