Not good news on the puppy front….it looks like she’s absorbed. Everyone agrees she definitely was pregnant but nothing doing now! I suppose because it’s always looked like she was only carrying one – or maybe two – puppies the margin for error was very small, if you see what I mean – a bit like a large proportion of human pregnancies start off as twins I bet a fair few dog pregnancies start off with 1 or 2 more puppies than are actually delivered.

It was pretty much confirmed yesterday afternoon when she was in her box and this terrible smell suddenly hit me. Upon investigation she’d pooed in her box but as well as being a pretty much normal consistency poo it was all mucus and horrid looking stuff as well.

I took her down to the vets this morning for a check up and the vet doesn’t think there’s anything left in there and just keep an eye on her for a bit.

To say I’m devastated is an understatement….taken me a bit to get my head around it – going from a certain pregnancy to nothing is so hard. Just seems so unfair when there are so many “pet” bitches that get caught by accident and then go on to have a healthy litter, then the well planned ones end like this!

I suppose not so long in the scale of things but I’ve been waiting a year for this mating and I was so looking forward to having a new puppy to bring out just after Crufts next year.

I’m just totally emotionally and physically drained from it all. Seems like everything I touch turns to dust. Doesn’t matter what I do, it always goes wrong! As a family I’m sure we’re cursed 😛