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.
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