Hello friends! For those of you who are self-disciplined enough to not scroll down and find puppy pictures, we have puppies over here! Marmee labored all day Christmas day and started having her puppies at 1:15am the 26th. She seemed done by 7:30am with 12 puppies in all. We got her cleaned up and situated and two hours later Bug yelled at me that something new was going on and when I went over to see what it was, it was a 13th puppy being born! I feared he would be dead since it had been so long since the last puppy but he wasn't. He was by far, the biggest puppy and came out kicking and squealing. So we had 13 puppies, and all have survived. Marmee has been an amazing mama to them. She is very devoted and seems to have great instincts. Everything has been quite easy so far. Now that they are walking and wrestling I'm sure things will get more lively! Oooookay
Farm Update: The 3rd So, It was me and Tender’s day to do the outdoor chores. We noticed Paulo was acting weird. He wouldn't get up and eat or drink. It wasn't like Grady; he was relatively awake and alert he just wouldn't get up. Tender being the worrier she is, immediately started coming up with these crazy things and tried to drag me into her panic. Me, being the optimist by decision, talked her down and said he was just tired or something. Somehow, by the grace of God who makes no mistakes, I was at a nine-hour youth event when he stopped breathing. Apparently, he still had a pulse but it wouldn't have lasted long. They'd kept me updated during the day and I was in class when they said they needed to ”put him down”. I managed to forget about it the rest of the day and I'm so glad that God has kept me out of the house the two times a more significant animal died. I hope he continues to do so. For now, all we can do is hope he didn't have a contagious disease. I found out a few weeks later that it wasn’t a disease. Buster was displaying something of the same behavior so we called the vet. The vet told us what I kind of suspected all along: we took them off formula too early, and Paulo’s digestive system didn’t know how to process real food properly. I was... if not angry, then horribly grieved to find this out. I’d begged dad and told him over and over we were taking them off too early, and his confidence cost a living thing it’s life. I wasn’t mad at him, maybe just really disappointed that we didn’t have the hindsight (or That I did) to prevent something like that. Anyway, Busters doing fine. We also sold Edward and Joon. Which makes me kind of sad, but that's farm life for you. We would've had to butcher them anyways. On a lighter note, Marmee’s had her babies! On Christmas day I woke up and mom said she was in labor. First stage to be specific. We set the kiddi pool in a corner of mom and dad's room and I rigged up a camera system. Unfortunately, the second stage didn't start until like 6 pm, when we were going to see the new Wonder Woman. Thankfully she didn't have any until much later. Dad called me at 1 am and said Marmee had just had number one. I went down to see her, but didn’t stay for more than a few minutes. In the morning, before I’d even properly woken up, I was downstairs to help with the last two. They were all 12, perfectly healthy. We moved them to beside the desk and I guess moving around triggered something because Marmee had another! Number thirteen, an absolutely huge Black and Tan, male. He was the first one reserved unsurprisingly, in case you were wondering. They were sooo perfect. Technically you aren’t supposed to touch newborn puppies, but we broke that rule every minute of the day. We put up a Craigslist page and got responses within 48 hours. By a week after we had about 9 reserved. Now they are all reserved. Anyways, that’s the scoop on Marmee’s (and our) babies. Not much else has happened in terms of our growing farm. We got rabbits(two does, Hazel and Cresent), a couple chickens died (old news right?) and that’s about it. The Gardeners came to visit us and rode the horse. He bucked eventually but we worked him harder and he did well the rest of the day. Till next time guys
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