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.
Puppy 02 Male 02:00 345gms
Puppy 03 Female 03:55 365gms
Puppy 04 Male 04:30 355gms
Puppy 05 Female 05:20 325gms