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[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

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>Which means More Puppies! Many more! 24 at a time!
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>Lbs

Leigh,

I sincerely hope not!  Which reminds me of this story:  When Peaches had 
her 14 it was an awful experience, like a full 24 hours of whelping 48 no 
sleep...  It goes on.  When I took Scarlette in to be x-rayed with her 
first litter and they said to many to count I thought I was going to 
faint.  Thank goodness Ellen was with me to hold me up and explain to the 
vet why I was about to bust into tears.  If you want to make me cry and 
loose sleep just tell me my girl has to many to count...   Anything over 10 
on a x-ray means possible trouble.  I vote for moderation.  Not like 
Sprite, but more like 8, 8 is a good even number, two trips when they are 
small enough to carry 4 at a time and 2 trips when you have help... :-)

Things we are going to diffrent with Gidget's litter:  1. talked to the vet 
yesterday about not repeating the giardia adventure.  One trip down that 
road was enough...  So at 4 weeks she is going to have me use horse Panacur 
(same as dog just more concentrated and cost less)  Then again just before 
go home.

We are also going to litter box train the puppies.  I have essentially done 
this in the past by putting the chips only in the corner of the deck but we 
are going to this time contain the chips in a cement mixing tray.  This 
will hopefully keep them from playing in their poop as much hence hopefully 
help in control of giardia and coccidia.

I know not very interesting to most of you...

Gina :-)