Sweet Sadie is not so sweet anymore! Fat and grumpy, she's not adjusting to impending motherhood or perhaps she's just impatient with late pregnancy. She no longer likes any food we give her for more than one meal. We're tempting her with various puppy foods, chicken broth, hand feeding and when all else fails, expensive dog cookies. Tonight she did something funny--took her cookies into a crate and tried to hoard them inside the mat! I could hear her tummy rumbling and finally Sadie relented and ate her cookies. All the while, her full food bowl is sitting nearby.
Sadie now refuses to go into her special kennel yard but I think she doesn't like to be alone anymore. She's in the nursery now, probably sleeping, and we'll indulge her every whim until the puppies arrive. Tomorrow I will finish cleaning her room, give her a bath and hope that Sadie won't have the puppies at least until Monday. Saturday, we're hosting an ice cream social at our house for the Northern Virginia Collie Club and I'm not planning on a whelping puppy demo to go with the rest of the events!
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