Babies on the way

Today was another first for Black Diamond Dalmatians ~ at 4:00pm this afternoon we did a pregnancy ultrasound on Jazz. It has been 30 days since Jazz was surgically implanted, which is the date the reproductive specialist in Grass Valley, CA told us we should have her checked for pregnancy status.  The good news is that Jazz is pregnant and the vet definitely saw at least 3 puppies. The bad news is that our Ortho/Trama vet isn't very skilled with the ultrasound machine and couldn't give us a rough count of puppies, nor could he find the heart beat on the 3 pups that were obvious. So it looks like we'll still need to do an x-ray a week before she is due to get a better head count. At least now I'll be able to convince Adrian to begin construction on a new puppy box! :)

Weekend trip

This weekend Jazz and I took a little drive, down to Grass Valley California (just across the state line from Reno). We decided to breed Jazz one last time (she's 6 yrs old now). The male we have chosen is traveling the nation pursuing his show career, so for the first time at Black Diamond Dals we did a Surgical Implant A.I.  Seeing we live in the boonies, we had to drive to a location that has a reproductive specialist, so we decided to drive down to California to the one the male dog's owner has used several times with great success. Jazz and I drove down on Friday, Saturday morning she had surgery, we then got back in the van and drove home, arriving at 3:30am Sunday morning (thanks to the weather and roads). This photo was in Southern Oregon on Friday, click on the photo so it gets bigger and you'll see some of the approximately 200 antelope that were in this location (Jazz is in the lower right hand side of the photo).