Today is April 7th and Koko has 16-20 days left until the puppies come. Some sources say that it is 63 days and some say it's 67 days so we'll just have to see when they actually are born. One big variable with dogs is how many will they have and how will we know when she is done? We are considering x-raying her so we can get a head count before the action starts. I have an X-ray machine at my office and a friend of mine (thanks Heidi) who works at an animal hospital is getting me the correct factors to use to x-ray a pregnant dog for the count. The father-to-be has already sired two other liters that were 11 puppies each! Koko's whelping box is in the house (she has been an outside dog all her life) so she has been spending more and more time inside as she gets bigger and more lethargic. The idea is to get her very comfortable there so she will have her puppies in it and not under the bed or behind a bush or something. She has not had any trouble at all adapting to a more inside life. The trouble will come when she has to transition back outside! Surely the weather will be nice and warm by then and she will want to be outside. We'll see.
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