Category: Lili’s First Litter – 2015

Lili’s Puppies 6 to 12 weeks

Strangely enough, since the puppies started to leave us the number of photos I’ve taken and uploaded to the site has diminished. So until I get the photos together here’s a miscellaneous selection of the last few weeks – especially showing recent photos of Nogood Boyo towards the end of the gallery.
 
Only Nogood Boyo is still with us and our “expert” friends assure us that he has the potential to be an excellent show dog and we are therefore hopeful that his forever owners will be willing to show him – but still give him a normal Welshie lifestyle of thrashing around the countryside one minute and relaxing around a loving household the next.
 
 

 

Lili’s Puppies 6 weeks old

Lili’s puppies getting the once over from our “expert” friends – the Two Jans – trying to get them to adopt their show postures is great fun – although the puppies would prefer to be fighting or just looking cute.

Their kennel names have been registered and approved by the Kennel Club. Like our first litter, they are named after characters from Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood:

  • Y Berfa Myfanwy Price
  • Y Berfa Nogood Boyo
  • Y Berfa Gossamer Beynon
  • Y Berfa Willy Nilly
  • Y Berfa Gwennie Goosegog

 

Lili’s Puppies 1 day old

After yesterday’s hard work Lili and all her lovely new puppies slept all day and all night – but they must have taken time out to have a good feed off mum because they all gained substantially on their birth weight.

 

Sue also gave them names to help identify them:

The girls are Penny, Tuppence and Thruppence – because of the number of spots on their heads.

And the boys are Tanner and Bob – Tanner being the smallest of the two (although not by much).

Lili’s First Litter

The day they were born.

The litter was due earlier in the week on Monday 20th – so we were starting to get a little anxious when they hadn’t arrived by Thursday and Sue spent every night sleeping alongside the whelping box, looking over her – but throughout the wait Lili was quite happy and carried on life as normal including her walks with the other dogs, though not as far as usual.

Then on Thursday night/Friday morning she started showing the signs of giving birth – panting and scraping at her bedding – and the first puppy popped out at 1:10am.

I won’t go into all the gory details, just to say they all arrived in the world with little fuss and Lili proved to be the efficient, diligent mother in cleaning them up and making sure they all stayed close and warm under her body.

We took each puppy momentarily to weigh them and check them over and made sure they were not trampled underfoot as each subsequent sibling arrived.

They arrived in the order – Bitch, Dog, Bitch, Dog, Bitch, the last ariving at 5:20am and they all weighed in between 325gms and 365gms.

BIRTH DETAILS
Puppy 01                 Female                01:10               337gms
Puppy 02                 Male                     02:00               345gms
Puppy 03                 Female                03:55               365gms
Puppy 04                 Male                     04:30               355gms
Puppy 05                 Female                05:20               325gms