Well that puppy having business was only stressful due to the one puppy. After resuscitating it, which in itself was amazing, Gigi didn’t whimper or anything, I just heard all of this licking. So, I looked and there were two puppies lying beside her in her bed. She was licking away. So, the first puppy born was lifeless, completely limp and not breathing. I picked him up and started rubbing, head down etc, but nothing. Little Andrew started to cry and said, “I know Mom, I’ll say a prayer!” So he began and the thought came to me that I couldn’t kill a dead puppy. So, I just opened its little mouth and put my mouth over it and its nose and breathed air in. Andrew finished his prayer and as if right on cue it started to cough and actually moved in my hand. It was amazing to bring that little one back. She gasped for a while, we did the bulb syringe thing, didn’t seem to help though. But she pulled through. Then it hit me, that I had put my mouth on an amniotic fluid /muconium/ dog saliva covered head. Sick! I tried to rinse my mouth, but it’s still kind of a gross thought even though at the time you just do what you have to do. It worked too! Then, it just was the only one not eating. She was nuzzling and everything to try, but she just couldn’t latch on.
I tried taking them all to the vet, but Gigi went out of her mind, it was worse and I thought I could lose all 3 puppies if I stayed there, so I left and bought a bottle and formula. Dog formula smells better than human formula J, just in case you’re wondering. So we bottle fed for every 2 hours, but sometimes she almost got nothing.
The vet made a house call and tried to get her to latch on, which she did, so we thought if I helped she would quickly learn. I did get her to do it again, but when she did, it was a weird noise, then I noticed milk coming out of her little tiny nose. Her nose is fine, her upper gum is fine, but there seemed to be a small toothpick wide gap in the back of her pallet. L I haven’t even yet confirmed that with the vet that has the visual instruments to actually see it, but I’m 90% sure that is the problem. Pretty sad, so I called and I would have to continue bottle feeding her every 2 hours for about 5 weeks. NOT going to happen, I don’t have the time, energy or people to help. So, I called the vet tech back and she wanted to do it for free. Right! She deserves to have this puppy if she’s going to hand raise it. So, we sadly said good bye to her yesterday afternoon. I got home from work and fed her what I could and Trish (vet tech) was here in a hour with a nice hot water bottle bed etc… she’ll take her to work with her and get the surgery she’ll need at about 5 months old. I was so very grateful to be able to find such a woman. She saved the puppy, will give her a wonderful home, released our family of such a high maintenance duty, released us from the pain of watching her die if we failed. Anyway, this lady is a puppy angel J
Ok, so, now Gigi is just doing all the mothering. I don’t have to worry about really anything other than what I normally do with her. She doesn’t follow me around the house, she stays in the puppy box. I do have to make sure they have a warm environment, but that’s it. Ok, free to work on the normal household chores (LAUNDRY to my eyeballs!) cleaning toilets, floors, dishes, food to make, beds to clean, stuff to dust, oh a stupid tree to fan the branches, put missing lights on, decorate mess and clean-up. We’ll have one guest for Christmas so I have to figure out what exactly to do for him. I still have fall décor up. Geez!
Ok, have a lovely day! Mine is half over and then time to pick up school prepare for a different class that I haven’t taught for a year and then scouts, mutual, piano, school pick-ups and the worst … dinner. What to make?
Ok, better get to those toilets! I have so much time, oh and bills that need paid, do you think bright yellow envelops mean anything?
