Bernards babies

 Well, they were a bit later than expected and numbers are not what her figure indicated, but Bernard has 2 beautiful kittens. She went into labour in the early hours this morning, the 1st kitten, a red, was born at about 4:45, the 2nd, a black, was born shortly afterwards but was unfortunately stillborn. The 3rd kitten, another black, arrived at around 6am and Bernard immediately settled and showed no signs of further pushing, but because of her size I was pretty sure there were more to come. I gave her about 4 hours (would have not waited as long had she been actively pushing or in any sort of distress) then phoned my vets who advised I pop her in for a check. They agreed that she certainly looked like she wasn't done, but a couple of quick xrays (she was such a good girl, didn't need any sedative) showed that she is in fact in serious need of weight watchers!

A couple of quick pictures, I will take better photos in a few days when Bernard has had a chance to recover from giving birth/visiting vets. They are huge strong kittens and both are suckling well :) 

Waiting game

 I am delighted to announce that Florence is definitely pregnant. She's not huge so I think it may be quite a small litter, but we won't know that for a few more weeks :) 

Bernard on the other hand is huge and is looking particularly glamorous 😂 , her kittens are due any time now, so watch this space for updates!

Not much doubt this time

 Bernard is now 7 weeks pregnant, she looks like she has several buns in the oven :) 

Florin has been mated so we are now waiting to see. 

The dogs have been spoilt for walks this month. I have found several extensions to our regular walk so we have averaged 6/7 miles a day and have also managed several walks that have been 8- 12 miles long. At long last the stay local restrictions have been lifted so we were able to meet with a friend for a beach walk on Monday, it was so good to get on the sand again. All the dogs had a blast and I had ice cream so everybody was happy :) 

On a different walk we met up with a friend who was walking a great dane puppy, she is always being asked where its saddle is, so when we passed this cart on the old granite tramway we couldn't resist setting up a photo of the dane pulling the poodles :)