Slutty the dog became pregnant after the dog of her dreams bounded into her life one afternoon. I saw the dog at the same time as she did. I wanted to beat it with a stick but she swooned and ran to him.
I had seen her with other dogs while she was in season and she rejected them all. This one was different: tall, brown and with a hint of ridgeback. I assume he is the father of her pups and when pup number one arrived I said, aha! I was right!
That's why I call her Slutty: a bitch of easy virtue!!
The pups arrived early on Saturday and I was the first person on the scene. My torturing shoulder was keeping me awake and I could hear squealing coming from outside. As I walked out through the back door, the family dog bounded over very excitedly and as I walked on he ran backwards and forwards and led me to a place just behind the washing machine. His look said, look what I found, what do you think?!!
Slutty was hiding in the bottom of an old wardrobe when I walked past and she came over to us too, looked at the puppy, rolling around and squealing. Her body language said, this just sort of popped out ... no idea what to do with it!! The little thing had been licked clean and was already dry so he had been born a while before.
I called for backup and within minutes there were four people, two dogs, the kitten and Slutty's first born.
I couldn't sleep because of my shoulder so I hung around for a while until puppy two arrived. I had seen the waters break for this one so knew it wasn't far away. It took a while though.
Photos done I went to bed and managed to sleep.
In the morning there was great excitement outside as puppies three and four had arrived while I had been asleep. They arrived together, literally inseparable, as they were conjoined twins. I had never seen such a thing before and there they were: six legs, two tails and they didn't, they couldn't, survive.
Two healthy puppies, two unhealthy puppies. A decent result for Slutty, first time mother!
Photos below.
DW
