Eyes opening and a very special delivery :)

Pups have opened their little cross eyes :)

 love the cute little tongue

puppy pile

Sweet Meg and her babies.  5 girls 5 boys--can't beat that :)

 Momma giving hugs to her baby

Tonight Fedora and her pups received a special package all the way from their Godmother in Colorado!!

It was PACKED full of goodies!

It included a DNA testing kit.

How exciting is that???

Stay tuned!!

Fedora opened two special bones.

She was very excited about them!

 (Snatching it while she's nursing her pups)

And--being the sweet girl she is--she let Meg have the second bone.

Meg was SO excited--when she heard Fedora getting hers she came over and did a sit in front of me.

She was someone's good girl at one time....

Here's a video of one of the little cry baby boys....

I'm heading for Arizona tomorrow to visit one of my best friends...so no updates til I get back.

And then there were more.

Yesterday another momma gave birth at the shelter in the bitter (temps in the negatives) cold to 10 little black pups.

Today she came here for her maternity leave.

It's a bit much...but what else were we to do?

I hate the thought of little babies growing up in a cold wet shelter.

And I know the worry of a Momma...I'm sure no matter what species we are...those basic instincts are the same.

They called mom Megan...not sure if that will stick.

 I love her sweet sad face already.

You can see she's so nervous.

So we'll be leaving her mostly alone for a few days.

Fedora on the other hand is full of life and happy as can be.
Her pups are growing plump and look like the picture of health.

Will try to get some more pics...but they are basically little balls of black white and tan.  Eating and sleeping the day away.

Fedora, in true beagle fashion destroys her pen.  Rips up all the newspaper trying to bury stuff and spreads her food everywhere.

She also loves attention and is very cute.



Puppy update--5 days old

Pups are doing well!

Here are a series of pictures for you.....

Dessa and one of the little girls..

 Don't even ask about Tayla's outfit, lol.

Bella was SO excited to get a turn!

Next starts the series of what is supposed to be all of the puppies....I stressed to Casey how he needed to keep them clearly separated...but they got mixed...so here's our best shot on day 5 at individual pics.  Each pup should have a face on--boy/girl shot and side profile.
Boy/girl shot seems a little degrading, eh?  Ah, they won't remember

 That means boy just so you know.... :)

 whoops an extra side/front shot

The two girls.

Final count in case you got confused....5 boys-2 girls.
I usually prefer male dogs...but it seems most people like females...so kinda swayed the wrong way for the general public--right way for me--the puppy raiser :)




Couple of videos of the girls loving on that female pup.



Fedora's litter-1 day old

Pups are a day old.

Ended up with 7--lucky lucky :)

Haven't done a boy/girl count yet...still giving Momma some alone time with her new family.

Sweet Fedora...seems a touch nervous...she likes us and wants some pets but isn't sure we should be bothering the pups.

This was the one moving in the front on the video clip.

Fedora was licking him while I took this pic.

Dark video that's hard to see anything with....it looks so much clearer when I'm shooting it, lol.