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Tasja's Motherhood Diary - #2

2/3/2016

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Wednesday 2nd March, Day 63.

I'm in the Presidential Suite and housekeeping is pretty good.  I'm getting served bone broth at the click of my paws and scrambled eggs and meat and lots of yummy stuff.  I'm being told I'm beautiful and clever and I even heard someone say 'amazeballs' - how very uncouth. 

I must say I'm rather impressed with how well I've played this whole thing.  I simply decided that my place is on the sofa and that's where I spent the evening of Monday 29th February (day 61 post ovulation).  I'm not one for that Interior Design Challenge programme, so I left them to it and went and lay down on the sofa in the snug, in the dark, mmmm nice and cosy.  At bedtime I simply took to the sofa in the Presidential Suite and there I slept, fitfully.

At some unGodly hour of the morning (I believe it was 05.30 - horrors) Mumma Liz gave me a cuddle and checked me over & went downstairs muttering to herself something about a cup of tea and needing to wake up.  Whilst she was gone I left a little present in the servant's quarters, but let's keep that between us, Delphi Dog the Cat took the rap.

So a few hours later I'm still lying on my sofa on top of the lovely whale patterned fleecy blanket that smells of home and everything is great.  Every time Liz looks at me I just lie completely still, like a statue, but smiling, very important to keep smiling.  She's looking for signs of digging but as I've previously mentioned, I don't do digging.  She's looking beadily for contractions, no, not showing her any of those - panting, digging and contractions?  People come on, I'm a Princess!  Ooooh, she's looking again, right everybody hold tight, don't move, smile - phew she stopped watching.
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Don't mistake rearranging the cushion for digging, no, I'm just giving housekeeping something to do....

Now Mumma Liz, as everybody knows, doesn't do numbers - she does colours and she can get a bit obsessed.  Take this whole domino thing.  She loves them and has been on a mission to find out about the inheritance of domino because she felt pretty sure that it isn't the case that both dogs have to carry it.  All her friends have had to listen to her theory, looked at the punnet square she's drawn up and nod in all the right places, yawn, I'm feeling a bit sleepy zzzzz.  Out of the corner of my eye I noticed she was sorting out the dirty laundry, in colour order of course!  Off she goes with her arms full of washing, bet she drops a pair of pants on the landing, it's a common housekeeping failing.

Now where was I?  Ah yes.  So Mumma Liz was only gone five minutes so I took that as my opportunity!  Having droned on and on (and on) about how it just needs a domino carrier (which could be me as my Mum has produced it) to be mated to a cream carrier, which my boyfriend Roope is (he has been DNA tested and Liz knows for sure he doesn't carry domino but does carry cream) and et voila, you 'could' get a domino puppy because domino is dominant only to cream.  So there I was on my sofa and when she came back into the room and looked at me I simply said - 'Here's your longed for domino puppy right here safely delivered onto the sofa, you were right, now let's hear no more about it'.  Oh Liz made lots of squealing noises and stuff and despite giving her her heart's desire, she became adamant that we must be uprooted into a bloody box of all things.  Don't try and tell me it's a lovely box and it's blue, I care not for colours, I love my sofa.  I refused. 

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I told her 'not THAT picture!'
I had to be carried, CARRIED, into the box.  My gorgeous puppy was already there but I wasn't happy so I picked him up in my mouth several times and moved him around, Mumma Liz went quite pale and muttered something about never having one of her girls do that before, but she needn't have worried, I was simply rearranging the furniture again and getting the vetbed exactly how I wanted it - nice colours by the way.....

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I quite like this pic of my firstborn son although I think I've looked better, but hey, for an awful moment I thought she was going to upload a video of me giving birth!
I'm not one to make a fuss so it wasn't long before I was happily observing my precious brood of five (four boys and one girl) discovering the joys of the Milkbar - when they could find it ....

So there we have it - the fifth generation of TabanyaRuu Finnish Lapphunds has been safely delivered.  More scrambled eggs please! ......

To be continued.
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Diary of Fatherhood in Roope's Own Words .....

29/2/2016

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I won't lie, it's an anxious wait.... 

I'm no stranger to parenthood & I take my responsibilities very seriously - I mean I have six kids already Up North and I know that one of them is called Elsa.

When Tasja came round to my gaff just before New Year - I was like wow!  She was just beautiful and she smelt like a French Tart - my face was like ....



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And she was everything I could have wished for and more - she even has a white splodge on her nose, how very Parisienne.  Christmas came all over again and when she left my face was like ....
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This was me on my walk today - I must have run to that tree and back a hundred times, well maybe twice, but I never let the truth get in the way of a good story.  I know I'll be told when things start to happen ..... but hurry up, I want news or dinner and soon.  Apparently the only excitement at the moment is that my Dad is getting blown in the garden!!

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Fiia's Puppy Announcement

16/11/2014

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PictureWaiting for things to kick off!
With only one puppy on board, I knew that the whelping of Fiia and Mika's puppy might be rather stressful. Sam the Scan confirmed the week before that indeed there was just the one pup but that it was an average size - so all I could do was hope for the best and hope that Fiia went into labour naturally and delivered without any problems.  I was buoyed up by the fact that Fiia's sister Kaija had herself had a singleton pup last year and went into labour & delivered 'Little Pickle' with no problems.  As this litter was the result of chilled semen inserted by AI, I knew exactly the due date as Fiia had been progesterone tested. Three times Fiia's temp dropped and she displayed signs of early stage labour, but it would come to nothing.  I was liaising closely with my vet during this time and when a shot of Oxytocin brought nothing more than half a dozen half hearted contractions, it was obvious that Fiia was suffering from Primary Intertia (inability to progress in labour due to insufficient hormones released, a relatively common condition in the case of a singletone pup) and a C-Section was now the only alternative.  I've never had a bitch need a C-Section before so it was a little nerve wracking to say the least, but it wasn't long before the puppy was brought into the consulting room where we'd been waiting, swaddled in a blanket with just its little face sticking out. Welcome to the world Billy No Mates!  Once Fiia had been stitched up, she too was brought in and Billy allowed to suckle whilst we waited for Fiia to come to.

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"Look what I made!!!"
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PictureA desperate attempt overnight to bring Fiia's temperature down.
Five and a half hours after arriving at the vets, we were able to leave with Fiia and Billy.  Fiia was a bit of a zombie for many hours afterwards, so we were having to stimulate Billy No Mates to go to the toilet using wet cotton wool - thankfully he got the hang of feeding although he was noticeably whingey for another twelve hours. Later that evening Fiia seemed mostly over the anaesthetic and was able to take over her maternal duties.


Sadly the following day things took a turn for the worse and Fiia developed an infection and soaring temperature.  I'm not going to go into details but suffice to say it's been a very stressful time with intermittent sleep and round the clock nursing.  It has been gruelling with endless vet visits and one problem after another - poor Fiia, she's been so unlucky.  Billy No Mates failed to gain any weight (although really strong and vigorous) and so yesterday he was 'topped up' after his feeds with goats milk.  Small wonder Fiia's milk has been lacking after the amount she has been through.  


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I knew my black hairy muff would come in useful one day! I pop the heated wheat bag inside & it becomes Billy's warm and cosy sibling :-)
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Andrew hand feeding Billy using the amazing sponge method (thank you Jennifer for putting me on to this, it's been brilliant!).
To learn more about this easy way to hand feed a pup, click here.
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Gorgeous Billy No Mates - 2 days old.
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Fiia feeling much better and actually enjoying the buster collar as she's rather fond of having a pillow!
Billy looks very much like his half brother Kimi at the same age.


A Lappy temperament is a sight to behold, Fiia has been so stoical it's unbelievable - the vets have been most impressed. Totally compliant at every stage, she has moved us to tears with her beautiful nature - it's really been an exceptionally emotional time.  My heartfelt thanks to my friend Mary of Starlapps Finnish Lapphunds who initially came for a weekend and ended up staying over a week, offering both moral support and hands on help as each crisis hit.  Fiia's co-owners have also been amazing and it was wonderful for them to visit a cheerful and proud Fiia as her condition improved - Andrew even got to hand feed Billy, awwwww that was a tear jerker.  


I'm pleased to report that Fiia is now healing and loving being a Mummy Dog again and Billy No Mates is eating well and growing.  What a special little boy he is (not to mention rather expensive!!!!). There is always a massive investment in each litter, both prior to the mating (researching pedigrees/health etc) and then once the pups have arrived, copious amounts of time and love are poured into each - but I have to say, this one is a record breaker on all counts!  I think we're going to have lots of fun with this special little chap - it's going to be agony to part with him but I'm not thinking about that just now.


Despite being a brilliant Mummy and a beautiful bitch with a temperament to match, Fiia will not be bred from again - I love her far too much to ever risk the same thing happening.  Instead I shall look forward to seeing what her gorgeous son Roope will produce in the near future - if they are anything like her, they will be special pups indeed :-)



Here's a little video of Billy No Mates taken yesterday at three days old - I'm afraid it's very dark, but just look at that little tail wagging!!
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