As soon as I get some, I will be sure to forward! > -----Original Message----- > From: Greenwood, Erin E. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:27 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Well, I will be noisy - I have good news!! > > Congratulations new non-furmom! > > Will there be pictures soon? > > Erin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fleischer, Beth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Well, I will be noisy - I have good news!! > > > My new furkid (no name as of yet) was born yesterday afternoon!! sounds > like an exciting birth - read below. > So we are now collecting puppy names to consider. I am partial to > non-human > names like Mojo, Jihad, Havoc, Ballyhoo (really like the idea of saying > BAD > MOJO when he misbehaves) and boytoy likes silly human names like > Sebastian, > Belvedere etc. We also both like literary or film references - Kavik is > named after a Walt Morely kids book called Kavik the Wolf Dog. Please no > names that start with K, we dont' want to confuse the kids. > > **Quoted material follows**** > QT (Ch Cascadia I am I said) packed her nightie and came to live at the > Rainkee Birthing Center last Sunday. We had one last vet visit planned for > today (Thursday) in anticipation of puppies early next week. > > So, I packed up QT this afternoon to stop at the Vet before heading to a > council meeting in Oregon City. Did the x-ray and every one of the vets > had > to come in and see the x-ray and hug their favorite patient QT. It > appeared > we had EIGHT maybe more puppies packed into that little body and after > checking the chart figured it would be Monday or Tuesday before she > popped. > > So, off QT and I went to my meeting. I came out to the car an hour later > to > hear what sounded like a kitten in the back of the car....YEP, first > puppy! > nice and clean and dry. So, I grabbed the cell phone and called the vet - > what now, I'm 30 minutes to the vet; 50 minutes to home. Helen, who > doesn't > do no birthings, is somewhere in between. Vet, who we've known for 25 > years > or so, is laughing and figures the best bet is to just stop at Helen's and > let her help with the whelpin'.... > > Instead, I snuggled the puppy under my wool jacket, got behind the wheel > of > the van, and headed for home the backway so I could stop if I needed to. > While I'm driving and trying to line up Dad to take care of the other > dogs; > Kathy Gray who wanted to observe QT's birthing (in anticipation of her > Rose, > QT's sister, doing this next summer), and Helen who's somewhere on the way > home from work, I look in the rearview mirror and see QT beginning to pant > and fuss again....then hear the squeak of another puppy.... > > Once home, I quickly changed clothes while puppy number 1 scoots around on > my bed lookin' for a warm spot...and went back to the car to get QT and > her > other puppy and settle all in the real birthing room. I found not one, but > two puppies in the crate with her for 3 total while we were out and about. > (Sadly, one, a very small girl, didn't make it - not sure if she never > started or just got chilled, QT had her stashed in a corner). > > Once downstairs QT settled right down to business and popped out another 2 > puppies before Kathy got here, then a short break for dinner and QT popped > out another one. Then we had a LONG break of a couple hours and the last 2 > popped out. > > In all, QT has 7 beautiful babies - 5 boys, 2 girls; They've been > throughly > washed, weighed, and snuggled by Kathy & I. QT's settled into her den with > her brood, everyone's had a turn at the milk bar, the puppy pad is finally > warmed up, and now I'm heading off to bed. > > Not sure how much sleep I'll get, Supermom Jackie is fussing to go down > and > be with the babies, but she's just gonna have to wait. > > More tomorrow after we've all had some rest. > -- > Judi James - Out Oregon Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > > > Cheers, > > Beth Fleischer > Certified Advanced Cold Fusion Developer > Internet Programmer > Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
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