Monday, April 18, 2005
Saturday Morning, April 16
Well, puppies now. I feel like I should be smoking and handing out cigars or something. Hodie had been looking just so very bloated and uncomfortable this past week. She was lying beside my bed two nights ago, and it felt like there was a soccer game going on in her belly there. Last night she was clearly hurting, and at 3:00am wanted to go outside, where she seemed to be looking for a place to nest, but nothing happened. She came over to me looking really mournful, wanting to be stroked and petted. But this morning while I was making breakfast for myself she gave birth to three wet, squirming puppies at 15 minute intervals beginning at 8:30.
The first one was biggest, with white paws. The next, the lightest in color. The third has a white stripe on its head. All guys. I could pick them up while they were wet and Hodie was busy licking them all, but now they are suckling and she growls if I get too close for her comfort zone.
Whoops. I just went back to look again, and Hodie was opening the sack on yet another one, this time a little girl. And then two more! Six little squirming, squeaking brown puppies, eyes closed, looking for food. Hodie is kept busy licking them all, and herself. No wonder she was looking so big. What a Mama!
