2 weeks old

Puppies are doing great. Everyone can see, hear, and walk now.
Orange Girl


Green Girl


Purple Girl


Red Girl


Pink Girl


Blue Boy

1 week

The puppies are growing and doing well. I have been having so much fun watching them instead of posting.
Here are pics of the puppies at 1 week old and a video of one playing with a raccoon tail.
Orange Girl


Green Girl


Purple Girl


Red Girl


Pink Girl


Blue Boy

We have puppies!

Contractions started about 8:45 last night. In less than an hour we had our first puppy. We ended up with 6 girls and 1 boy but one girl was born out of the sack, pale, and not breathing. We never could get her going.
Everyone else seems to be doing well. Venus did a great job and everything went fast and smooth. She's being a wonderful mom.

Orange Girl

Green Girl

Purple Girl

Red Girl

Pink Girl

Blue Boy

Final weight and now we wait!

Venus's final weight was 61.6 so about 13lb gain total. My guess is 6-7 puppies. Today she has been nesting big time whenever I leave. I guess she doesn't think it's ok when I'm home.
I am home for the weekend now so I just wait and watch. Keep an eye on the cam for updates.

Venus Cam!!!

http://www.marestare.com/cam.php?alias=doubletake

Venus has a cam up so she can be monitored while I am at work in the days leading up to the delivery.

She gained 4lbs in the past week putting her up to a total of 10lb gain. 9 more days to go!

Markers, heating pad, whelping pad, everything is here and ready. Now we just finish up our wait.

Venus is getting very big!

She has gained 5.6lbs since I last weighed her on Sept 28th. She has some milk now and we heard heartbeats on the doppler. We think we heard 8 of them. I have been saying from the very start that there are 9 puppies.

18 days to go!

Real weight gain

Venus gained 0.9 lbs this week. Her belly is growing and looking very cute. No weight for next week, I'll be at the Sammy national in IN!

Pregnant!

The test on Tuesday was positivie. Venus is pregnant!!! She was up to 48.9 lbs, still not much of a gain yet. Her belly has grown another 1/4 inch. I leave for the National on Sat Oct 3rd and will borrow a friends doppler to bring home with me. I'll post a video of that when I do it plus it might be live on ustream for anyone that's interested.

Venus Updates!

Last Thursday Venus weighed 48.6 and yesterday she was 48.7. Not much change yet. She has been clingy even for her. Monday she wasn't really into our agility lesson and didn't want to play catch the Border Collies which is usually a favorite!
Saturday I measured her belly at 19 1/4, tonight at 19 1/2! All very good signs.

My next update will probably be Sept 22, pregnancy test day!

Today's weight

48.8 lbs today so she ranges 48.5-49.5 as our starting weight

Breedings are done

We got 3 good breedings, Sat, Sun, and Tues. We are hoping for puppies on Halloween! I'll weight Venus tomorrow to see how much she is fluctuating.

Upcoming litter!

Next week Venus, Ch Doubletake's She's Got It OA, OAJ, NAC, TN-N will be bred to Shaker, Am Can Ch Wintersong-Rexann Caus N'Commotion JHD. We are very excited about the kind of structure we expect from this litter. Not only will they be built to work but they should have the drive to do it also!

I first noticed Venus in season August 20th. I had checked her the night before so we are pretty accurate on when she came in. I ran the fertile focus on her today and it says she's no where close to being ready. We're going to start running progesterone tests on Tuesday (Day 6) and Shaker will be here on Wednesday.

Venus weght today was 49.5 lbs. I will weigh her weekly to monitor her for signs that she is pregnant.

Her nickname is Bean so if I mention that on here it is the same dog. :)

Brandy