The Whelping...

Hi all,

Sorry, I'm having issues with my blog... When I hit the enter/return key it doesn't go anywhere. So, please be patient with me...

Anyway, I'll try to catch you up with what happened on Wednesday, June 2nd. The night before Bella, Zim and I tried to sleep in the whelping room. Bella just did a lot of panting, nesting and having to use the restroom a lot. I noticed around 8:30am, she would pant and then look behind her. (Like did anything come out yet?) So, I got up and started on my chores. Feeding Zim and Dodger (my 16 yr old diabetic cat and ruler of the household!). I knew from the night before Bella wasn't eating so I just tried giving her a cookie...She ate it.

I took her temp and it was down to 98.4. Last litter before she whelped her temp dropped lower. I "thought" she had some more time to go... The girls woke up and told them about out night, Sheila was looking at our notes from her last litter when Bella went outside and threw up. Then, Sheila said, last time threw up and an hour later she delivered her 1st pup. Well, she was about 15 mins off from what she did on her last litter.

She came back in the house and jumped right into the whelping box. We we're sitting there & we decided we better start getting dressed and ready for the big moment. At 10:19am she had her 1st contraction! She and I looked at each other and said "CONTRACTION!"

We went into whelping mode!....

(The picture of Bella is less than an hour before she delivered her 1st pup.)

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