Tilly and Bruno Puppies Arrive

Gary and I had been on our vigil, watching Tilly from about Friday since she had puppies two days early when she had her last litter two years ago. Tilly however, had other ideas and kept hold of those little babies until the early hours of Wednesday morning when we became the proud grandparents of six beautiful puppies - seen in the picture opposite from left to right a liver and white boy, three black and white boys and two liver and white girls.
As before Tilly is proving to be a devoted mum feeding, cleaning and counting puppies each time we lift one out of the whelping box.
Of course nothing is getting done at home since the whelping box is in our big kitchen - the hub of our household - and as we all drift in and out we are all drawn to Tilly and her pups and just spend endless minutes watching them eat and sleep.