Dog Finds Man

Ladies and gentlemen— here are you olympians for the 2014 Winter Olympics!

Well— DAY 61, Thursday March 11, 2010— has been one heck of a day with contractions starting around 12:30am the first pup arriving at 2:00am and for the most part a pup every hour on the hour for the next seven hours!  The eighth pup was whelped at 9:00am.   At 11:30am I decided to lay down for a nap and I heard irregular breathing from Maya in the whelping box and sure enough she was spitting out another little girl!  Things went very smoothly and Maya handled things like an old pro! The seventh and eighth pup needed a fair amount of assistance to fully enter the world as Maya was exhausted. There are two blacks  and seven sables.  It’s 12:30pm as I write this entry so how knows?! Maybe there’s another one…..

No surprise that Maya is a loving mother.

Belly up to the bar.

Happy Hour!

I’ll be adding photos all the time and make sure to get some with a real camera and not just my iphone.  Stay tuned!

Maya’s normal temperature is usually 100.5.  Since the start of her pregnancy I have monitored it, with it holding steady at 100.3.  100.3 is where it has been until last night when it dropped to 99.8 and then this morning to 99.4.  Puppies tonight or tomorrow night seems to be what her body is telling us at this time.  Stay tuned!

Poor Maya is as uncomfortable as a pooch can get.  Tonight we got milk so hopefully we’ll have pups in the next 24-48 hours…..

hoping it's hours and not days.....

Well as we enter the final week of pregnancy the xrays show 8 pups!  Maya is as big as a house and can’t wait for the next phase!

DAY 52 and waddling along....

Today is DAY 27 and we had an ultrasound done on Maya.  The report shows 6 beating hearts!  Another month to go but we are looking good!

****BREAKING NEWS****

Safe Mountain’s very own Quax and Maya were naturally bred on January 9th, 10th, and 11th.  Today is Day 16 from the first breeding!  Stay tuned for updates on this breeding at around Day 28-32.  This is a much desired litter!  Check out the Safe Mountain page to learn more about Quax and Maya.  These two dogs are German Shepherd perfection when it comes to workability, sociability and vitality.

Safe Mountain GSDs get national attention

Quax is the sire of this upcoming litter

Maya is the dam of this upcoming litter