Puppy Power

On June 7th Lillian had puppies!!  When Brands came over the other day he said he hadn’t seen Lils all day.  I hadn’t either, but I thought it was because she was with Brands or Allen.  We looked around for her and found her under the house.  When Brands peeked under there, he saw Lils and her brand new puppies!  He thought there were four there.  I thought that sounded about right because she wasn’t very big.  I thought she still had a few weeks to go because she wasn’t that big.  The next day I looked under there and counted five puppies.  After a couple more days, I was getting antsy and wanted them out so I could hold them.  I had to get a little creative to dig them out, but when I finally did I came out with a whopping SEVEN puppies!  They were all very cute and I instantly fell in love with them. 

 

After they were a little over a week old, I was getting ready for church when Zach’s dad, Allen came over.  I vaguely heard them chatting while I was getting ready for church.  Just as I was getting Stetzen’s clothes on to go, Zach came back in the house and said he had some bad news for me.  I guess earlier that morning while Allen was doing the chores, Lils got ran over and subsequently died.  At first, I couldn’t believe it had really happened.  I will admit I wasn’t the biggest fan of Lils because she was so rambunctious and full of energy.  She was a little more than I could handle, but she was starting to calm down.  After 30 seconds I started to cry!  Allen and Zach both cried and were devastated because she was a very smart dog and loved to go do chores and had just started to learn how to chase the cows on command. 

To top it all off, she had just had puppies.  In one day, I became a mom of eight instead of one.  We had to run over to the local farm & ranch supply store and bought all the bottles and powdered milk replacer.  When we first started to bottle feed them, they wouldn’t really drink anything.  I don’t know if it was because they couldn’t figure out how to suck from the bottle or because of the different milk.  We just hoped they’d figure it out soon and survive. 

After a day of trying, they finally figured it out and became little porkers!  It was fun to watch them grow, but being a newborn puppy’s mom was tedious and stinky, literally.  It was a good, sad experience. 

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Poe

Big Mac

Bandit

Teddy

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