APRICOT FEMALE IN SEARCH OF CONFORMATION FOREVER HOME I’m a young, independent, intelligent lady with a lovely mask, deep apricot coat and soulful dark brown eyes. I’m Futurity/Maturity Nominated for the MCOA National Specialty in 2011. While I think I’d do great in the conformation ring, I’ll be just fine as long as I’m treated…
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UPDATE! HEALTH TESTED APRICOT MALE NO LONGER SEARCHING FOR A CONFORMATION/OBEDIENCE FOREVER HOME Billy went to his new home on Saturday, November 6, 2010. Keep an eye out for him in the show ring in 2011! Ok, so I’m too young for me to get health tests, but my parents were tested as were their…
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I know I promised more frequent posts with information on the puppies’ development, but it has been hard to find time. The puppies aren’t taking up as much time, but it is hard to tear myself away from them long enough to research and write a decent post. Here’s my evidence: Do you blame me…
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I’m sorry to have left you all hanging – I had no idea how much work these puppies were going require. For those who want the quick news: Lizzie had the puppies by emergency c-section on Thursday, July 22, 2010. There are 5 girls and 2 boys. Everybody is doing well. Now for the long…
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I can’t believe that Lizzie’s due date is tomorrow. We received the equipment from WhelpWise last week and began monitoring Lizzie once daily until Saturday, when we started monitoring her contractions twice daily. Things seemed to be moving along a steady clip with 3 contractions per hour on Saturday during both sessions and then 4…
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Sorry that I didn’t get last Friday’s post up in a timely manner. We’ve been frantically getting ready for the puppies’ arrival and had family in from out of town to help us. The puppy room is painted, the whelping box is ready for paint, there’s linoleum covering the hardwood floors and there’s shades on…
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Lizzie went for her second ultrasound on Wednesday, June 30th. She was 42 days into the pregnancy and there were 21 days left until she whelps. So were were hoping to see something that vaguely resembled this: Instead, we discovered that the puppies are too big to fit completely into the ultrasound image. As the…
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Even without the ultrasound from last week, it is obvious that Lizzie is pregnant. Her nipples are getting bigger and darker in color. She’s also starting to fill out around her belly. Inside Lizzie, the fetuses are starting to look like tiny dogs at just over an inch in size. They are becoming boy &…
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This has been a really big week for Lizzie & for us. She still looks and acts the same as always, but inside… Any embryos that successfully implanted into the uterus last week have grown from 1 cm to 3 cm. They now resemble little tadpoles, but instead of my talking about it, go watch…
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