Yes they are adorable and yes, you are right about the colour. The male
chocolate is a darker chocolate colour than his sisters. Might be a new
strain for breeding purposes. Heaven forbid I have to start looking at
hybrids and genetics!

I can certainly understand why you gave up breeding. I am paranoid about
Baci sleeping on one.
~John

"tennis maynard" wrote in message
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John Varigos wrote:
Puppy sitting!

Our chocolate Labrador, Baci, had a litter of 6 pups (4 chocolate and 2
black) last Monday night and they have been keeping us busy ever since
(see pics on ABPO). It was quite a traumatic evening as the first one was
born in the back seat of the car outside the vet's surgery, the next one
came about 40 minutes later at home but after a wait of another two hours
with no further births we had to take her in for an emergency Caesar.
Found that Baci had a ruptured uterus and one of the pups had blocked the
birth canal and had died blocking the birth of the other ones. Another
was deformed and didn't make it but we managed to save the other four.
Baci is now stitched up and doing fine.

Ever since it has been a case of watching the pups eat and sleep
continuously all day. They have doubled their weight in 5 days!

Unfortunately the orchid collection is being neglected.

~John
The puppies are beautiful! I just love puppies. Used to breed Shar-Pei
puppies. Sorry you lost some; that's why I quit - it was just too hard to
lose a puppy. One of the chocolates looks consistently darker than the
others - is is a trick of the light or is it really darker?