our first litter in 2003

With our first litter in 2003, between Crystal and Grizzly, we had 8 lovable puppies. I, being pregnant myself, had a lovely time during the whelping. My mother recalls at one time, Crystal became sick and vomited, and the same time, I was in the bathroom doing the same thing. I will tell you; I do not recommend being pregnant at the same time during a whelping!

I will tell you a little story about Crystal and my mom getting ready for the little bundles of joy. Crystal, who had the air of royalty about her, loved the fact that she was being pampered. I was getting myself ready for bed the first night of whelping, when I whipped out my King size Mink blanket (with wolves howling at the moon). There Crystal was sizing up MY blanket so I called to my mother; and when she saw the staring match she just laughed. That didn’t help the situation. Crystal walked over to my bed, put her nose into the blanket, sniffed and rubbed her head all around the softness. Then she looked at me and walked over to her whelping box. She sat down and looked at me as if I was in the wrong for not giving her “MY” blanket. The process repeated, a few times, but I was away from my husband and didn’t want to give up my blanket. Not for something like that. My mother tried giving her a substitute blanket with the same coloring, but no go. I had to sit on my blanket, look at her strait in the eyes, and tell her, “no!” Boy did she give me a look of long suffering.

Currently we are not expecting any puppies but I will post when we are going to have more bundles of joy coming!