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  • I believe so Robyn. She had them today-2 red boys, 1 red girl, and 1 tri girl. Here are pics'

    http://s540.photobucket.com/albums/gg329/shadow_brat/

    Sorry, didn't have time to post them as I have to go to work, but I will later. And I will give more detailed description as well.

    Arlene

  • congrats to Sugar and Arlene (and Robyn as co-breeder), Looks like by the birth times she had a pretty easy time of it…. all done in a little more then a hour!!!!

  • Congrats! I love 4 puppy litters.

    Here are the individual pics of the pups while Arlene is working.

    Tri Girl

    Red Girl

    Red Boy 1

    Red Boy 2

  • Congrats! What a nice color-balanced litter :)

  • Yes, my favorite number too, 4 pups…

    There is a breeder on the East Coast who's bitch just had 10, yes I said 10... Basenji puppies.... DOUBLE AND TRIPLE YIKES!!!!!

  • Congratulations!! Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

  • Woohoo! happy dance What a lovely litter. I can't wait to watch them grow!

  • Congrats on the beautiful pups!

  • Congratulations, they look so sweet… born innocent! This too shall pass, LOL, soon they will be cute little beasties and we will still love them anyways!!!

  • Congrats Arlene!!! Glad the waiting is finally over and everyone can relax. Enjoy them now while they're "easy". lol And don't forget to share lots of pics!

  • Congrats!!! Beautiful pups!!! I love the boy! :D

  • Congratulations!!!!! Your babies are beautiful!

    Pat

  • Thank you everyone. Thank you Lisa for posting the pics, along with my roadkill pics! Aren't they lovely? So here's how it went.

    She started at about 10:50 am with the water, it took her about 15 min to pass it through the canal, and she did break it herself (good girl). I was on tenterhooks as I hadn't done this in about 20 years or so. Sue got there just as the action was starting. Tri girl #1, 8 oz, was very tight. Sugar thrashed a bit, tried to bite (typical, it hurts), but once we got a hand on the puppy and got it over the belly she was okay (all were feet first). While we were cleaning up #1, she was in the box having #2 red girl, 8 oz. then she took a little rest, the puppies nursed a bit, and then we returned to having more puppies. #3 red boy, 9 oz, took a little bit more from her, and then #4 red boy 8 oz. was the final. It went pretty quick. After we tied the cord on the one boy, she went back and chewed it a little closer, should be okay though. She's definitely a cleaner. She pretty much stays with them in the whelping box. They all seem to be nicely marked, but one #4 has a small dot of colour inside his white collar.

  • The most amazing thing that I find with the white, is that it stays the same size… so when you think that you have a blaze on the face... turns out to be nothing but a thin strip or nothing at all.... same with the collar.....

    So that "dot" inside the white collar will get bigger...ggg

  • @nomrbddgs:

    They all seem to be nicely marked, but one #4 has a small dot of colour inside his white collar.

    There are lots of basenjis with spots of color in their collars. Most owners find them endearing. Arubmec's Sweet Spot got his name because of the spot in his collar. Nicky has a large spot of color in his collar, we call it his Georgia Peach.

    I thought the "road kill" pictures were cute.

  • I really do like them all. The markings are nice on all of them, pretty uniform for the most part. It will be hard deciding which one to keep. I know the tri girl is gone, but I have some others that wanted a tri as well. I know I wanted a red, but now I don't know boy or girl! His spot is pretty big now in comparison to his size, so I'm not sure if it will get bigger or the white will overtake most of it. The have some pretty interesting faces as well. At the end of the week, I will post pics of them and their faces too.

  • The white stays the same size, the colored spot will get bigger.

  • Congratulations! The wait was worth it!

    Since the tri girl is spoken for, I think my next choice would be the red girl, or maybe the #3 boy… oh, heck, keep them all!!

    Terry

  • Congratulations to your litter well worth waiting for:D
    Aaah which one to choose???Well wait til they?re atleast 8-9 weeks and forget about the markings it?s their anatomy,movement and mentality that will be the most important factors.If their markings aren?t totally of then they are insignificant although I prefer if the white doesn?t go to high on their backleg?s as it gives an illusion of having a long hock( not sure if it?s the correct term) as it should be set quite low but other then that a good judge should disregard markings apart from mismarkings that is.
    Anyway good luck i?m sure that in the end you will make the right choice;)

  • @Terry:

    Congratulations! The wait was worth it!

    Since the tri girl is spoken for, I think my next choice would be the red girl, or maybe the #3 boy… oh, heck, keep them all!!

    Terry

    Mmmm, yeah. That's what the girl that lives with me said. Keep them all. I'm not sure which one I will choose. Judges up here tend to look at certain things and not others which I feel would be important-such as movement over colour. I've been to the back of the bus more times because of colour or faces. The one has a very dark mask, which I don't care for personally. I know of at least 3 judges who would pick placement of colour, including the spot, over movement. It will be between the one red girl and the one red boy without the mask, unless the other turns out better. I just don't know yet. I do have a household of girls though as will. I'll be evaluating as best I can as we go along. If I really like one overall, then colour will be disregarded, but right now, all I can look at is colour. Ahh well, I have lots of time to decide. Maybe I will keep them all! Hah, not likely!

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