Sunday, June 28, 2009

Our houseguest!

We are breeding Moe this week, to our friend's bulldog Elmer. He is brindle and white, so they should have a colorful array of babies , hopefully. Moe's mom was fawn and white and her dad was brindle and white; her siblings and her came out fawn and white and red and white...no brindle. It should be fun to see what color babies we might end up with. Everyone pray that we have a good experience with this, please.

I've been doing my research and I feel good about the vet that we found to care for Moe throughout the pregnancy. We are taking her to Dr. Kirk Esmond at Josey Ranch Pet Hospital in Carrollton. So far, he and his staff have been very helpful and made us feel very comfortable.

With bulldogs it's quite an extensive process to impregnate the female and get the babies on the ground. Tomorrow we are doing our first round of Artificial Insemination (AI), then we will do another round on Wednesday. To have the puppies, Moe will have to have a C-section. This is very common with English Bulldogs, approximately 95% of all pregnancies are delivered via C-section, and the vet we are using is extremely experienced with animal reproduction and performing C-sections.

So, he is staying at our house for a few days so that we can take him to the vet to make some babies!!! We are so excited to try to have a baby Moe Moe! Won't they make pretty babies?!


1 comment:

Bug said...

AAAWWWWW, he is SO CUTE!!!! I'm praying for it to work!!!! We want a puppy you know???