A Journal of Josie and Her Puppies
Josie's Home Page | Birth and the
First Week | Week 8 |
Who is Josie and who are we?
We are a family living in northern Michigan with two wonderful
Yorkshire Terriers. We love our little dogs dearly. They are a very
active part of our lives and bring us so much joy. They go to work with
us every day and travel with us whenever possible. Pepper is a 2
1/2 year old neutered male and Josie is a 1 1/2 year old female.
She weighed 6 lbs 10 oz when we had her bred to Poncho, a 4 lb stud dog
owned by Beverly Nieboer.
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| 11/10/07 |
 
Wow, have I gotten behind on posting pictures and updates!
Sorry everyone! I'm starting a massive update, so please bear with
me. We love the puppies dearly and are still looking for loving
homes for the boys. Some updated pictures are on the
puppy page.
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| 9/22/07 |
  
WE'VE GOT PUPPIES! 1 girl and 2 boys!
The first one, the little girl, was born at 4:30 PM. The next
puppy, a boy, was born at 5:25. And the last boy was born at 8:25.
It was so exciting. Josie worked really hard and did a fantastic
job of cleaning the babies up. The second one was breech and gave
us a bit of a scare. It took a while to deliver him and we had to
help pull him out. But thankfully he is fine and healthy!
And no, Josie didn't pick the spot under the bed to deliver...
Well, maybe she would have. But since it was the middle of the
day, she couldn't slip off in the middle of the night and choose her
spot. We ended up bringing her beloved kennel down to the living
room and all of us gathered 'round to support her through it. It
worked out great. We took the lid off the kennel and only one time
did she try to hop out, but we put her back and all went well.
She's the happiest little mama you ever saw. She's taking good
care of her babies. |
Here are some pictures of Josie:
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| 9/22/07 |
Well. Josie is definitely acting different.
She's quite restless, yet sooo sleepy at the same time. This
morning her temp was 100.1, but I'll try again in a little bit because I
took that reading right after she came out from under the covers.
I didn't sleep too good last night because every sound she made I
wondered if she was starting to have the puppies. |
| 9/21/07 |
When we took Josie's temperature this morning it was
the normal 100.1 that she's been running. BUT! This
afternoon and evening we took her temp and it registered 98.7!!!
Is this it? Could this be the beginning of labor?? She is
certainly acting kind of funny and spending quite a bit of time digging
around in the blankets in her kennel. She still doesn't show a lot
of fondness for the whelping box we put in the bathroom - she tends to
go for her kennel or a spot under the bed. Yikes! |
| 9/20/07 |
We went to the vet today to get x-rays and found 3
puppies! They were the cutest little things! We saw Josie's
tummy, pelvis, and ribs and then within we could plainly see the skulls,
spines, rib cages, and legs of three little puppies. The vet said
the pictures were life size, so if that is the case the puppies are
about as long as the palm of my hand. We asked if there could be
the possibility of any other puppies hiding in there, and he was pretty
sure there wouldn't be. |
| 9/19/07 |
It's getting hard to wait! We are now able to
put our ear to Josie's tummy and hear the very fast pitter patter of
little hearts. It is so cute! They move around all over the
place in there so we can very plainly see and feel them moving.
Josie's nesting instincts seem to be getting stronger and she is
willingly hopping into the nesting box we made her. She also seems
to be favoring a spot under the bed.... I HOPE she doesn't decide
to slip out of sight one day and start delivery them under the bed on
our cream colored carpet.... I can just see it now.... |
| 9/13/07 |
At 11 days before her due date, we can tell her
puppies are really starting to grow. We've had to change the way
we pick Josie up because she is getting so "bottom heavy". When we
hold her in our arms it is very easy to feel her large tummy and what we
are sure must be the little puppies dwelling inside. It worries us
some that we could hurt the puppies in some way, so we are being very
careful how we hold her these days.... |
| 9/1/07 |
We have 23 days to go and Josie is started getting FAT! I can only imagine how many puppies she has in there!
You can take a look at Josie's weight chart
if you'd like.
We are as excited as we can be. She's still our precious "Little
Girl", but now we call her our "Little Mommy Girl". She'll always
be our baby. It seems the pregnancy has caused her to get even
more cuddly and lovey dovey.
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| 8/27/07 |
4 weeks to go! We began feeding Josie puppy
food. Her appetite is really picking up. Her newest game to
play is "Keep Pepper Away From My Food". You should see poor
Pepper pathetically begging Josie for just a bite of her food while
Josie just stands over it guarding it for all she's worth.
Sometimes, we can tell she doesn't even want to eat it... But it
is MOST important to her that Pepper doesn't eat one bite! We call
her Queen Josephine. |
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