Friday, February 13, 2009

Serengeti and her baby girl

Serengeti and baby sleeping


Our little baby was one of the puppies we almost lost.
I got up every two hours during the night to check on all the puppies for the first two weeks and one morning around 1:00 am I found our baby girl only three days old, alone on one end of the box. She was cold and lifeless but still had a heart beat. I yelled for Aaron to come help me as I grabbed a towel and stoked her quickly to get her circulation going like hospitals do with new infants and held her over a hot stove. We grabbed an infant syringe and dropped warm milk into her mouth. She could not swallow or move. I thought we lost her but I was not willing to give up. This continued for 2 1/2 hours tell she finally seemed to be breathing more then shallow breaths on her own. We think that she just did not have a strong enough sucking ability to get the food she needed and may have been slowly dying over those three days. I bottle fed her along with three others that seemed to have the same sucking difficulty every two hours for two weeks. Look at her now. She's our little miracle baby. And...Serengeti is happy to have someone to play with again. We've yet to name her as I am a professional procrastinator and won't name her tell I feel it's the perfect name. :)