I knew Ophelia was pregnant, and I was waiting with SO much anticipation for her first litter, but I didn't even find out she'd had them until just a few minutes ago! I think she had them on Wednesday, because I noticed that she was much skinnier than she had been...so of course I got excited and was looking around from every angle, but couldn't see any little pink babies. I got frustrated then, thinking maybe she hadn't been pregnant after all, and even yesterday (Thursday) when I looked around, I didn't see or hear anything! So this morning before I went down to bed, I walked over to say good night to all my gerbils, and Hamlet started thumping his hind legs, which brought Ophelia out of her house to thump hers, too. It was then that I heard this tiny squeaking, so I hurried over to turn on the light, and found two babies! Despite the fact that it was 4 in the morning, I ran downstairs, woke Mom up, and showed her one of them (I know, dumb idea to take them away from the parents, but I was SOOO elated that I couldn't help myself!). Her reaction? "Oh, gross." Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait 'til they get fur before she'll fall in love with them! ;) I think I'm more excited than if it was MY baby, LoL! At any rate, I heard about that pup count thing...what exactly is it? Maybe I should have asked about this earlier...I HAD read something about it before on a website, but back then I wasn't thinking too much about breeding so I didn't pay attention! At any rate, you can add my 2 pups to the count, if you'd like! Now I wish I'd worked more on my website...I'd planned to have it open on the same day as the pups were born, but I got lazy thinking I was just imagining her pregnancy! ;) At any rate, sometime soon I'll post a link to my new site! In the meantime, thanks for putting up with a first-time grandmother's excited babble! ;) ~*~Amber~*~
