Announcement: Zinger/Burlap Litter

Date of Birth: May 16th, 2014

First Born: Bat Girl  8.3 oz

Second Born: Glory 7.6 oz

Third Born: Little Guy 4 oz - unfortunately did not make it

Fourth Born: Seven  8.1 oz

Fifth Born: Morse  6.0 oz

Mom: Zinger          Elwha's The Bees Knees

Dad: Burlap      Kandu's Burlap of Howway, ME

    Below winning the National Specialty in 2003

For Facebook Readers: this is old information.   Thursday evening ended up a "slumber party" at Charlotte's home.  Bonny (my 5 year old BT) and I packed up to join the fun.  We got to "slumber" from about 10 to 2.  Then Zinger went into high drive nesting/labor.  It took several hours before the first girl was born.  She was a big girl.  It took lots of work on Zinger's part and lots of nervous sweat on the waiting human's part...but she arrived safely.  After that a puppy every hourish.

You may have noticed that indeed there were five pups born.  In spite of a trip to the vet and a day working on him, the little guy did not make it.  It was hard and sad.  However, we must celebrate. We have four healthy pups...two boys and two girls.

Actually, Charlotte and I were so focused on the little guy and saving him, we stopped watching Zinger - assuming she was done.  I checked to see how the other three were doing - SURPRISE - I counted four pups instead of three!  Another little boy was born with no help at all.