Caldecacre's Blog

As most of you will know, we had resigned ourselves to thinking that there would be no puppies for Blinken and Boo this time. The repeat scan had shown no babies and so when Boo started to get some milk and look more rounded we presumed that she was having a Phantom pregnancy.

I wanted there to be a puppy so much that I kept looking at her tummy and was certain that there was a puppy there. My scan man was in Russia, I was snowed in and so finally we got an appointment to have her scanned again, this time at the vets around the time she would have been due to have her puppies.

I could not believe my ears when Andy, my vet ,said that there was a strong heartbeat, at first I thought he was talking about Boo's heartbeat, but then we saw the picture on the screen, and I literally cried with joy!! There he was, my Blinken x Boo baby!!

He was such a big puppy that we had our doubts that she would manage to deliver him naturally and sure enough we needed to go back to the vets this morning to have a C Section. The wait in the waiting room seemed like forever, and then I heard him! Such a great set of lungs to make all that noise to announce his arrival!! At the moment we are calling him Baby Blizzard due to the weather when he was born!

Mum, Dad, and baby all doing well :)

And here he is with his beautiful mummy.......

** edited .... Sadly Baby Blizzard left us at only 4 days old, Mother Nature can be so cruel, but always knows best, we are heartbroken.