goldielover

yep. final tally is 5 boys and 2 girls. that's an average litter for goldens and lovely for me as i live alone. i have a few friends who also breed goldens and their biches are from lines that have a lot of pups, and its common for them to have 13 or 14 pups!! no way i could deal with that!!

pomz , my house looks like a crime scene. jumped in and out of the whelping box and just shook her entire body. i have gunk in my hair, all over the walls, and I'm pretty sure the ceilings copped it too!

Izzy had another girl and boy but both stillborn unfortunately R.I.P little angels

They were all well above average birthweights at 420 yo 510 g

oops messiest!

Congrats leema!

izzy has 5 boys and 2 girls so far. Messes whelping ever!!

oohhh, yayyyy! Mine has landed in Australia today!! I was very restrained this time and only bought $38 worth of toys, but hey, at least 2 or 3 times as many toys as i can buy here for the same price!

pockets I'm sure you did everything you could. Mother Nature had other plans for your 2 little angels.

Izzy had her temp drop at 6am so i'm going to try for a little more sleep. tonight Will be a long night!

I'm so sorry about the loss of your last 2 puppies Pockets - RIP little angels .

Sounds like you're going well Pockets! Using your nails was probably the best thing at the time. I usually have a small set of artery forceps (hemostats) here to help if needed (i have no fingernails LOL). I think you can buy them from whelpingsupplies.com.au?

Gosh, i hope my Izzy is taking notes about daytime delivery!!

Yayyy! More babies!

I'm betting Izzy goes tomorrow (as it's a public holiday for Melbourne cup LOL)

Congrats on your 4 safe arrivals Pomz! Sounds like Ava is being a good mum too :)

It does sound like an animal, which is comforting LOL. My male golden has made a similar sound when yawning and 'talking' at the same time, but not for that length of time though, and also, considering the volume of the sound, it seems to be fairly close to your recorder, so not from outside. Also, i think i can hear other dogs howling in the background?

oh wow! Fingers crossed for a nice easy whelping for the two Ava's!!

oohhh, good luck Pomz!

Sorry to hear that Trina

sounds like tonights the night Poms!!

The temperature doesn't gradually go down - it fluctuates, but once you get down to late 36, then usually it's within 24 hours after that, with the change in hormone levels

It can be so difficult with bitches who are fussy eaters during pregnancy!! My girl was a shocker last time, but this time has been much better. I also had one girl who would only eat chicken necks. I was so worried about her, but we ended up with 7 healthy babies!

I've been lucky with my girls so far. They're textbook - pretty much 24 hours from large temp drop to whelping. I'm hoping Izzy does the same!

It's very exciting when you feel them moving!

Good thing those tunnels are cheap! I usually buy a new one per litter - they don't last long LOL

Rest up while you can Poms!!

oh nooooo! LOL. I shouldn't have come back in here. That play thingy looks cute. Think the pups might need one!

LOL Poms - don't say that! I had a golden once who was ball obsessed. I had to chase her around the house while she raced around with a tennis ball in her mouth and i was busy catching puppies LOL. Thankfully after she delivered 4 or 5 pups she retired to the whelping box (with the tennis ball of course!)

We saw 6 on the first ultrasound at 4 weeks, then 7 at 6 weeks (just wanted to check that she wasn't reabsorbing as she's had issues before). Wouldn't be surprised if there's another 1 or 2 in there (or perhaps i've just fed her way too much LOL)

Good luck with the whelping Pomz. Ava looks huge!

Managed to get a photo of Izzy actually lying down (she's still running around like a maniac!) - 8 weeks in whelp

My girl will be 8 weeks tomorrow. I've kept fairly quiet about it as she had issues maintaining the pregnancy last time, but ended up with 8 healthy babies, and the time before we suspect she reabsorbed them. Will post a piccie tomorrow night :)

We're expecting Golden pups around Nov 7th.

So sorry to hear about those who aren't pregnant or have reabsorbed pups . We had issues with my girl last time, so crossing fingers - so far so good!

I think i can see 8 spines too :)

This can be quite normal and some dogs always have a small amount of pale cream discharge, kind of like the smegma equivalent in dogs.If the discharge is very smelly though or is green or particularly gunky then it could be balanitis which is an inflammation of the opening of the penis and should probably be seen by the vet and depending upon the severity, regular flushing or antibiotics may be advised.

That's it! Couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called :)

Worth a vet visit just in case but my boy occasionally has this also and i just make up some salty water to flush the area (i use a syringe), on the advice of my vet. If i see what looks like a thin blob of snot on my tiles i know he has it again LOL