Millie has given birth to seven healthy pups, the first came out at 21:40 and the last at 23:15.  She was more than capable and knew exactly what to do herself – really amazing to watch nature in action.

So we tagged them with a colour to start with, then once the drama was over we looked for markings to tell them apart – and they do have some individuality – much to our amazement.  Very subtle though – but different.

Two were born significantly lower weights and we just hope they pull through and suckle properly.  All look to be ‘Blue’ Bedlingtons – if you don’t know what this means, it’s just the colour of their coat will be a light grey/almost blue colour.

So the table of stats…

Labour started 20:30

Puppy 1 – Red – born 21:40 – Female – 164g – ‘I’ marking on her chest, white toe front right.

Puppy 2 – Blue – born 21:50 – Female – 174g – white stripe marking on chest, pink paws.

Puppy 3 – Green – born 22:20 – Male – 133g – ‘batman splodge’ marking on her chest, black paws.

Puppy 4 – Orange – born 22:30 – Male – 175g – triangle marking on chest, pink rear right paw.

Puppy 5 – Purple – born 22:45 – Female – 130g – double splodge bit like a heart on chest.

Puppy 6 – White – born 23:00 – Male – 163g – ‘L’ marking on her chest.

Puppy 7 – Yelow – born 23:15 – Female – 163g – tiny splodge on her chest.

All well so far…