Fancy's New Litter Born Tuesday

Oh she's a mess in this photo, but she had been through an ordeal. After all day long of labor and delivery, Fancy gave us our S Litter - 10 pups total - 9 girls and 1 boy. They are all black and tan in color except four girls which are sable.

Britney finally had her pups - Tue Mar 9

Well, she finally had them. Britney was due Saturday, and we were starting to get concerned. But she finally whelped on Tuesday. She had three silver sable girls and one white boy. This will be Brit's last litter - she'll be eight years old in November - we've decided to let her finish out her years in retirement.

Here's a picture of the four pups and their tired mom.

Reba went a couple days early

Reba surprised us Sunday - we were expecting Britney's litter to be whelped and Reba shocked us by having hers. She had seven pups - two boys and five girls.

Here you can see Reba feeding the seven pups - And you can see she did a number on the wooden rails of the whelping box.


Here's the seven pups - big and healthy and hungry.

Here's some new snow pictures

Here's Smokey - six weeks pregnant -



Here's Magnum -

And Jackson - (this little cajun didn't like the snow) -

Now Britney (from New Hampshire) loved it - She's also six weeks pregnant.

Anya was very excited to be playing in the snow.

Little Tasha - only 12 weeks old - had a ball romping in the snow -

New Pups for Lady - Born Wednesday

Lady x. Max produced our O Litter on Wednesday, February 10. She has six pups - three males & three females.

Here's the mom and pups on the eve of delivery -


Here's the three male pups -

Here's the three female pups -

I have not kept up with the blog the way I would have wished, but let's begin anew --

Bella delivers through the night and has eight beautiful little black and red pups. She began her labor last night around 10:00, and by noon today had whelped six boys and two girls. She was quite the trooper throughout and today seems none the worse for the wear.

Bella was one of five pups born here in Tasha's first and only litter. Some may remember that during delivery of Tasha's second litter one of the pups turned, cutting off the blood to the uterus, and the entire litter of five was lost, as was Tasha's uterus, ovaries, and all chances to produce any more pups. Bella's sire Zane, owned by Shane and Ashley Ezell, has also not produced any more litters. So Bella, her two sisters, Lili and Kayla, and her two brothers, Brutus and Capone, are Tasha's and Zane's lone progeny. But now --- GRANDPUPPIES!!!

So now Bella becomes our first second generation mother here at Ravenna Kennels. She's the first to whelp a litter who was also born here. She actually whelped in the same birthing room in which she was born. We're so excited -- we've been anticipating this litter for a while.

Here are mother and pups.

Here's Amigo, the pups' sire.


Here's the eight pups.


And here's Bella when she was a pup here at Ravenna Kennels.

K Litter's Growing Well

Saturday, we let Fancy have a little respite from her motherly duties. She got out in the kennel yard and romped a bit. The pups were 8 days old and it was the first break she had taken away from them. I think she enjoyed the time off. then when she went back in, she returned to her responsibilities.

Then yesterday, Tuesday, I noticed that about half of the puppies are starting to open their eyes. They are also crawling around a bit more. It's time now to put carpet in the whelping box so they can get some traction as they learn to walk.

As you can see, mother and all 11 puppies are doing well.