Puppies gotta eat, and today they got their first taste of solid food. Take puppy food, mix with warm water, stir, and wait until the food is soft. Add more warm water and mash it up. Mix in a heaping helping of love. Serve. I got the following pictures and commentary from Colleen. [I've added [...]
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First adventure in puppy food
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, first puppy food, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Brown curly escape artists
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies, whelping box on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The puppies are getting adventurous. It seems like almost every time I went down to the puppy room this weekend, at least one of the puppies was out of the whelping box. Looking somewhat befuddled, or whimpering slightly, or, in one case, just sitting there looking around. So this morning I was not surprised to [...]
Puppies, day 18
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniel puppies, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Puppies are wiggly! They don’t particularly care if I get a picture of them or not. But I care, so I wrangled up a volunteer to hold each and every sweet puppy for me. Even so, I couldn’t get them all to be still for the same profile. Oh, well!
17-day old puppies in motion
Posted in breeding, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniel puppies, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies, whelping box on May 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Just a short video here of the Tooey x Cork puppies at 17 days. I think it nicely shows how they’re moving around their whelping box, and how they pile up when they all decide it’s time for a nap.
Puppy daddy
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged breed, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, sire on May 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I just got these pictures from Colleen of Cork, Tooey’s puppy daddy. They were all taken by Jeremy Kezer at the 2009 IWSCA National Specialty. A previous post on this blog has a couple more recent pictures of Cork (with Tooey) just before they mated.
Puppies day 11
Posted in breeding, life with dog, puppy, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, IWS puppies, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Tooey calmly feeding her 10 fat and happy puppies: that’s the sight that greeted me on Friday night at Colleen’s. Russ, bless his heart, agreed to run Cooper in this weekend’s spaniel hunt tests, so that left me free to go take care of my girl Tooey and her puppies. The first order of business [...]
Puppies one-by-one
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged 2-day old puppies, dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniel puppies, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 12, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Tooey and her ten three-day-old puppies: Now in birth order (not to scale):
Bottle-feeding puppies, and assumptions thereof
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged bottle-feeding puppies, dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on May 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My last post caused quite a stir. I got Facebook comments and private messages, emails, and texts, all telling me, more or less kindly, that bottle-feeding puppies is a bad idea. This is what I said that caused the ruckus: “Tooey was about out of milk after almost exactly 12 hours of whelping, so I [...]
Finally puppies, part deuce
Posted in breeding, friendship, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 10, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Well, I ended last night’s post too early. Tooey delivered two more puppies for a total of 10 (so far). 7 boys and 3 girls. Tooey was about out of milk after almost exactly 12 hours of whelping, so I ran to the store for goats milk and baby bottles. We fed the pups who [...]
Finally puppies
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, Tooey x Cork puppies on May 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
63 days came and went. Finally today, the 66th day, Tooey had eight beautiful puppies: five boys and three girls. It did not go like the textbook says. Besides whelping being days late, there was the matter of the temperature. Supposedly when the bitch’s temperature goes down to 99°F, she should start having puppies within [...]
63 days, maybe
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The big yellow notepad in Colleen’s whelping room says “Sunday.” That’s today. It’s 63 days since Tooey’s first tie with Cork, which was on March 5th. But so far, no puppies. Of course, there was a second tie on March 7th. Maybe that’s the one that took. Her temperature isn’t dropping to 99 degrees F, [...]
Almost time for puppies
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t seen Tooey for a week, and look how much bigger she is.
6, 7, or 8
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged dog breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I just heard from Colleen. She took Tooey to be X-rayed this morning to see how many puppies Tooey’s actually carrying. The text message was short, but exciting: “At least 6. Maybe 7 and could be 8.” Oh-h-h-h-h! Puppies! I wish I could have seen that X-ray. If it weren’t for the fact that I [...]
A little more pregnant every day
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged breeding, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, puppies on April 27, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s astonishing to watch Tooey grow. Not even a week ago, she looked like this: Yesterday evening, she looked like this: Along with the amazing growth, we’re making other discoveries about canine pregnancy. For one, Tooey farts. A lot. And very stinky. I guess the puppies are producing gas, and Tooey has to get rid [...]
Gestation period for Spáinnéar Uisce
Posted in breeding, life with dog, Stanegate Second Thoughts, tagged gestation period for dogs, Irish Water Spaniels, IWS, spáinnéar uisce on April 23, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Some gestation periods are shorter than others. The gestation period for Irish Water Spaniels, like other dogs, is 63 days. Tooey is at about Day 49. The gestation period for the Spáinnéar Uisce has been much longer. Russ has been building our cabin cruiser (off and on) since July 4, 2005. For the last couple [...]
