Diary of a Chihuahua Puppy:-

I would like to share with you, the joyful event of a newly arrived litter of Chihuahua puppies to our family, and would like to share their growing and progress through this blog, with daily updates and pictures..

Daisy-May Duke, our Champagne/Cream Smooth Coated Chihuahua gave birth to her first litter of pups on the 20th July 2006. There were 5 pups in the litter. First to arrive at 5.07pm, after just 1 hour in labour, was:-

• a Red/Tan Boy with a white tip on his tail, white paws and a white belly. He is going to be the spitting image of his dad, Troy
• 2nd to enter the world was a teeny little sable coloured girl, at 5.30pm. Both she and her brother came out tail end first, in the breach position, so I helped to break the birthing sac surrounding her first to help give them their first breath of air into their teeny lungs.

We thought the 2nd pup was the last in the litter as mum seemed to shrink quite considerably, but low and behold, nearly an hour later at 6.24pm, out popped pup number 3:-

• a larger Sable girl. She was a bit of a monster in size compared to the first 2, we don't know how Daisy hid this one in her belly.. She came out head first, but without her sac, all the placenta stayed inside mum, which was a bit worrying.

Another hour later, at 7.29pm, out came pup number 4. Gosh Daisy was doing so well. She was letting us get involved, she was frantically licking and looking after the first 3 pups, and here we have a 4th to add to the litter:-

• A teeny champgne coloured boy. Again, he came out without his sac, so now mum has 2 placenta in her womb, we will tell you about this shortly. This little boy is going to be the spitting image of his mum..
• And last but not least, at 8.12pm, out popped Puppy number 5. This one was helped along by my partner, as the sac was completely intact, and was quite tough. But once out in the open air, we have a pure white (to my delight) little girl. Well actually she too was quite large.
  

So there we have it, 5 pups, of which 3 girls and 2 boys. By 8.30pm, mum had her nest made, and all pups were fumbling around her belly and feeding quite happily on mums milk. We let Daisy eat 2 of the placenta, and we threw away the third so as to avoid her getting diareah, and we waited for the 2 retained placenta to come out..

20th July 2006. What A happy event. Everything went smoothly, no complications, and all pups and mum doing extrememyl well.