Three Men and a Little Lady!

Yes, the rumours are true. Rave gave birth to four beautiful and healthy puppies - 3 boys and 1 girl. Everyone is doing great. Rave is a really good mother and loves her babies. Here are some pictures of the babies. The first puppy was born yesterday afternoon at 1:40pm. The last, the girl, was born at 3:33pm. Nice and civilized times. Thanks Rave!


Happy Family (pups are only a few hours old in these top two photos).

Sleepy time (sorry about the colour - the heat lamp was on)

I had a great night's sleep last night...

Yay! Rave decided that a family dinner was probably not a good time to whelp. So no Easter puppies. Sorry M-H and Elise. No Timmy's / Starbucks for you. ;-)

Tonight, maybe? Y'all will just have to wait and see...

No puppies yet...

Sorry Nat, no Timmys for you. ;-)

The pups haven't yet made their grand entrance into the world. Rave was pretty uncomfortable last night but is back to her usual self today. Still no drop in temperature, loss of appetite or display of nesting behaviour.

Perhaps tomorrow or Monday. I'm figuring tomorrow... When the whole family is here for Easter Dinner...

Week 8 pics!

Here they are! The Week 8 photos of Rave. She sure has gotten bigger this past week...

Yup! More than one!

Rave and I went to the vet's today for our pre-whelping x-ray. I can tell y'all that we have more than one puppy and less than 10. I'm not going to post the x-ray as I don't want to give anyone a leg up in the "Puppy pool". It was very neat to be able to see the skulls, spines and ribs. :-D

So, here's the deal. Submit your guess for the puppy pool - include the date and time of whelping and the number of pups you believe Rave will have. The winner gets a Timmys or Starbucks (your choice) gift card.

I'll post new pics of Rave tonight. The puppy whelping window is anywhere from March 20th to March 27th.

One FAT Border Collie!

Can you guess how many puppies are in there? Here are a few pics of Rave taken as she approaches the 7 week mark in her pregnancy.

She's lost her waist! :-D

We definitely have puppies!

Palpation by my vet concluded that there is at least one (1) puppy in there. I sure hope there's more than one! We have an x-ray scheduled for March 17th to count skulls. Rave is due somewhere between March 20th and March 25th. It's getting close!

I REALLY need to start thinking about a whelping box...