The Dackel Princess

First Pictures!

Here are three photos. Enjoy. I promise more when I am a little more rested!

The first one out (black) female)

Cleaning up the baby!

The little female.

I will write more after another cup of coffee. As expected the pups arrived during the night. 2 Boys and 2 Girls! So far,,,,I am still not convinced that there isn’t another pup inside there! Pups and Mom are all well!

She’s Active!

Just a quick note to tell you that she is in very active labor. It won’t be long now!

Waiting..

Still no news. However she is resting and I hope that she will start some real, active labor soon.

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Mid Afternoon Update

Anneliese is in the first stages of labor. This can last a while, and apparently she is taking her time, so she can drive her Mommy crazy!
She is shut off from the other dogs, and is quiet and happy in the puppy room. I may join her in there in a few minutes and take a nap. I expect, like all other dogs, she will give birth in the dark of night later this evening
Meanwhile, I am just leaving her alone and letting Mother Nature dictate what happens next.
Oh that is so easy to write, but very hard to follow as I still remember Greta’s emergency c-section two years ago, and I confess to being very nervous!
I’ll try to update you all around dinner time.

Update: She is in the Whelping Box

Got in just about 2 AM. Started to dig about 5. She is resting up now. Pups should start arriving by noon-ish. Back to my little lady!

The Day Before

Friday was spent monitoring Anneliese. Her temperature has dropped to 97 degrees (F) indicating that she will deliver in the next 24 hours, and she is restless. I had her outside for some walking around and fresh air. Soon she will be stuck inside with her babies.

I made this video of her today so you could see her. She really moves pretty well, considering she has gained 6 pounds! That’s an awful lot for a little dog!

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I will update the blog as her labor and delivery progress. I expect she will be in labor and delivering puppies tonight. (Friday Night).

Reporting In…

Today was the first day when Anneliese really showed us that she is tired. Yes, sick and tired of being pregnant. She is huge. She waddles around, but will suddenly stop and sit down. Her appetite isn’t as good as usual and she kept searching for a comfortable position and couldn’t find one.

She did sit with me a little, but then would get down and go back to her little bed in the kitchen, which she really has outgrown.

The first picture was taken a year ago, the second one today. As you can see she has really “grown”!

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My laptop has a blown memory chip, which they have ordered and should be in tomorrow. Meanwhile, I am still office bound. Hopefully the laptop will return before the puppies arrive!

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Update 8:00 AM

I was up with Anneliese overnight and she has started early labor. Her temperature is 98.7 degrees a good 1.5 degree drop, indicating she is heading for delivery very soon. Will update as things progress!

I’m Banished

The day began as usual on Wednesday. Anneliese woke me early and I slipped into my robe and clogs and jacket, turned on the coffee and went out to walk my pregnant little Miss. I came in, answered some email and then made breakfast for Hubby and me.

I dressed and drove down for my Weight Watchers meeting and then came back home afterward to wait for my friend to arrive to pick up some documents I had for her.

That was the last normal thing that happened.

I sat down in my nice chair with my nice dogs and picked up my nice laptop computer. But something was wrong. Something was very wrong. I tried rebooting the machine, nothing. I rebooted it again. Nada! I tried to get a handle on what was wrong, but inside I knew.

The system files were corrupted and only wiping the hard drive and redoing the system would work.

I called my computer man and arranged to bring it in and have him download my files for me onto a disk, and then wipe the drive and reload the system.

If all goes well, I should be getting my machine back tomorrow.

Meanwhile I am banished to the Office where we have a desktop computer that I am using. It’s a nice enough machine, but I really miss my laptop!

Anneliese is fine. Eating well, and with a temperature of 100.5 (F). So I guess that there will not be any puppies tonight. I’m thinking Friday or Saturday night. (Don’t puppies always come in the middle of the night?)

I took a couple of pictures of Anneliese today. What do you think?

That’s all for now. Have a great day everyone!!!

The Last Few Days

The day began at 3:45 AM. Yes, Anneliese is having trouble sleeping. Remember your last days of pregnancy, girls? When you began to think that your baby had taken up permanent residence in your womb, and wasn’t coming out anytime soon?

Well it is the same for Anneliese. She waddles when she walks, and her belly hits the ground when she squats, and I think the babies kick the heck out of her when she tries to lie down at night and go to sleep. I know I can feel them and these guys are strong!

Today is day 61. A normal gestational period is 62 days! Greta went 63. So we are getting close.

My birthing kit is all ready. I plan to move my mattress into the puppy room today and get everything all ready. Last time I tried to kneel over the whelping box to aid Greta and I have to tell you, I was truly in pain with a sore back for several days.

It’s hard to believe that in just a few more days Anneliese will be a mother. It’s gone by so quickly (although, I admit at 3 AM it doesn’t feel that good or fast!) since those two cold days in February when I took her to meet her “husband” Isegrim!

Now we wait. We wait for the children of these two wonderful dogs to be born.