21st July: Day 2

I will upload some pics of the pups and mum shortly, but in the meantime, the first pictures and details of the pups can be seen by clicking here:-
chihuahuas-online.co.uk

If you are interested in offering any of my pups a loving home, or wish to enquire about our long-haired chihuahua litter due any day, then feel free to email me at mary@chihuahuas-online.co.uk

Daisy-May Duke is making an extremely good Mum, considering this is her first litter, and considering it was such a large litter of 5 pups for a chihuahua. But she is very loving, very protective, but is also happy to let me handle the pups to check them out, and happy to let me stroke her and feed her etc.. She has always been a very loving chi anyway, we just thought that the litter may have made her a bit snappy, but No, not at all, far from it..

Anyway, she has been nursing the pups for 12 hours now, and all are happy and content with fat little bellies. We rang and asked the vet to pop out and see Daisy just to check that she was ok, and to give the pups a good looking over to make sure there were no problems.

Daisy let the vet pick her up and give her a thorough examination. She was very good for him. The vet was very pleased with her condition, and her milk production, and with her weight etc.. He gave her an injection to contract the womb and remove any retained placenta etc.. and then he checked over each pup. There were no cleft pallats, no hernias, no other problems, and they all got a clean bill of health. He did say to keep an eye on the little sable girl, being the smallest in the litter, just to make sure that she got her fair share of milk, but otherwise, he was over the moon with Daisy and pups..

I decided to weigh the pups today. They range from 86g up to 124g. I will weight the pups everyday and provide my results in the diary..