Giving Molly a bath. Her and Mo both try to find a sneaky way to climb out while I'm doing this.
One day at our old house we looked outside to find Molly all bunched up asleep on this chair. I guess the towels I put in her house were wet and she wanted to be up off the ground.
This is when Mo was just a little bit older, maybe 3 and half months. Molly would have been 7-8 months old here.
Well this is MoJo now!! When he was six months old he surpassed Molly in size even though she is 6 months older than he is.
And this is pretty Molly full grown, laying inside watchin tv with me one night.
Here they are, our two pooches. Well, one time when Molly was in heat my efforts to keep them apart failed. I tied them up in opposite corners of the yard and kept them in their kennel in tight quarters often. One night I put them out to pee. Closed the door, got a drink, and heard some yelping, only to open the door to find that they had done it, ya know, 'IT'. And as a result on December 31, 2009 we got these..........
But not just this one little guy, nope. We got 8 of them!!! Molly actually had 10 but 2 didn't make it. We would have had 10!!!! NUTSO!!!
Here they are, all 8 of them. 4 black, 3 grey and 1 with brown in her. You can see the one with brown in her laying next to the grey one in the picture above. She is the only one with brown, the rest are grey and jet black.
We are pretty sure we have a split, 4 girls, 4 boys. We counted once when they were only a couple of days old and hold them from time to time, but haven't gone back to do a double check and have just let Mommy and puppies do their thing.
The morning of December 31, 2009, 6:15am (my alarm for work does not go off until 6:45am)
MoJo starts barking. I am barelling down the stairs with every intention to yell at him and hit him on the nose. I take the first two steps down the stairs and hear this little whimper. Then I bend down and see this little figure. I run halfway back up the stairs and yell, 'BABE! PUPPIES!!!' Chase's reaction (half asleep) 'Ah crap, she's having her puppies!?' I let Mo out of the kennel and send him upstairs to Chase so he can put him outside and feed him. By the time Chase was done that and came downstairs Molly had 2 puppies. We sat with her for a while and she was taking a break. We knew more puppies were coming because of the size of her belly, but she was not ready to push the rest out yet. I had to get ready for work, so I did that while Chase sat with Molly. When I left for work there was still only 2. An hour or two later I get a phone call, there are 4, she had 5 but one didn't make it. Four is good, I thought, I can handle four. He kept me updated all day but still only 4. Well, an hour before I was going to leave work to come home, Chase calls, we have 7 puppies!!! She had 9 and another one hadn't made it. :(
SEVEN!! I get home and I wanted to see them so we go downstairs, they are laying in the bed we had just thrown together that morning and Chase was taking them out one by one and counting them. He grabs the 7th one, Molly gets out of the bed, we are rearranging the towel and low and behold there is a puppy hidden in it!!! EIGHT PUPPIES!!!!!!
Its true, we have 8. Mommy is doing well, I'm trying to keep up with her eating so she can feed all those puppies plus keep some meat on her bones but she is skinny and will probably be for a while. Dad can't go anywhere near them without getting a lashing from Molly. So Mo only see's them when we put Molly outside and bring a couple upstairs to hold and let him sniff them out. He doesn't really care about them anyways. They are 8 days old today and getting bigger. I don't know what i'm gonig to do with myself when they find out they can bark and yelp.
Pray for me. And if anyone wants to buy a dog, I have 8!!!