WOT: Cats Options

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Why?

[PinetreePorsche]

I breed a litter of Golden Retrievers every year, usually in the spring, so I don't have to clean up the kitchen floor at 2:30 AM every night for about 6 weeks, as I do if it's a winter litter. Amber was due Thursday. But last Monday night, after I went to bed at 11:15, she came in to get me at 2; I thought she needed a bathroom break because of that great sack of puppies hanging there. But when I got down to the kitchen I heard the mewing (yeah, like a kitten for a few weeks), and went to look at her bed-pad. Four pups were already out. Apparently she wanted company/help--I had always been there for all the pups in previous years, and thought I would get the usual signs in the 24 hours before they were coming. But she had gotten the jump on me. An hour later #5 came, followed by the 6th in ten minutes. We had had her x-rayed, so knew that was all (we do that for safety sake, so that one that has died won't get left in there and create infection.) By morning she was acting almost as if nothing had happened--except for staying constantly by them to nurse. They're putting on weight fast, and will be those fluff-balls you see in advertisements in about 3 weeks. And, as contrasted with my two teenagers, these will be through school and out on their own in 2 1/2 weeks. And I get $500 each time one graduates to its new home. The year I bought my very clean 914 for $4100 she had 9 pups-- I told my friends that my dog bought me a nice Porsche. But the best of all is the weeks when they are fuzzy and affectionate (again, better than my teens) and full of fun. And yes, after the second litter, we kept one as a companion for Mom-dog-- they always like to have another to romp and wrestle with. We have a yearly "family" reunion (just last week this time), usually with over a dozen of her grown pups, and it's a hoot. Cats are OK, but I have a fierce allergy to them, so I get my best company from dogs of all ages.