Our super mom Havanese, Maxi, delivered 6 healthy, beautiful puppies early this morning! We have three girls and three boys…3 black and white, 2 chocolate and white and 1 sable and white. One girl is 5.5 ounces and the others are all 6.0 and 6.1 ounces! I’ll post more photos tomorrow but here is one to enjoy for now.
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| A proud mama and her puppies are resting nicely! |
Taking Maxi’s temperature will help me know within 24 hours when she is actually going to whelp her little Havanese puppies. She is due Saturday so I began Monday. I take her temps in the morning and the evening when she has rested a while…which is pretty much all the time right now!
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| If she gets any bigger she’ll be dragging on the floor! |
Her temps are hovering between 100.0 and 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit. A dog’s normal temp is 101.5 but the hormones prevalent in a pregnant bitch will lower her temp to closer to 100.0 during her last trimester.
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| Maxi chilling this morning while the others play around her! |
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| You can’t really tell from this photo but Maxi is as big as a doghouse! |
With a little luck we will catch the dramatic surge to over 101.0 F which happens 12 hours before the drop to the 98.0 F area. When her temp drops I will know the puppies should arrive in the next 24 hours!!
So, we actually have about a 36 hour heads up on when the pups are likely to be born, which is very helpful.
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| This is Maxi’s private apartment! I think she likes it. The box on the left is where she’ll whelp her pups. |
We had a successful breeding between Maxi and Dino this past weekend. This will be their second litter together and the first litter was wonderful. All black and white parti and as sweet as can be. You can see photos of their puppies in my January postings.
If you are curious, here is Maxi’s health certification: http://www.offa.org/results.html?all=carneys+maximum+return
And Dino’s is here: http://www.offa.org/results.html?all=+%09TR98721403
Puppies are due July 12. Most are spoken for but we may have one or two extras!
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| Dino as a puppy |
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| Handsome Dino |
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| Dino’s big win…now he’s a grand champion! |
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| Maxi loves the snow |
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| Big win for Maxi |
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| Maxi (in front) with her fellow fur-kids |
I had my family here all last week which is my excuse for not posting! LOL
Anyway, it certainly did not mean the pups were being ignored. Alex and Michael played with them every day. Here are some shots of Alex, Marli’s pups and all the other dogs playing in the yard. Enjoy!
Also, please forgive me for adding a few of our newest boy…Potter. Isn’t he special!
One of Marli’s puppies has her eyes open now and a second is almost there. Here are three photos I took this morning.
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| Girl #1 has her eyes open! She, like her siblings, is moving around quite well in the whelping box. She is black and tan with white markings on her paws, her chin and her chest. The tan is showing up on her rump and her legs. She also appears to have some lightening on her eyebrows. At 13 days old she weighs 13.4 ounces. This puts her right on a par with Maxi’s pups at the same age. |
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| Girl #2 still has her eyes completely closed. But she is a bit smaller than her sisters so this is no surprise. She, too, is moving around nicely. She is black with white markings…no tan in her coloring at this point. She weighs 11.4 ounces. |
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| And, you can’t see it from this photo but girl #3 has slight openings in her eyes. She weighs 12.5 ounces, is moving around well and is black and tan with white markings. |