New Collars

One of the hardest things with puppies is finding collars that are safe, low maintenance and come in as many colors as the litter has puppies. The first collars we had on these puppies were not working out, they kept snagging their front nails in them, fraying the collars. Jazz was fussing with the fray on the collars, so they had to go - besides that, a couple of the babies kept putting their front legs through the collar. Because we changed collar types, a couple of pups had to change colors as well. White is now blue and no collar is now green.

Weigh In

While weighing puppies, little red girl decided it is was a good place to take a nap. All of the puppies except yellow gained weight today.

Recap

Yesterday was a long day and with a couple of scary ones, so the posts weren't too complete. Here is a run down of what we have:
Orange = Liver Boy 14.0 ounces, born at 6:35am
Purple = Liver Girl 10.0 ounces, born at 8:05am
Yellow = Black Boy 13.0 ounces, born at 8:35am
Dark Pink = Black Girl 12.3 ounces, born at 9:45am
White = Liver Girl 12.7 ounces, born at 11:48am
Red = Black Girl 12.7 ounces, born at 1:15pm
No collar = Liver Girl 13.5 ounces, born at 1:40pm
No patches - so we may have some livers/blacks incorrect, but these are our best guess. :)

It's a wrap.

Mom and babies are doing well. The grand total is 5 girls and 2 boys (no patches). All seem healthy and have lots of nose trim as far as we can tell at this stage.

Close call

Well it took two hours for the fifth puppy. Debbie was on the phone with the vet when Jazz finally gave birth to her, that makes three girls. The forth puppy born which was a girl is now hot pink.

Number 4

Number 4 is here and it is a girl, she is the one without the collar. Orange was the first boy, purple is the second puppy which is a girl, yellow was the third and also a boy. It has been a little over three hours and mom seems to be doing good.

Another boy

We are up to three puppies now, another boy at 13 ounces. He is the one on the far right the girl is in the middle all are nursing good.

We've begun

Jazz started into labor at 6:35 this morning the first puppy was a boy at 14 ounces the second is a baby girl at 10 ounces. Mom is doing good and we should have 5 more babies to go.

I had so hoped that she would wait until tonight or later to do this, but there's no stopping her! I'm supposed to be in Walla Walla to judge the 4-H dog show today, what a horrible phone call to have to make to Shonda this morning - sorry but I'm not going to make it.