Treasure's Herding Lesson

Ms. Treasure is getting so much great instruction!  She's entered at a herding trial in two weeks and is coming along nicely, according to her instructor/handler Susan!

First she has to gather the sheepies!

Get them all together and to Susan!

The idea is to SMOOTHLY move the sheep.

At the end, she got to move the mama and lambies out into the big field.

And did so nicely! Good job, Treasure!

Downward Facing Dog

Sooo, Treasure is doing yoga to (1) either relax her enough to go back to sleep, or (2) move these puppies along!  I found her doing the downward facing dog this morning . . . sigh . . . I've gone out and fed the sheep and the pony, had a cup of coffee.  Think I'll have another cup and either wake up or go back to bed.  The wretch--err, I mean, sweet Treasure appears to be resting comfortably right now.

Soon is a relative term, Treasure says!

Okay!  I watched Treasure on and off all day on the spy cam I installed--she slept a lot--wandered around the box some--panted a LOT!  So now it's coming on 9 p.m.   We just went out for another potty break and I had to tell Treasure yet again, NO, you are NOT having your babies behind the oil tank in the side yard!!!  She decided she needs a break from the whelping box and will watch the last hour of Sing-Off with me on the couch.  (I'm thinkin' she'll get "busy" about 3 a.m.--or conceivably, not until 6 a.m. when I'm dropping from exhaustion!)

It's gonna be soon!

Okay!  Treasure's temperature dropped sometime in the night to about 98.4.  What that signifies is that within 24 hours of the drop, she will be having the babies!!!  I have to go into work this morning to organize my desk and get projects handed off, but I'm putting Treasure in the whelping box and shutting her in there.  We're in the whelping room this morning and she's currently hurling up what breakfast she ate a bit earlier.  (lovely)  Gotta go clean stuff up (ick).  Okay that lovely job is done.  Guess I better get ready for work!  More later!!!

Treasure's a bit uncomfortable!

So, Treas and I have been hanging out in the whelping room--she's still not convinced she likes what I've done to it--stripped out all the interesting places to hide things, for instance, laid a nice gray tarp over the hardwood floor and added some kind of box, in which I insist she will have her babies and which she so far refuses to get into!  She had a nice breakfast of boneless pork ribs, was begging for my cooked scraps for an early lunch so I gave her another rib--which she is carrying around looking for a good storage place in case I never feed her again (a thing she evidently worries about!).  She's been panting a lot and is acting uncomfortable, but her temperature was 100.8 this morning, so there shouldn't be any puppy surprises today.

Very pregnant Treasure