Life’s Lessons

This is a long overdue post. I’ve been meaning to post about this but I waited until the photos have been uploaded to flickr so I don’t need to resize and watermark it.

Anyway, I can’t remember if I have posted in this blog that Maya is pregnant. After weeks that we noticed Maya is preggy, she was too uneasy in the morning of October 12. I told Ace (yes, it was a Monday but Ace is at home. He didn’t go to work that time and I am so glad he didn’t) to check on Maya for she might be in labor pain and will be giving birth anytime. After making her a comfy bed of old towel and clean rugs, Maya lied down but still groaning. We don’t know what to do and what to expect so I went inside the house and left Maya with Ace holding the camera so we could take photos of her birthing process. I went inside to ask mr. Google what to expect and what to do when a dog gives birth. Then I went back to Ace with a little info that a pup will come out first followed by a bag-like of water. After a few minutes, Maya is groaning so loud then a pup’s head came out of her.

She then licked the pup and clean it… then cut the umbilical cord and ate the placenta (that was actually gross!)

Aside from the uneasy and in pain Maya, Puto was also restless during the birthing process so Ace has to tie him so he won’t be disturbing Maya.

After a while, he must have understood that he has no role to play in the birthing process so he just lie down and wait….

After giving birth to 5 pups (3 of which are dead upon birth, and one died after a couple of hours), Maya seemed too tired.

What’s left with us is the first born pup. It’s a he! He was so cute. I wonder where he got his color. As you can see, Maya is brown and Puto is also light brown.

We named the pup “Borski” – Ace’ only sister’s nickname because it’s her birthday when Maya gave birth. But Che2x wanted to continue the legacy of “Maya” so we named the pup “Thirdie” (short for Maya III).

Here’s Thirdie at 2 days old….

Thirdie at 3 days old with dear Maya…so cute!

Now we have additional member of the family. Like real children, it brings us much joy looking and playing with our new pup, Thirdie. Poor Kiaw2x. He has to take the backseat for a while because Thirdie is the star of the house.

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