Help - a Lovely but heavily pregnant Lurcher turned up at my door today

[HoundoftheBaskervilles]

I know it's late & I know there's a thread for pointy hound lovers, but I seem to have acquired a heavily pregnant Lurcher, she was lurking round my house all day - very rural no near neighbours, every time I looked out the door she was there, very underfed but sweet & extremely sociable, after about three hours I crumbled & fed her, at which point I noticed she was HEAVILY pregnant & rather skinny.

I've taken her to the Vets', no chip, no report, so she's come back here, she had a show of mucus at the vets' and has been intermittently been panting very heavily, I've phoned the vet again (who luckily are personal friends) who told me how to do an internal, couldn't feel anything yet, so I guess it's just a waiting game.

I've had dogs in the past, but DOGS, never bitches & I've never whelped a pup in me life.

Help & hand-holds would be lovely.

I'm not into dogs at all either, but am gripped by this thread!

How do you pronounce Mabli?

Come on Mabli

Waiting for news and photos ... good luck Mabli

Marking place! So exciting

Sorry for the lack of updates, DH worked from home all day, so I went to bed & slept, as did Mab, no pups as yet, been out for a little walk, lots of licking going on but nothing else to report unfortunately.

Have ordered a whelping pen from Amazon, should be here tomorrow, so we'll see which comes first.

& to the PP that said I had a rather appropriate nn, I have NC'd for this as it does make me rather identifiable!

Anyway, sorry for the rather uneventful update, my brain is full of cotton wool after a sleepless night (I think I overdosed on tea too).

Hopefully have some news soon.

Looking forward to seeing the puppy pictures Mabli is very lucky to have found you

Ahh lovely thread. Glad she found a lovely safe place full of suckers caring owners. They know, I tell ya!

Looking forward to puppy pics!

Looking forward to hearing news soon. I wonder how many there will be?

We could run a little sweep on how many pups. I'm going for six.

Marking my place

Lovely thread.

Love little baby pups.

in anticipation of baby fluffies.

What a lucky dog to have you care for her so lovingly .
I reckon 5 pups . Waiting with you all for the updates .so lovely .

Well done! Her and her puppies will cost you a fortune

Have you ordered puppy formula and glucose? They'll help see her through labour. And get milk production underway.

You probably know about the temp drop before puppies arrive? It at least gives a heads up about what's going to happen. And it's bound to be at night! It always is.

How exciting! Good luck, I'm so glad she found you.

I know it's a bit stressful for you but I kind of hope she hangs on till tomorrow night and gives you a chance to be prepared and get some calories in to the poor thing. Great thread - good luck!

How exciting!!!! and maybe

Good luck with 'Queen Mab'. Great name, and also perhaps short for Mabinogion for your dh?

She is very lucky to have found you, poor thing. And a sensible thing, too, to have got out of the storm last night.

Have pm'd you.

Dishwasherdogs it's pronounced Mab-Lee

placemarking!!

What a privilege to have been chosen .

Nothing like this ever happens to me and I'd absolutely love it to!

Hope there's a little boy in there for me...

Came on especially to find this thread so I'm place marking for future updates!

Hope Mabli sails through the birth and that you have some lovely bundles to coo over very soon.

What a lovely person you are, and how lucky for Mabli that she found you

Dylan Thomas had a dog called Mabli and you can see her grave at the boat house in Laughrne - I've always thought it was the perfect dog name

Shameless place marking here.

The weather's filthy here; so glad she's safe on a night like this.