Tigre's 2011 Puppy Blog: Continuing with BIRTH DAY

2am this morning I woke to Tigre' digging and shaking, got up and all of the puppies were soaked with amniotic fluid, etc. I wiped them down and put them in the little heating pad incubator. After a few she's persistent to have her babies so a little more dried off I give them back to her.

by 3:30am I'm so tired I can't even think, Tigre' is still slightly shaking and not whimpering as much. I think I remember laying down.

6:30am I wake up, ready to get everybody outside to potty. I count Tigre' puppies ... 8 puppies! I counted them again, they are all black, four unmarked so I count one more boy.

total count this moring 6 boys and 2 females, I did notice one had a tiny white slash on the chest, while they were nursing last night, one of the foot had all white toes, there's a couple with a tiny white gotee.

Momma is exhausted, we've pushed and prodded to get all of those puppies out safely.

I had decided at 3:30 this morning I'd have to take her into the vets to flush the last puppy

the vet explained yesterday that the puppy only has about six hours to survive with only placenta air, once they start being born the chain of oxygen is broken

this skinny little black boy had 14 hours or more ... since I really don't know when exactly he was born, I'm guessing at 3:45am, he’s got an awesome momma that took care of him all by herself. Tigre' is the bomb!

How do I register 7 puppies born 4/19 and one puppy born 4/20?

Introducing Tigre' and Everad's 2011 beautiful sea of black puppies
#1 female puppy born at the vets at 12:35pm on Tues April 19th, "Elyria"
#2 male puppy born at the vets at 12:54pm "Everly" blue ribbon
#3 male puppy born at the vets at 1:07pm "Ethan" yellow ribbon
#4 male puppy born at the vets at 2:10pm "Enrique" green ribbon
#5 male puppy born in the car on highway 215 at 6:00pm "Entei" (on-tay)
#6 female first puppy born at home at 6:28pm "Etienne"
#7 male puppy born at home at 7:48pm, "Emmit" he had to fight to catch his breath
#8 male puppy born after 3:30am with no assistance from the humans on Wed April 20th "Ellington"

puppies are black, some have white/silvery hairs on the pads of their feet which means silver, couple have white on their feet and toes, they look related to D'Angelo and Demi but they are not.

Will take a couple of days to get acclamated with the pups, weigh them again, start getting use to this sea of beautiful black puppies ... just so you know, we might have a couple of silvers out of the bunch.

Puppies will be small standard poodles about 18-23" ... about 30-45#, will be able to tell more once they start to grow up and become their little personalities and bodies. I have to tell you though, they are a bunch of sweet loving puppies. Momma is very calm and cuddly with them, her head is usually over a couple of them, she curls around them to keep them safe. There's usually one under her neck as she cuddles with them and the whole litter.