Well Tilly is five weeks to her first mating today and blossoming. She is such a happy little girl and thoroughly enjoying all the attention (and extra food) that she is getting. She is very quiet and contented but happy to come and roll onto her back and show you her 'babies' when asked - a trick that she obviously remembers from her first pregnancy.
The general consensus is that you should not increase a bitches food when they are first in whelp but someone recently said to me that 'they haven't read the text books' and act on instinct and I totally agree. So we have reached a compromise and only slightly increased what we are feeding Tilly but have increased the highly nutritious foods like fish and eggs. Whilst she is still ravenous we have noticed over the last few days that instead of tucking in as she usually would, she is hesitating and sniffing her food before eating. Needless to say very soon she will be telling us what she does and does not want.
Anyway, Gary and I are so excited about having a new edition to the family. Gary has already picked a name should he keep a little boy... Fraggle, after the childrens program Fraggle Rock. So since we like to give each new litter a new theme in respect of their names - this litter is going to be named after favourite childrens programs or characters.
We have updated our website with pictures and details of this litter and in particular images of Bruno which we hope you will enjoy.
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