Quick Kix update

Kix is four weeks old today. His eyes are open. He can hear sounds and can stand on all fours. If he yawns he still falls over though. Come to think of it, I've been guilty of that too.

Kix weighs in at 1 1/2 pounds now. He's still predominately black and white. If he ends up a tri-color, it will be very minimum. I'll try to get some new pictures soon, so check back.

Weekend Sept. 18 -19

Cruiser

Ok, I made it through my solo weekend with just me and the dogs. Kix is still doing fine. He's doing his two favorite things (eating and sleeping). He's at 15 7/8 ounces !!! He's still gaining weight and should be a pound puppy this afternoon or certainly by tomorrow. His eyes are beginning to open also.


Laura and Cruiser attended two different dog shows this weekend. They showed Saturday at Tuepelo MS and then drove to Chattanooga TN to show on Sunday. Not much to report from the Sunday show. Cruiser won his Bred By Exibitor class Saturday and got to represent the Papillons in the Best Bred By toy group. He won a Group One in the toy group and got to go back in to compete for overall Best Bred By. He didn't win Best Bred By but making it that far was great. Way to go Cruiser !!!!!

Kix update

Kix is still doing fine. I think I reported last that he had reached 10 ozs. We blinked and did not weigh him Wednesday and we blew right through 11 and 12 ozs and he is now as of Friday a bit over 13 ounces !!! He'll be a pound puppy before long. I'll get more pics later. His eyes are still not open yet but it should be any day now. It won't be long before he's zooming around the house aggravating the snot out of the other dogs. I can't wait !!!

Laura's out of town this weekend attending two dog shows and I'll be "home alone/eating my own cookin' " once again this weekend. I've got plenty of stuff to keep me occupied though (honey dew list).... ;)

Kix

Kix is kicking. He should soon have his eyes open. He's over 9 ozs. now and putting on about an ounce per day !!! As you can see, he's already a handfull..... :)

He looks like a "Black and White" right now but you can see bits of some other color maybe starting to show.

Kix update

Proud Momma Abby

Well about the time I'm reporting that he's over 5 oz. he busts 6 oz. This boy is a chow hound. So far so good. More later. I'm sure you'd rather see pictures than read my ramblings anyway. We haven't been suplimenting his food in a while. He's eating on his own and gaining like crazy.

Puppy update

Cruiser


Little Kix is doing great. He seems to be getting strong and eating very well. He weighs 5 ounces now and is one week old. So far so good.

Saturday September 4th

Well, so far so good. The puppy's doing great so far and Abby's turned out to be a decent mother. Who knew!!! Thank goodness, We were worried that she would be indifferent to the puppy and not take care of it. She's kind of a wild child. She's turned out to be a very caring, very protective mother.


We had been getting morning and afternoon reports on the puppy's status. Each time Laura would get off the phone she would tell me the so far he's doing fine. I would think to myself, well he's "still kicking".

If you just wait long enough, Puppies will always name themselves. So this little fellow is going to be "Lawood's Kicking Against All Odds". We're going to call him KIX.

Friday September 3rd

I was off today (Friday). We kind of knew that we would have to go pick up Abby and the new puppy sometime soon.

The Vet called me Friday mid morning and asked if there was any way that we (I) could come up and pick them up.

The puppy is doing excellent.

So ... I loaded up into the car and made the third trip to Nashville this week. Whew.... driving to Nashville is getting old.


Any way... I made it over there, picked up mother and puppy, and drove straight back home. It's a six hour round trip !!!

Here's some pics of the new puppy, if anyone is interested. He's doing great. Keep your fingers crossed.

Thursday September 2nd

Well the puppy and mother are still at the Vet clinic in Nashville. The prognosis looks better though. He seems to be stronger after a very week start. We get morning and afternoon reports and although very reserved, the reports are encouraging.

Laura and I have four tickets to see the very last concert from Brooks and Dunn. They are tickets for the mid level suites just to the right of the stage so, we were hoping that we would be able to go. As it turns out we were able and we asked two of our "dog show" friends to go with us.

So, guess where the concert is located??? You guessed it .... Nashville. So, we loaded up in the car and made the second trip to Nashville this week. (almost 200 miles)

We had a super good time and the concert was one of the best that we both had seen.

We needed the break !!!

Very eventful afternoon and night

Well, yesterday afternoon was different. Several weeks ago we bred one of our females. (Abby) The last time we bred her, she didn't have much luck carrying the puppies full term and lost the pups. So... we decided that we would try her one more time. Even this time she seemed to be having some type of trouble again. Abby's been acting like she's been in pre labor and stressing for the last 36 hours. She's been staying here at home during the afternoon and night and staying at the vet's office during the day. Needless to say, our hopes were not too high this time either.



Yesterday afternoon, Abby seemed to be going into labor. The vet told us that the x-ray only showed one puppy. Laura's stressing. I'm REALLY stressing. We're both upstairs trying to help Abby as much as possible. I'm so nervous that I just have to go downstairs, get me a glass of wine, and watch some tv !!!! Later, I hear the door at the top of the stairs fly open and Laura yelling what made me think of the old Young Frankenstein movie. (IT'S ALIVE !!!!)



Not having our hopes up for success left us totally unprepaired for a new puppy. We both had more or less prepared ourselves for the worst.

We had to start dragging out heating pads, supplemental formula, and all of the other stuff needed for the new arrival.



The pup seemed to be having trouble catching his breath and was very tired and weak.



So the puppy spent night last night at the emergency vets office getting some oxygen. It's a nicely marked little Boy. He was very weak last night, but seemed to be doing much better this morning. Both He and Abby are going today to a vet's office outside of Nashville. They're puppy experts and have the incubators and stuff needed to take care of newborns.





We're still not out of the woods yet, so everybody wish us luck. I think this little boy is going to be named TOUGHY.