tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69791272011-04-21T15:00:55.946-06:00.....the ongoing story of a young Samoyed and her litter of puppies....Annenoreply@blogger.comBlogger891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979127.post-1149618950559314752006-06-06T12:11:00.000-06:002006-06-06T12:35:50.573-06:00

I should have posted this weeks ago!Aliy had another litter of puppies! Two boys and a girl, born May 14. Visit them at Aliy's new blog, Aliy's World, the Sequel. And of course this means the Aliy-Cam is back in action!

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In my last post I promised if there was and Big News in the lives of the puppies I'd make a short update here on Aliy's World. So here I am.News Item Number One: 8 month old babe took her first points this past weekend under breeder-judge Rudy Munoz. A 4 point major the weekend of the Arizona Specialty. I'm just about bursting with pride! Keep up with Babe's (and the other WhiteStar's) are up

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Aliy's Angels are 10 weeks old today. The three that are not staying here at WhiteStar are in their new homes. Mia is in California, Bonnie and Domino are still here in Colorado. It's time to turn off the Aliy-Cam and say goodbye to Aliy's World. I will ocasionally update this blog with any big news that occurs in the lives of the puppies, but for more day to day information about Babe and

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It was a whirlwind week for little Mia. First we realize the home she was to go to might not be the place for her to go. Then another home in California is found but to get there she must FLY. Some people ship dogs by air all the time. I've never done it. I don't fly and I don't want my dogs flying but this home was so perfect we had to get Mia out there. Meanwhile, Kelly, Ilsa and I had

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Some things were just Meant To Be. Stay tuned to this channel.....

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It was a warm windy day today on the plains. What did Babe and Mia do? Not much. Rested And worked at looking cute! Which is not hard to do... ... when you are a 9 week old Sammie puppy! The Fate of Aliy's World? I'm not sure what to do with Aliy's World and the Aliy-Cam. Both have served their purpose. I'm not going to delete Aliy's World, it has so much good information that even

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It appears that my little Purple Girl is without a home. As recently as two weeks ago the people who were supposed to get her indicated they wanted her. They had been waiting since before Aliy was even bred so there was no reason for me to doubt the seriousness of their desire for a puppy. They came and saw the puppies when they were three weeks old and tried to give me a deposit on one. They

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Mia (the puppy formerly known as Purple) will also be staying here at WhiteStar.... but only for a couple more weeks until the details for her new home are finalized! In the meantime she can keep Babe occupied. Mia at 9 weeks. Yes. I know I'm cute. When do I get to go home???? For now I'm calling her Mia after soccer star Mia Hamm. Will this end up being her forever name???? Time will

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"The Babe is here. Who's coming in second?" Babe Didrikson Zaharias Babe (the puppy formerly known as Red) is staying right here. She is named after the great Babe Didrikson Zaharias, possibly the greatest female athlete to have ever lived. If you don't know who Babe is, or you think she was "just a golfer" check this out. In addition to golf, Babe played softball, baseball, basketball

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And now there are two. Bonnie (the puppy formerly known as Yellow) left about 15 minutes ago. Yes, I cried again. Bonnie has gone off to live with New Dad Mike where she has bunches of adventures to look forward to. I know she will be loved and cared for, but it's still so hard to let them go. Aliy poses for one last picture with her daughter. New Dad Mike and Bonnie. Bonnie heads home

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Domino (the puppy formerly known as Black) left for her new home just a short half hour ago. Yes, I cried. But I know that Domino is in a wonderful home that she will share with New Dad Carl, New Mom Dottie and her new big brother and sister, Skye and Nikki. Aliy poses with Domino and her new family. Domino and New Dad Carl are hitting it off already. Domino waves goodbye. Domino is

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The Angels at 8 weeks.... I can't believe there will be no 9 week portraits of all of them. Two of them will probably be leaving this weekend. The third will go in a few weeks. The last eight weeks have flown by and I can't believe how hard it will be to say goodbye to these little girls. In my last litter I had 3 boys and 3 girls. I knew from the day they were born I would not be keeping

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The Angels have a new CHAMPION big "sister"! I know this blog is supposed to be about the puppies, but I had such a GOOD weekend at the dog show with Ilsa and Kelly I just gotta BRAG! On Saturday, Ilsa finished her championship by winning her fourth 4 point major AND taking Best of Breed over all the specials! That pretty much made my weekend right there, but the girls were not finished. On

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This is Kelly at 5:30 am yesterday morning. She had been out less than 15 minutes. What was she doing?????!!! Just think, the little Angels can look like this in just a few months. And most likely the one that stays here WILL look like this! Ilsa, Kelly and I are heading out to a weekend dog show this evening so no new news until Monday when I post the 8 week portraits!

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The puppies went on their first car trip today! And they went to the vet for the first time. Okay, so they actually rode in a car to the vets when they were four days old to have their dewclaws removed. But we're not counting that because they were kind of "unaware" at the time. They also went in a crate for the first time. The last time they rode anywhere the four of them rode in a shoe box

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A very special treat tonight.... my friend Scott Vail, who is an excellent photographer, paid a visit to the puppies this afternoon and we did a photo shoot. Here are the results.... Purple, Yellow, Red, Black Yellow Black Purple Red All pictures in todays post are copyright Scott Vail.

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A new mini-movie of the puppies chasing Mama Aliy around in hopes of getting one last meal at the Milk Bar.... Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!

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No weights on the pups this week, they are all over 10 lbs which is as high as my scale goes. Next week they will get weighed at the vet when I take them in for their shots. Just before taking the pictures tonight they were all playing around in their water bowl and got their heads all wet. All four girls love water, just like their Grandma Kachina who was the only WhiteStar Sammie brave

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Kelly, Ilsa and I left Friday evening for a weekend dog show and got back very late last night. I could not believe how much the puppies changed in just a little over 48 hours! This was the first time I had left them since they were born and it was hard to do but also kind of interesting to be able to see them again with "new eyes". They are, of course, still the worlds cutest puppies! I'll

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MOVIES!!! I pulled out the "old" digital camera today.... it has one capability the "new" camera doesn't... it can take short 5 - 15 second mpeg movies. So CLICK HERE to see the puppies experiencing a bowl of ice cubes for the first time. And just 'cause it was so cute, here's a shot of the pups eating their dinner a little while ago....

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Over a week ago I said Aliy was done nursing. In fact, I thought she had completely quit producing milk over the past week. This morning I was leading the puppies to the ex-pen from the deck. 3 puppies folowed me, one was missing. When I went looking for little Yellow, this is what I found: After a week of seriously avoiding this situation, Aliy seemed happy to let Yellow nurse for about

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Aliy's little Angels spent their 6 week birthday doing pretty much what they do every day... sleeping for several hours than playing like crazy for a half hour or so then starting all over again. Two items of interest for the week.... First in the "EWWWWWWWWW HOW GROSS!!!!" department, Mama Aliy, still trying to provide for her babies, brought them a dead ground squirrel to munch on.

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Sorry for not being better about posting this week.... I was VERY busy at work... and then yesterday my internet connection was down most of the day and into the night. Excuses, excuses.... In any case, the pups continue to grow like weeds.... Red is closing on on 10 lbs! Six week weights will be posted later this evening when I post their birthday pictures. In the meantime, put your thinking

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Yes lots of changes.... The pups are no longer on bedding... they started tearing it up yesterday afternoon so it's gone. They are now eating dry food instead of mush. They are spending most of their days (if it's not raining) outside on the deck. Tomorrow the whelping box will be diassembled and they'll be in an ex-pen. Although they are not climbing out of the box at all (such good puppies

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Already. I can't believe it.

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I woke up this morning and discovered the pups had gone on a rampage during the night. Without going into the rather messy details, suffice it to say that it was again time for a change in the whelping box. Also time for baths. I headed out to the local pet supply store and purchased some Second Nature puppy litter. Brought it home, put it in the litter box, and put the litter box in the

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Look who has an ear up!! It's Yellow! Twice today I noticed Yellow sound asleep with her ears flipped up. Upon waking both times her right ear stayed up briefly. The second time I had time to grab the camera and get this picture. Her mother Aliy had her ears up at a very young age as well, but not quite this young. We'll see how long it takes for the ear to stay up more than a minute or

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These are exciting days for Aliy's little Angels! Those of you checking in on the Aliy-Cam may notice that on occasion you see not Puppies in a Whelping box but instead Deck Dogs. Unless of course they have hidden out of view of the camera...

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Grandma Kachina makes sure her grandaughters are being cared for properly. She approves!

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People keep asking me which one I like best... I don't know.. it changes every day! I think they are all pretty cute but then, I think I'm a little biased :)

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Tomorrow the puppies will be 4 weeks old. It's hard to believe that three of them have already spent nearly half the time they will ever spend with me. This has been a week of exciting happenings... they are now eating puppy mush three times a day although Aliy is still their primary food source. They are drinking water from a bowl. They are reasonably steady on their feet most of the time.

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Yes I am in Wood Chip hell. The pups were just becoming too messy on the blankets. So I filled the whelping box with woodchips. Now I have wood chips everywhere. Really. Everywhere. I even found one in the refrigerator. And it's only been 24 hours. And do you have any idea what happens when you put the ice paks with their FLANNEL covers into a box of woodchips. I discovered that wood

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Leave a "mature" adult male alone with a litter of puppies and some watercolor markers and what happens? In case you can't tell, Red is sporting flames, Black is zebra striped, Yellow has a stripe down her back and Purple (it's hard to see) has race car numbers on her sides. sigh.....

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I am in a class today for work. I have internet access in the class and can access the Aliy-Cam as a spectator for a change. It's a little surreal but kind of fun. And I'm glad I marked the puppies with the colored markers... I can tell them apart on camera! I think it would "bother" me a bit if I could not tell who is who.

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Those of you watching the Aliy-Cam may notice the puppies are sporting colored marks on their backs near their tails. Although on the one hand I don't like that my "pretty white puppies" have colored spots, it's nice to be able to identify them at a glance!

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Happy 3 week birthday little Angels!! To celebrate, the girls polished off a whole plate of puppy mush...

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Not even three weeks old yet and the puppies have had two sets of visitors come all the way from out of state just to see them! Last week my friend Bobbie and her mother-in-law came up from New Mexico and stopped to see the girls on their way to Denver. Today, Mildred and Dave from Phoenix stopped by on their way to Sasketchewan. Mildred and Dave are hoping one of Aliy's little Angels will be

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Finally! Pictures in which the puppies resemble puppies more than hamsters! Hopefully we'll have lots of cute pictures over the next few weeks. This is when it starts to get really fun with these little girls.

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Yellow goes UNDER her ice pack!

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Red uses her sister as a pillow. Black uses the pig rail as a pillow.

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Guess what the pups have? Teeth. All of them have a full mouthful of TEETH. Poor Aliy. I've never had puppies get teeth so quickly. Now that their eyes are finally open and they are walking I figured it would be time to start looking to see if there were any signs of teeth. When I checked the first puppy I was shocked. ALL the teeth were there including very sharp little canines! So...

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Red and Yellow look like they are enjoying their ice packs, don't they?

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And here they are at two weeks old.... What did Aliy do today? This picture looks a lot like the one I posted this morning right? But in between that one and this one, Aliy got a bath!!

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Actually they are anything but boring. I could watch them for hours. But they aren't doing anything EXCITING. I was sure by now eyes would be open. They have all had the corners open for days... I think that first started way back last Thursday, now you can see their eyes at every corner on all 4 girls. But they are not really "open" yet. And a few days ago I reported they were "walking"

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Each evening when I change the bedding in the whelping box I have to put the pups somewhere else safe while the box is being cleaned. For the first few days they went into the box I had used during whelping. They also took their first trip to the vet in that box. Then we moved to a slightly larger box. But it looks to me like we need another new box now.... To the left is the original box.

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We have our first 3 pound puppy! Who else but Red Girl?

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The puppies had their first visitor today! My friend Bobbie came up to Denver with her four adorable puppies and she stoppped by my place so I could see her pups and she could see mine. The pups didn't do much (surprise!) except sleep eat and make noise. The excitement really wore Yellow out... It looks to me like we may have eyes open within the next 24 - 48 hours... Red is very close.

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2 pounds, 9 ounces. I mean REALLY, can they keep growing like this??? Not that I,m complaining, it's great to have big strong healthy puppies, but Black and Red are over 2.5 lbs already! I've never had a puppy hit that before 2 weeks of age. Here.. look for yourself at Kachina's Kids and Boom'rs Babies.

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New Comments! I didn't like the way Blogger handled comments so I switched to Haloscan. This means you no longer have to "log in" to leave a comment. Unfortunatly, it means I lost all the nice comments people have left over the last few weeks :( New Gallery! I created a Gallery of Pictures for the pups. At the end of each week I'll take all the pictures that have been posted here for the

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I can't believe Aliy's little Angels are a week old already! Compare these pics to the ones from a week ago... look how fast they change!! I bet in next weeks "birthday" shots they'll have their eyes open.

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After several days of unhappy puppies each morning I discovered these girls get hot really easily. The room I have the whelping box in gets morning sun. And even though the puppies are protected from the sun, the room does get warm pretty quickly. Not hot, just warm, about 76 degrees or so. Well the pups don't want it above 72 and have been expressing their displeasure loudly and at great

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The puppies got their first nail clip yesterday. Their little nails had gotten so sharp, they felt like little pin pricks, thay were tearing up poor Aliy's tummy. So yesterday afternoon they each got a nail clip. They were so brave, not a peep out of them! I'm sure Aliy is happier. The only dwn side is that without their sharp little nails to dig into the bedding they are getting around a

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The puppies had their dewclaws removed today. Sometimes this can make for a fussy day but these guys took it all in stride. Dewclaws are vestigial 5th toes on the sides of the leg. Most sammie puppies have them, some pups are born with dewclaws on both front and rear legs, these girls had them only on the front paws. The biggest reason for removing dewclaws is one of safety. Some dewclaws

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Aliy and I are disagreeing on the proper way to keep the whelping box neat and tidy. *I* want Aliy to leave the towels I put down where I put them. *Aliy* wants to rearrange them and remove them. The problem with that? The pups are turning grey from crawling over the newspapers which are under the twoels. They are also getting lost in the crumpled up towels. One almost got squished today

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Like Mother , Like Daughter Then: Yellow Girl (Aliy) lies across Mama Kachina's leg - March 2000. Now: Yellow Girl lies across Mama Aliy's leg - June 2004. Daily Routine. Click the pic to see a bigger version. The pups did today pretty much what they will do for the next several weeks. Slept. Ate. Slept. Ate. Slept. Ate. You get the picture. They are actually very active little girls,

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The Girls Yellow Girl     Black Girl Purple Girl     Red Girl See what A Bad Girl Purple is already - refusing to pose for her Birthday photo. The first thing both my husband and I noticed about these pups was that they have ears! I am used to puppies that look like this the first week of their lives, with their ears plastered to their heads like little seals. Not these girls! Details,

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RED GIRL!!! 4 girls. Wow! I am thrilled. Anyone who knows me knows I'd be happier with 4 girls than with 8 boys! Good job Aliy and good job Tiger (who determined the sex). Pictures to come later....

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Another girl (yeah!!) weighing in at 1 lb 0.6 oz! Both Purple and Black have grey pigment on their noses.

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Black Girl was born about 7:00.... 1 lb .02 oz Yellow girl is 1 lb exactly.

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Puppy Number One (Yellow Girl) arrived about 20 minutes ago!

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I think this email from my friend Mary pretty much sums up my day with Aliy so far... Yawn. If the web cam was anymore BORING - Anne sleeping. Anne knitting. Anne eating. Aliy sleeping. Aliy knitting. Aliy eating. Is Kris there with you? The answer to the last part, yes Kris was with me. For hours and hours we sat and stared at Aliy. About 4:00 we took her for a walk. While out we met my

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7am temp: 97.5 Yes, we have a temperature drop. Last night I gave Aliy some ice cream around 8:30. (No, she's not spoiled or anything.) Checked her temp a half hour later, it was at 99.3. Two hour later it was at 99.2. Those were the lowest temps ever at night. And other than back on the 13th, the only time her temp has gotten lower as the day has gone on. At 5 am it was 98 and at 7 am 97.5.

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..... going on here. 7pm temp: 99.7 Aliy is trying to go out to The Hole everytime I let her out in the yard. At this point I'm not sure that is a good idea so I'm monitoring her outside time. Here she is backing out of it after I caught her there this afternoon: Looks pretty much like the other hole picture doesn't it? Actually we may possibly be seeing some progress on the way to puppies

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7am temp: 99.3 sigh.... I had to take the Aliy-Cam down for a while this morning.... I was trying to do some internet research (guess what subject??) and my outbound connection was so sloooooooow because I think all of my allotted connection speed was being used up by people trying to view the Aliy-Cam. Once I unplugged it, things sure speeded up from my end anyway! The way my ISP guys

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1pm temp: 100.1! False alarm? Aliy wants to see me go crazy? Who knows? But her temp is back up again and she seems quite happy to just sleep away the day. A couple people wrote and asked me about her temperature trend....I do not always post temps in messages, but I DO always put them in the temperature chart that is over there on the right sidebar >>>>>>> over there >>>>> that away >>>>>

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Or maybe the early hours of towmorrow. Something is very different about Aliy today. Her eyes have a glazed look to them and she's just seems **different**. Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part. As I said yesterday, I'm ready. I just finished putting the bedding in the box a little while ago. The whelping box is in the only part of the main floor of my house that is not over the basement.

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7am temp: 99.1 (hmmmmm again) Today is my husband's birthday. He has said from the day we did the first breeding that Aliy's pups would be born on his birthday. Why is he so convinced? He says it's because "everyone is born on his birthday." And, in his family, he is right. He has a younger brother, a niece and a cousin or two all born on June 18. So it would be fitting for Aliy to have

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.... even though Aliy doesn't yet seem to be! 7am temp: 99.6 1pm temp: 99.3 (hmmmm......) Whelping equipment is gathered and ready... 1) Ready Box - When a puppy is is born, once it is clean and breathing well, it will have a chance to nurse. But when another puppy begins to make it's arrival, the ones already "on the ground" will be placed in the ready box so that they are out of the way,

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7am temp: 99.4 1pm temp: 100.0 What do these.... ....have to do with Aliy? I discovered Aliy LOVES gum drops. On the other hand she hates to have her temperature taken and runs into her crate everytime I get the thermometer out. So we now have a special routine where I ask her if she wants a gumdrop. She comes out of her crate sniffs the gumdrop so she knows I really have it to give her.

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7am temp: 100.0 1 pm temp: 100.4 7 pm temp: 100.4 The eve of her earliest due date and Aliy is wondering what is going on.... She spent the day quietly, resting mostly, with a few hunting forays into the back yard.

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7pm temp: 100.0 Aliy's whelping box is where Aliy's puppies will be born and where they will spend the first few weeks of their life. Some people use kiddie wading pools as whelping boxes, some people build boxes and some people purchase them. I built the box Aliy will be using four years ago when Kachina had her litter. It is made out of one 4 x 8 sheet of high grade plywood. The wood

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7pm temp: 100.1 Aliy had a busy day. First we went off to the vet where she was xrayed. There were very clearly FOUR PUPPIES on the x-ray! Then we went to the dog wash where ALiy got a pre-whelping bath so she will be clean when her puppies make their appearance into the world. There is a reason few recent pictures have been posted of Aliy here onher blog....she's been spending a lot of

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7 am temp: 99.4 - looks like ALiy is one of those who has a naturally low temp. GOOD TO KNOW! So what's the deal with calculating a due date for the puppies?? Aliy's due dates are June 14 - June 24. Here's how I came up with that. In her book Canine Reproduction author Phyllis Holst says that the gestation period for a dog is 60 days from when fertilization occurs. 85% of all girls whelp

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I've added a link in the sidebar at right to the "Aliy-Cam". Pretty boring stuff for now. Just her whelping box. 7 PM temp: 100.4

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7 AM: 99.8 So whats the deal with taking her temperture? That is how I will have an idea of when the pups are due to arrive. A normal temperature for a dog is around 101-102 degrees. But every dog is different and so I need to establish what is "normal" for Aliy. I'll do that over the next few days by taking her temperature several times during the day. At somepoint in the next few weeks

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Very exciting. I find this to be one of the most amazing parts of the whole birth process. Aliy and I have been spending some quality time each night where she lies quietly and I try to feel a puppy move. Last night I tried for 15 minutes. Nothing. Tonight, within a minute of her lying down I felt it. Several times. I know I'll be spending waaaaayyyyy too much time over the next week just

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Okay, Aliy did not really go shopping, I went shopping for her. And what did she get? 1) A new 10 second digital thermometer 2) A new jar of Petroleum Jelly (see #1). 3) A flannel sheet to be used on the floor of the whelping box. 4) A can of Esbilac Puppy Formula that we hope we never have to use. 5) A syringe to tube feed which we hope we don't have to do. 6) A WEB CAM!!!!! so we will have

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Aliy's milk is in! I've been trying to feel puppies moving around for the last several days but so far haven't found anything. I sure wish I had a made a note on Kachina's puppy site when I first felt her pups moving around, but I didn't.

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Aliy is starting to rapidly expand. I am beginning to think there MUST be more than just two or three pups inside her. But then again when Boom'r was pregnant, she got so big we were sure she had 10 and there were only 6. We'll know more on Friday when I have her x-rayed.

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Nothing major to report.... just a few details about what's going on with Aliy.... I switched her over from regular dog food to puppy food this week. She's now eating Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lover's Soul. She'll stay on that thru the rest of her pregnancy and thru the weaning of the pups. The pups will start on it when they are somewhere around 3 weeks old as well. I also increased the

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There is a hole in my backyard. Okay there are actually many many holes in my backyard, but there is one of particular interest right now. Here is a picture of the hole from a few feet away: Just an ordinary hole right? Look more closely... There is a dog in that hole! Don't believe me? Okay, let's call her.... "Pumpkin, oh Pumpkin, come out come out where ever you are....." I have

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I think Aliy is hungry. Dont' get me wrong, all my girls have always had good appetities, including Aliy. Some are down right obsessive about food (Kelly and Boom'r are the worst!) and some don't care as much as others (Ilsa and Abbey). Aliy has alway seen right in the middle. Not one to miss a meal, but doesn't go out of her way to "find" food. Until now. Last Friday as I was driving to

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It still has a long way to go.... but the NEW WhiteStar Samoyeds website is finally up. I hope to move over a lot of stuff from the old site over the next few weeks/months. There are some missing pictures, hope to get those up inthe next few days. Eventually there will be more pictures of all the dogs, and the WhiteStar links page which was once the most complete on the web, will be updated

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Can you guess what these are pictures of?????? They are Aliy's babies!!!!! YES she IS pregnant. We went into the vet yesterday and instead of doing a blood test I went ahead and had an ultrasound done. There are defintely at least two puppies, we actually saw two at one time on the monitor screen. The vet thinks he saw a third as well. And there may be more hiding that we could not see.

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Finally a picture of my girl! CH WhiteStar's Yukon Quest HIC WS This same picture (only bigger) is also now linked in the sidebar to the right.I also posted links to Pedigrees for both Aliy and Tiger over there. Stay tuned right here for some Really Exciting Pictures (and news!) coming soon!

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Here is a pic of the handsome fellow Aliy has been bred to.... CH Silverplume's Hole in One I've added a permanent link to Tiger's picture in the sidebar to the right. I should have a picture of Aliy later today or tomorrow....

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I just got back from a 3 day dog show in Cortez Colorado and it looks to me like Aliy has gotten fatter in just those few days! Is this a sign she really is pregnant??? She is also acting a little weird. I was sitting on the couch trying to read and she insisted on sitting ON me for about an hour.

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Aliy is my Samoyed. Her full name is CH WhiteStar's Yukon Quest WS HIC but we call her Aliy or AlBear. Aliy was conceived in January 2000 and born March 16, 2000, first in a litter of six. She was named after Aliy Zirkle, the first woman to win the Yukon Quest Sled dog race (tougher than the Iditarod!) in January of 2000. Aliy was bred a few weeks ago and we hope she is expecting puppies in

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