Purdie has babies! The first little girl arrived at 5.45pm yesterday, by 9pm she had 4 sisters. Then things started to slow down by 10.30 Purdie was quite relaxed and happily feeding her new arrivals- a little too relaxed as her shape indicated she was a long way from finished. I decided to take her into the garden to see if this would help get things moving again and sure enough we had another little girl at 11pm. We got her up again at 1am and this time she almost immediately produced a little boy- still in the garden! We then had a very long wait, decided a call to the vets for advice was in order but unfortunately their phones weren't diverting to the emergency service. As Purdie was not straining we decided to wait and see how things went, She popped out another boy at 4:55am. The last puppy, another girl, finally made her appearance at 6:40am. I am pleased to report that both Purdie and her 9 babies are doing well.