Let sleeping pups lie

Dear bro, when you're with me, I sleep easy =)

Awaaay inamangernocribforabed! The little pup Teeny asleep all the waaaaaaaaay!!!

sleeping in order of size!

Buffalo is the biggest and fastest in development -- he can even crawl out of his crate now on his own and go a-explorin'! Here, Kobi tries to teach the adventurous pup that he's not to crawl past the kitchen threshold.

he ain't heavy, he's my brudder!!! but, erm, it's hard to nap when there's a camera in your face all the time Mommy!!

sleeping dogs lie

more sleeping dogs lie

sleep buddies

NC16 -- Mature theme, excessive gore

THE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO HOW PUPPIES ARE BORN

Snowie gave birth on Aug 29. It's her 4th litter, and her last^, coz Mommy is getting all of us neutered soon *shudder*.


New born pups are not pretty. No, they're pretty gross. Whelping is a bloody, messy, stinky process. There's a funky smell, which the humans gag at. The baby comes out all frail and fragile and limp, but after it's properly licked and cleaned up by the mother dog, it's almost as if life has been breathed into its little body. And it quickly starts looking for food. It must be Singaporean!!


^ Mommy says to add in: She realises that it's not politically correct for non-professional breeders to let their dogs reproduce. While she and Daddy love all the puppies, she realises the toll it takes on Snowie and the potential risks to the puppies. She swears she'll catch Snowie before she goes into heat again; she was really busy with work this last time.

Ewwwww. Stinky placenta!! Goopy baby!!! This is Snowie's firstborn from this litter.

Whoops! Here comes another one, popping right out, head first. As you can see, it's real tiny and it comes shrink-wrapped in nature's cellophane. It's small because it's not breathed yet, so it's lungs haven't expanded. Snowie had some difficulty biting off the membrane, but Mommy wanted to let the whole birthing process be as natural as possible, so she didn't interfere. Until the baby started wriggling and pushing out with its little paws against the membrane... then Mommy quickly snipped a hole and, together with Snowie's licks, they got the membrane off quickly enough. Sometimes the puppies suffocate if they aren't released from the bag quick enough. May happen to new and young mother dogs whose maternal instincts haven't properly kicked in. But God is incredible in how he dropped that little seed of instinct in animals. Snowie sure didn't pick it up from watchin ER.

Once the pup's freed from the membrane covering, which Momma Dog swallows up (that's the speediest way to clean things up yourself around the Puppy Delivery Room), it's lick lick lick lick lick lick, till the baby's all dry and clean. The pup comes out with its fur all matted and the mother's discharges sure mess things up, but she gets them all cleaned up real soon. (by Day 2, they're such clean, furry little balls, you'd think they'd been laundered!)

More housekeeping -- there's no midwife to cut the umbilical cord in the Puppy Ward, so Momma Dog has to do it herself with some nifty canine's molar-work! (pun! pun! geddit??) The cord is long and slimy, so Snowie had a lot of trouble chewing off one baby's cord, so Mommy (our favourite human) had to help with some sharp sterilised scissors!

CHOW TIME!!! Newborn puppies are also hungry puppies! It's this amazing instinct, that even as blind and deaf as newborn pups are, and as tired they must be after that incredible journey out from the safe, warm womb into the hard, plastic crate world, they can crawl their way to their mommy's nipples and start their noisy suckling.

Our afternoon adventures

Yesterday, Aunty Julie, the part-time cleaner, forgot to lock us in the kitchen before she left. Was that an opportunity to explore and go treasure hunting or what?? Never one to turn up our noses at a good sniffing chance, we squeezed through the unlatched gate and went on a prrrowl!!

Mummy was good and mad when she came back after work!


woah! this is aladin's magic carpet and ali baba's treasure cave! we went a-explorin' and brought back all the great finds from around the house onto this pink rug. that's mummy's bumjo elephant and raffy the giraffe chew toys soft toys. and artistically scattered all over are sng buay (preserved plums) and an assortment of cosmetics, chewing gum (grrrr gave us a tummy ache!) and other fantastic chew toys of mummy and daddy's things.

wruff!! we managed to split a pack of yummy egg rolls and polished it off, but because all of us were involved, we spread the crumbs all over the living room floor! it gave us a good tummy upset afterwards, and we all threw up in the kitchen, even in our crates and on our blankets. mummy had to throw out the soiled blankets because there was just too much yellow puke to wash up. darn!

mummy's nail buffer made a good chew toy...

we even had a relaxing snack on the sofa. that green bag is full of chewing gum, or what's left of it!

we tried playing with these shiny coloured round frisbees from atop the computer table, but dogs aren't really good at tossing, so they didn't get far.

more evidence that we went onto the bed... took mummy's body oil and chewed the cap good and proper on the comfy bed!

we went sniffing around the documents on the computer table... don't mind the mess, we're the irs!

wow, we found great new storage space for mummy and daddy! just push everything off the desk into the laundry basket! easy peasy!!

mummy's favourite new vit c moisturiser. didn't taste nice, so after we bit through the tube, we didn't play more with it.

more of mummy's expensive toiletries... but luckily for our furry hides, it's just the box!

Wassup dawg!

da dawg doesn't blink at bling!