We have been blessed with 15 adorable puppies.  I finally spent the last four hours downloading, resizing, renaming, filing, uploading and creating a page on the website of Asia's nine pups. All of the pups are growing well, sleep and eat well and Asia's are trying to get on all fours.  Today, I noticed a reflection in the corner of some of their eyes, so over the next few days, her pups will be opening their eyes.  Java is also a great mom, but a new mom.  She is learning the are to slow mot...
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Today is an eventful day.  Asia's nine are one week old and have nearly doubled in size.  They are doing well and Asia is a great mother.  Java's pups were born today.  She became a mother for the first time with six adorable brown/white wavies.  They are all proving to be great nursers and Java is a little awkward with the new experience, but her instincts have kicked in to clean them and stimulate them to go potty.  We will monitor for a week 24/7, and then begin to give her a few minutes a...
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The pups are five days old today.  They came in to this world with no issues in a quick manner.  We don't waste time once the birth process begins, as puppies are notorious for not making it when they are in the back of the uterus.  We walk the mom, stimulate her and she has a pup every 20-40 minutes, so the entire process usually takes 4-5 hours tops.

We did not bottle feed goat milk until the 3rd day and watched round the clock to ensure all puppies nursed well and received the crucial colos...
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Nine beautiful puppies arrived Wednesday.  Eight are female and one is a male.  You can tell she only tied once and was nearing the end of her season.  We had not planned to breed this mother, but such is life.  Our male is black with white markings and our females vary.  We have five that are brown with white markings, one is white with brown markings, one is white with black markings and one is black with white markings.

All are doing well.  They were born in 5.5 hours and all came out ready...
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