The Deed Is Done!
Ollie arrived Friday evening, we nearly had a tie but just couldn’t quite get it done. So Saturday Kat and I sat and watched several videos on how to collect and inseminate (thank goodness I took Renee the repro tech’s advice and picked up two AI kits on Friday!), and then we collected Ollie and inseminated Alice. We were pretty sure they could have managed a natural breeding yesterday but after three near misses we decided to just get it done one way or another.
I am fortunate that Ollie has been collected several times, so he knows what it’s about, and I was really impressed with myself that I managed it!
I think our timing should have been good (today is most likely the last day of the window). We got one AI done yesterday and another this morning. So hopefully we were well within the window, hopefully I did it right, and hopefully all goes well.
I am so grateful to Kat for driving here to make this happen. Fingers crossed for a healthy Alice and a pregnancy!
Ollie is such a lovely dog, so happy and friendly and easy-going, I am really excited to see how this cross turns out!
Dog breeding is not for the faint of heart, not many people can say that they spent their weekend learning how to collect and AI dogs…
