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Eyes closed and one paw tied behind her back

26/4/2015

 
PictureSmudge two days after having her c-section, delivering 9 pups
Smudge's pups are now two days old and all are doing well. Smudge after having her c-section is also well and today back with a full appetite. She as usual is producing plenty of milk for her nine rapidly growing charges. It really helps if a bitch is a good grubber when they have pups, because they will recover from the birth quicker and most often are exceptional milk producers.
The slideshow below is of Smudge and her pups today at two days old and a couple show our two youngest children in the whelping box with the pups, whilst Smudge sleeps unconcerned just outside the whelping box. These photos are a testament to Smudge's wonderful temperament, as not many bitches would be happy to lie away from their pups at this age, let alone allow children near them happily when so young. 
Smudge just like her mother Millie, takes a very relaxed attitude to mothering, which seems to work. From day one, she will tend her pups and when all settled and sleeping will leave to eat, drink or go toilet and on returning if all peaceful, will sleep just outside the whelping box and before the pups start to wake, she will after a time get up and then go back in the whelping box and start licking and waking her pups to suckle them. She then just lies back and allows them easy access to all her teats. Often the first few days for most bitches, you can see causes them some degree of stress tending the pups, but not with Smudge. I'm pretty sure Smudge could rear her pups happily with her eyes closed and one paw tied behind her back.

Stephanie
27/4/2015 07:03:25 am

Yes Smudge is a lovely mum - but I suspect it is also to do with trust. She knows she can trust the human pack members to look after her pups while she has some time out.

I bet there are a lot of people itching to get on the waiting list. I am watching the pups with great interest as I hope to have a healthy cavalier type spaniel a few years on when my own cavalier .is older. There seem to be a few variations in size. Is that because some will have been conceived earlier?

Jane Howarth
27/4/2015 07:24:09 am

Hello Stephanie,

when I got home with them from the vets, being late and I was very tired. I weighed a couple to get a rough size of them and at a first glance they looked roughly all around the same size. On further examination we have two girls that are visible smaller and generally the four girls are smaller than the five boys. The girls though are all vigorous and seemingly healthy.
The size difference may partly be a sex difference (males are often bigger at birth than females), could be a timing of conception, as she had so many some may of just received more nutrition in the womb than others or genetically some might be more to the Brittany than the Cavalier and vice versa and lastly it could be a mixture of all the above.
It will be interesting to see them grow, as often pups born a bit smaller at birth catch up with their bigger litter siblings. If they stay a bit smaller and are healthy, this just means they are smaller. Just like me being 5ft 4in tall and I have a sister 5ft 10in tall.


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