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CBKC
Newsletter
  Omigod,omigod..there's a Monster under the bed.. OH, wait....it's a Dachshund Puppy ! A True Story of Teenage Strength and Love....... by Christine Power ! It was Jan. 13,
2007. After whelping a litter of two on Jan 8th my husband and I
felt we needed " a break" for a night all to ourselves in
Newfounlands big city, St.John's. Now we have three teenagers of our
own here at home and one exchange student from Korea. We did have a
second litter due in a weeks time so we did the temperature check and
all seemed great for a night away; after all we were only 50 min. away.
So off we went, leaving our four teens home Three boys ages 16,
16, 14 and our daughter Jessica who is 12.
At 12:30 pm we called home as we liked to check to see that
all our teens were in the house , plus check on the puppies and
Nikita our expecting mom. Jessica said all was great, all boys were
home, she was sleeping in our bedroom with puppies and Nikita was in
bed with her. Great, we could go to sleep and head home in morning.
Plus the weather was not nice it was freezing rain.
Now mind you this wonderful new hotel had a nice feature - all
long distance calls were free. Wow that was nice. Boy, will they
be sorry. LOL
At 1:30 am the phone rang in our room...
oh boy; Jessica was yelling that one puppy arrived under
our bed (silly little buggger: the puppy , not Jessica). Nikita is now
in the whelping box with the other two puppies from Zena's litter, and
one puppy was now on it's way out. Jeremy was screaming , we are
on speaker phone, " what do we do"? Luciano who is 16 was throwing up
in my garbage bucket in my bedroom, and Woo Jin from Korea exited stage
right to his room. (smart kid)
Jessica took over ... " shut up : get face cloths, scissors , dental floss and pass me the first puppy; Jeremy you write down times of arrivial and boy or girl; Luciano, you pass me the supplies as I need them"
Wow was I Impressed. Over the next three
hours Jessica whelped 6 puppies; four boys and two
girls.The boys set up second whelping box and transfered newborns
to the new whelping box and, between some choice words I rather
not print and a screaming Jessica, with the help of her two brothers
whelped 6 beautiful healthly Minaiature Long Haired Dachshunds. We hung
up the phone at 4:45 am Jan 14 . At 9 am we checked out to a clerk who
had to ask if we had any problems as they noticed we were on the
phone all night.
On our arrival home we found three very tired teens and one new mother with her 6 beautiful babies sleeping in a nice clean whelping box with heating pad. Zena was on other side of room with her two 6 day old girls and a garbage bag full of dirty face cloths and a tray of whelping supplies .
Luciano our newest son from Mexico said on our arrivial
" Jessica is going to be a wonderful Doctor, she was calm and kept her cool through the whole thing, I just do not want to witness any of this again, I was soooo sick"
Jeremy our 14 year old son, said Jessica was great. She broke the sacs,
suctioned the mouths, checked the palets, showed me where to tie the
cords and tied the cords, she even picked up the ugly placentas and
placed them in garbage. Mom it was gross but cool. She yelled to us to
do stuff and keep records. NOW, mom what do we get for doing
this????? :}
People
....to say we are proud would be understatement.
Jessica got her Reward and the boys too. Whelping is and can be a challenge for the best of us breeders, but I can say deep from the heart that my teens are up for the challenge. |
=========================  Congratulations to Carolyn Legge on her graduation from the Atlantic Veterinary College at UPEI. She will receive her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine on May 12, 2007. She received a Master of Science degree in Veterinary Medicine from UPEI in 2003, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 2000. Carolyn, as a member of our kennel club, competed as a junior handler for several years and in 1993 she became the first ever Provincial Junior Handler to compete at the National finals at the Credit Valley Kennel Club dog shows held at Skydome in Toronto. She went on to win the provincial title 3 years in a row. Congratulations Carolyn from parents, Albert & Elaine, sister Andrea, brother-in-law Tracy, and all her family and friends as well as the Conception Bay Kennel Club. |
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