Still waiting

We are still waiting for the puppies and Missy looks like she is about ready to pop! Michael and I have worked out our schedules so that one of us will be able to be home at all times so that one of us will be there when it finally happens. I'm hoping that I'll be home since Michael hasn't prepared as much as I have. :) I got a fancy new camera for Christmas so once I figure out how to upload photos I'll post some picture of her belly.

Puppies! (plural)

Today we took Missy in to get her x-rayed to see how many puppies she'll be having. The vet tech started off by hurting her feelings (I know my feelings would be hurt if someone put a thermometer up my butt!) and so she sat in my lap and hid her face in my arm until it was time for the x-ray. Emily (our vet) said she did a really good job and didn't wiggle at all. We were able to see two puppies for sure, we could see their spine and heads mainly and Emily said that she thinks there may be a third one hiding behind the others. I won't lie, I was hoping for an answer like "you will be having x number of puppies" instead of a maybe, but now we are at least a little prepared. We only have about two and a half weeks to go so we are trying to think of names. I like the names Harley and Brutus, Michael wants to name them nerd names like MegaTron, Kal-El (superman) and any other name he can think of from a comic book or his wizard books. I veto the majority of them pretty fast but told him I'd think about naming one Bond (yeah, like James Bond). Good thing we have some time to think...

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Petree is getting fixed today. Michael dropped him off early this morning and we'll go back this afternoon to get him. They called after they had put him down and said that he still had his baby canine teeth, so they had to pull those in order to avoid problems in the future. Poor guy, he gets teeth pulled and his manhood chopped off all in one day. Missy is getting bigger every day! We only have about 3 weeks left and we find out in a week how many she'll be having.

Pregnant!!

So we took Missy in for her appointment today. Our vet, Emily, who is awesome (even though she did go to OSU), felt around for a minute and said there is at least one puppy in there, maybe two. The first time (that we know of) that they did 'it' was Halloween, so we are about 32 days into the pregnancy. Around 45 days is when the puppies would show up on an x-ray, so we are going to take her back in around then so that we will know just how many puppies to expect. The gestation period for dogs is only around 63 days and they say smaller dogs usually have shorter pregnancies. SO, we may be having New Years babies. We are excited but a little nervous too. I have been reading up on it online though, and it seems pretty straight forward. They say to start taking her temperature twice a day, and then when there is a drop in temperature of a degree or two, then she'll go into labor in the next 24 hours. So a heads up will be nice. Missy isn't the only one having all the fun, though. We are making an appointment for Petree to get fixed, probably in the next couple weeks as well. Missy will get fixed, too, probably about 2 months after she's had the puppies and they're weaned. Thank goodness we have their health plans!