PUPPIES!!!!!

Well, it was a long night last week, but it ended in success. Harley started her labor Tuesday evening (July 13). A good friend of mine was having a litter of Dane pups in Kentucky at the EXACT same time. We spent quite awhile on the phone. I thought for a short time that we might have pups on the same day, but it just wasn't meant to be.

The first pup arrived at about 12:30am on Thursday. It was a brindle girl (Purple Girl). She weighed 23.9 ounces! She was a big pup! About 30 minutes later, a brindle boy was born (Red Boy). He was a little smaller (but not much!) at 23.2 ounces. Harley was doing great. It became obvious that she was going to be a GREAT mom. Thank God!

At about 2:30 the next puppy was born. It was a boy (Blue Boy)...A WHOPPER at 27.1 ounces!!! I knew we had one more puppy in there based on the xrays taken a week before.....but where was it. At about 4:00am another water broke. I knew the next one would be coming soon.....but he didn't.

At 6:30 we took Harley and the pups into the vet. The xrayed her and saw a HUGE HUGE HUGE puppy in there. It's head was at her third rib and the rear end was at her pelvis. We knew we didn't have much time and a C-Section was destined.

Harley came through the surgery great and we had ANOTHER brindle boy (Green Boy). He weighed 24.3 ounces. I was hoping that I would have a fawn in the litter, but it just wasn't meant to be.

The pups are growning like weeds now! They are 5 days old today. When I weighed them yesterday, all but Red Boy was over 2 pounds and the he was less than one ounce away.