I'm a granny

Pippy gave birth last night/this morning. I had taken her to the vet in the morning for an x-ray to see how many she was carrying andhow big they were. I got back from the race at about 11:30pm and she wasn't looking too hot so I made her comfortable in our room, she'd chosen her corner,and then it was a case of waiting. The first one was born going up for 1am, we had to help a little to get it out as it was the biggest. Mother nature kicked in and she knew exactly what to do.


The next two followed shortly after, the first two were dark brown, the third a pale blond colour. Here's a nice gory photo of number 3 just as it popped out.



Number 4 took a while to arrive as Pippy was now getting tired. But a little chocolate brown bundle eventually arrived. Here she iswaiting for number 4.

Unfortunately number 5 was born dead, it spent a long time in the birth canal, I suppose. but nevermind, we've got 4 beautiful little critters (which is plenty, thank you very much) and Pippy seems to be OK and regaining her strength slowly. So a about 5am we all went to bed. They didn't let me sleep much as they make a lot of noise for little things. We'll move them into Juancho's room later, it's warmer (cos of the terrarium) and quieter for now. I'll keep you posted on their progress.


It's been lovely watching her and it'scheered me up a bit because last week we lost Suds to an infection, so this just goes to prove that "life goes on".