12/29/2025
Day 10. I skipped Day 9 bc I didn't have a new photo to share, and there was no update. Enjoy her video from earlier today where she's looking like an Impatien seed pod that's about to burst. Luckily, her cough has stopped.
Let's talk for a minute about the fact that she's been with us for 10 days now and is STILL pregnant. Let's talk about why I didn't spay/abort her. At the time that the shelter put out the plea to get her out it seemed she was full term and due any moment. In fact, the 4 of us that comprised her transport train from shelter to foster all were worried she would deliver en route. But here we are 10 days later, no puppies and clearly not as close as she seemed. Perhaps if there weren't holidays to navigate around which limits access to affordable options, maybe getting her spayed/aborted would have been an option. But that wasn't the case. I was also worried about doing that procedure so close to her due date bc there are risks involved the later she has the surgery.
There are other services I would have loved to do, like X-ray to get a rough puppy count by the mobile vet, but she's not available until Jan. 4, which I think will be too late. The local clinic suggested taking her to the ER to get an X-ray sooner, but that's a whole other budget and level of stress for Bonnie. I don't have a crystal ball to know how far along she is exactly. I don't have vets at my disposal. I have to work with what I have.
Right now I have a very pregnant dog who is healthy, and looks like she'll deliver this coming week. I'm going to focus on that, and not the nagging in my ear that hears people saying I had time to spay/abort. I'm excited to see the puppies, I'm excited to share them with their forever families who want to experience raising a puppy bc there's nothing quite like it. I want kids to experience growing up with a puppy, like I did and like my kids did, which will implant a love of dogs in their hearts forever. Puppies do not compete against my adult dogs for homes; the people that adopt adult dogs don't want a puppy, and vice versa.
So for today, Day 10, enjoy our little Impatien and wait to see when she pops 🩷
