Oh Yeah, You Blend

Massive pile of clean laundry. Towels, bedding, facecloths etc. Unpacked the supplies bin, washed everything in unscented detergent, folded. Ready to go.

Made a batch of liver water (OMG my whole house smells like boiled liver). Then made a batch of Myra Savant Harris’s puppy formula. Froze the leftover liver water and the formula in ice cube trays. All now in labeled Ziploc bags in the freezer. Better to be prepared. Plus Zhora can drink it!

I will make Zhora some mother’s porridge (steel cut oats, goat’s milk, eggs and other stuff) to help support her lactation once everybody has arrived.

Tomorrow night is her last dose of Regumate. Then we wait. I plan to be prepared from Tuesday night on (it takes a while for the Regumate to leave her system, most of what I can find says 36 hours at least before anything gets going but you never know). I will go to work Wednesday morning, Jim will stay here and call me if it looks like anything is imminent.

As of today, they are officially cooked enough to be likely to survive even if they’re born early (and remember “normal” is 63 days from ovulation plus or minus a day, which puts us Wednesday-Friday).

As much as I love planning breedings and raising puppies, I am not a fan of whelping. Even though 90% go just fine with no intervention at all (and how many dogs whelp in back alleys and do ok?), and there’s all that miracle of life stuff that really is amazing, it’s always stressful until everyone is out, and really until everyone is a few weeks old, to be honest.

I do feel much better with a repro vet on call. And I’ve reviewed my books and feel about as prepared as I can be. After tomorrow evening, it’s up to Zhora.

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