When Lady Goes Slumming

In early September we noticed that our beautiful red Labrador was in heat.  Since we knew of no suitable suitors in our very rural and back woods area we scheduled for her to be fixed following that heat cycle.  She was put on lockdown and only allowed outside for supervised potty breaks.  Apparently all of our hard work was for naught as the lovely lady had already gotten herself into "trouble" in August.  On October 27th our girl gave birth in rather rapid time to 10 black and white puppies.  6 males and 4 females.  She took right to being a mother and required no help.  Unfortunately a week after they were born we lost the littlest male.  I stepped up and started helping feed the other runt of the litter-a female with a black spot on a white chest.   These little chunky bundles will be ready to go to new home Christmss week.  I'm praying we can find good homes for all of them.