Spring litter

When the sun shines here, puppies just want to have fun. I took the litter of three outside to play in the rock garden, and to get a few pictures. We have to take hundreds of shots just to get a few that we can upload to the websites where we sell them. 

This litter was Ginny's 2nd and the smallest litter we have seen here. She was artificially inseminated so that may be why there was so few puppies this time. Fuey wanted to do his job, Ginny just was a little bit intimidated for some reason this time. We decided to have our Vet do the insemination but waited too long, so we were only able to get that done once. We will be much more vigilant if we need to have that done again, and get her in a few times so we can up the puppy count. With a litter of three there is a few things that you have to watch out for. The biggest worry is that the puppies may get too fat, and cause a thing known as "swimmer puppy syndrome" where they get too fat to walk when the time comes. We limited nursing time, and we were constantly placing the puppies on their sides while they were eating. The idea behind that is so they don't become turtle shaped, flat on bottom and round on top. We also put several pairs of rolled up socks in the whelping pen so that they had to crawl over them and get that extra bit of exercise. Then we lowered the temperature so that they had to crawl around to find each other for warmth, more exercise. Now they are running all over the place, and pooping up a storm. They started eating kibble about a week ago, and stopped nursing a few days ago. 

The sable female has been taken and the two tri-color brother and sister are still available. The buyer of the Pick Of Litter, [POL] requested that we not remove the tail. In 44 puppies that is a first for that one. She is such a beautiful puppy that they will have some people wondering why they made that choice. I am just curious to see what a Pembroke will look like as an adult dog with a tail. Either way it was their choice, and when they wanted us to do that, we had them pay in full up front. They are happy we are happy and the puppy is happy so all is good.

Oh yeah,, by the way artificial insemination is a two part process, the second part seems like it is a job that I could do Okay. The first part,,,well let me just say it is as hideous as you may imagine. So the Vet goes home after a day at the clinic, and his wife asks, "How was your day honey" and he replies "Great dear, except I had to jerk off a Corgi."  yeah not a job that I could do everyday!