Sometime last night or this morning, our Rottweiler-mix, Pepper, gave birth to ten puppies under the back porch of the team house! Although we intended to breed her sometime in the future, her first heat snuck up on us, and in spite of our best efforts . . . well, you know the rest of the story.
The puppies may be from our male rottweiler, from our male lab-mix, or from some other unknown dog. Happily, Pepper seems to be a natural at mothering, and she's not had any difficulties dealing with her big batch of babies so far. Large black dogs are in good demand around here, so we don't expect to have any trouble finding homes for all of these pups.
Pictures will follow, although my past attempts to photograph black dogs have been disappointing. We'll see what I can do.
4 comments:
Wow -- ten?!? Wow.
Do encourage the kids to be watchful of any mood change in Pepper. I don't know about dogs, but when our cat had kittens, she was afterward much more irritable than she'd ever been before. This began almost immediately and lasted for several months (we eventually re-homed her because of it).
Congrats on the puppies, though! and I hope you are able to sell them for a fair price.
The Sowers menagerie continues to expand...
Congrats! Puppies are always so much fun!!
Maybe you will want to get a facebook button to your website. Just bookmarked this blog, although I had to do this manually. Simply my advice.
Congrats!
So much for the Spanish Armada. . .
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