CH Larchmonts Auspicious x CH Yasashiikuma Zephyr at PV

They're here!!!!

Not without some drama mind you. I've been expecting them for a couple days now. The excitement started last night, but not how you'd  think.

My Dear Old Buddy had some kind of episode in the night, I feared it might be a stroke, he lost control in the bed in the middle of the night, and then he had great difficulty walking, falling over, staggering, stumbling, running into walls. Gosh I was scared.

My vet opens at 7:30 on Saturday morning and when they opened I was about 5 minutes away (it's a 15 mile drive through the Hampton Roads Bridge

Tunnel for me).  All's well with Buddy, it is "just" a geriatric vestibular incident, and he will get better (WHEW). Of course I had to call my mom's CNA to come over while I was gone. For the last several days I had been telling her the signs to watch for with Zephyr in case she went into labor. I wasn't worried this morning because bitches almost always whelp in the middle of the night.

Almost always...

At about 10:00 Donna called me to tell me that she thought Zephyr's water had broken. HUH? I'm at the vet's, at least a half hour away, Buddy is on IV

fluids, they think I need to take him to the emergency vet because at that point they thought it was a complication of his kidney disease.

Now what do I do?

I asked for him to be prepared for me to take him home quickly. Then I got another phone call "We have a black and white puppy" Mind you Donna is a CNA but doesn't know anything about whelping puppies! Good thing Zephyr knew what to do, cutting the cord.

Oh My Golly I was in the car on the way home when the second pup was born. Donna sounded less scared with that one than the first one. Both were

breathing, Zephyr was taking care of them...

And fortunately my 86 year old mom with Alzheimers was still asleep! I got home for the rest of the delivery, fortunately everything was pretty easy and Zephyr is a great mom.

Whew.

We have:

2 boys, both brindle I think (hard to tell if they are black or brindle when they are still wet!)

4 girls, one I think is black, the other 3 brindle All nicely marked.

Weights between 8 & 14 oz

Buddy is OK

Donna, Mother and I had champagne when it was all done!

I didn't do anything fancy for a picture but here it is, I didn't want to disturb mom and babes. I'll get more pictures in the next couple of days with better resolution so you can see the pups more clearly.

I'm ready for a nap...

Gayle

shhhh, babies sleeping here!