Our Daisy is expecting puppies! I estimate their birthday to be about Jan 15th! This is a huge surprise as Daisy has never been interested, to say the least, in mating.  Keeping a daughter from her was always my goal. This required a lot of human intervention! So when I was blessed with my Dixie III, I was over the moon! She is fourth generation from my very first Cocker Spaniel, Dixie.

I wasn’t going to try and breed Daisy again. I thought she would just retire. Daisy had other ideas! When Daisy met Georgie and she was totally taken with him. I guess she had a change of heart! With no “help” from anyone, they mated. Even now that her heat is over she is still teasing him, they run all around the farm together, chasing each other.

As Daisy is a mature mother my Vet and I will be keeping a very close watch on her. Hopefully everything goes well and we have healthy babies. I always worry, but Daisy is doing great and she is a very good mother.