Well it finally happened! Jezabel had her babies! Jezzy's labour started at about 8:00pm monday night and she paced the house panting and whining all night. She finally started pushing at 5:00am and at 6:20am she delivered a beautiful fawn boy who weighed in at a chunky 203grams! At 7:01 she had a fawn girl which weighed 196grams and 31 minutes later she had puppy number three - a tiny black boy which weighed 174grams. I noticed that by this stage she was quite tired so I gave her a drink of water and she ate a few peices of chicken. At 8:17 she delivered another fawn girl which weighed 194grams.
The x-ray had showed five puppies so I knew she still had one more to go. After 40 minutes I started to think that something was wrong. She would only push occassionaly and she kept trying to sleep. I waited until it had been just over 90 minutes and still no puppy so I rang our vet and with the help of my friend Lisa we rushed Jezzy to our vet. Unfortunately, she delivered the puppy (a black girl) in the back seat of Lisa's car and despite the vets giving the puppy an injection to get her heart starting and doing CPR on her for some time she didnt make it. The vet said that the puppy was quite big and had probably got stuck in the birth canal.
The remaining four pups all have strong heart beats and lungs and were all a good size - despite being three to four days early!
Here's some pictures of them on day 1:
Jax gets to meet his kids:
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