Safira's litter of 11 is one week old. They have doubled their birthweight already. ( Haven't we all have gained a bit more than we wanted to the past week?)

       Chocolate male wearing the green collar is the darkest chocolate puppy in the litter
              Chocolate male wearing tan collar (bottom left and right) is the biggest,
                                                           weighing  1.08 KG today

                      I forgot to include Safira's 3 puppies that Luxe is caring for in these pictures.
                                     But oh well I'll remember for their 2 week old picture.
                                                 (There should be 11 pups in this collage)

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                         Just took another picture on my  phone - including the whole litter
                                             All 11 of Safira's pups are  in the picture

The 1st MONDAY morning in these puppies' career. Work to do (eat, sleep, grunt, etc.)

Luxe monkeys

                                                           She's mine!

                                                              Safira's caseload

                                   love the scrunched up nose on chocolate male

A couple of videos is all for today.

Safira's puppies must feel dinner is only on a first come first serve basis

...are they food driven labs?

LUXE and her company of 8.

She is a happy little mom.

And her puppies are fatter than fat!

Pictures of the day.

The whole kit and kaboodle. Growing like weeds. (3 - 5 days old)

At times it can be difficult to get a drink

Everyone, have an awesome day with your family!

LUXE and SAFIRA's litters

                  ( Safira's little black female was a pancake this morning. Those things happen)
                                                      ...so there are now 16 puppies

                                    Have you ever seen a more beautiful winter's day?

                                                         Snowy kennel

                                                             overflow kennel

                                       Just waiting for family (grandchildren) to arrive

My snowy welcome birds

                                  Grandsons came and like it when Gramma has puppies

                                            Kip is 'almost' brave enough to touch a puppy

Kip says 'don't drop the puppy'

for those of you following my dog blog, we have done a little math at WINDARA and have decided to even up Safira and Luxes' workload

Safira has 12 pups and 8 teets.
Luxe has 5 pups and 10 teets.

...so we have transferred 2-3 chocolate puppies from Safira over to Luxe's care. We will monitor how that helps the situation. Luxe accepted them as her own right away!

                                           Congratulations Luxe

      Safira's litter 3 days old

    Today's cuteness overload - just a hungry little fella enjoying breakfast



There, those ugly dew claws are gone, gone, gone!

LUXE had her little family- born Wednesday evening. Total of 5 ( 3 males 2 females )

        I just had to post this picture of the first puppy ( less than a minute old ) sucking his leg
                                            - crazy on sucking anything and everything!
                                              He is one big bruiser weighing 580 grams

here he is, a Yellow male now wearing his green collar.

Up on all 4 legs sucking.

Never seen the likes of one so strong.

                                                   second puppy a Yellow male

                                                            third puppy a  Black male

                                                          fourth puppy a Black female

                                  fifth puppy a Yellow female ( fox yellow )
                                                              #canikeepher?

                              sixth puppy a BIG chocolate female born backwards
                                                     ... didn't make it.
                             Miss beautiful was the Hershey dark brown pup of the litter

Another exciting day at WINDARA. This is how our day went

Made it thru the night with no squishes! YAY SAFIRA   ( Safira is so tired )

        MIDAZZ wonders how is a person to get any sleep with all the puppy grunts and squeaks?

                           LUXE confesses REMI is the man responsible for scenario
                            - an ooops litter coming up soon by the looks of this belly

                                                      Goodbye dew claws

                                                 ... just 8 more weeks of this Safira
                                         Bath, bath, bath ( X 12)  then start all over again

Puppies should be here on schedule....Safira in labour tonight. I'll post pictures as I have the time

first puppy is a chocolate female

                                                          second puppy a chocolate male

                                                third puppy a chocolate female

                                       (Safira still looks like she could have a dozen in there!)

                                                  fourth puppy a black male

                                          fifth puppy a chocolate female

                              Safira couldn't deliver her next puppy.  Here we are at the vet clinic.
                          Thankyou Dr. Anne R. for delivering  sixth puppy - a chocolate male

                                          seventh puppy a black female

                                         eighth puppy a chocolate male

                                          ninth puppy a chocolate male

                                              tenth puppy a chocolate female

                                          eleventh puppy a chocolate male

                  ...oops ( twelfth puppy a stillborn chocolate female ) Safira  loves her anyway.

                                                thirteenth puppy a chocolate male.
                                                X-ray shows Safira is all finished

                                                         We are back home from the vet.
                                  Congratulations Safira! 12 living  -  7 males and 5 females

                                 Safira doing a head count and yes they are all accounted for.
                                                                Everyone happy!

Service dog ELLIE (and feathered friend OLIVER) Ellie is 6 years old, partner with Beverley.