Piper began whelping at 3:35 am.

Whew, it has been a long night of labor but she is chugging along now. The first three were born in a half hour! Then two more in another half hour.  Now that the sun is up, Piper has delivered eight (make that TEN) pups so far - 6 apricots and 4 blacks. Six of them are males and four are females. Happily, both colors are also in both genders.  :+)

I PRAY Piper is done with 10 gorgeous pups! She ate a pile of raw chicken necks, along with all the placentas and vanilla ice cream for dessert. She is happy, content, full and so are her pups.

A proud momma!

Piper has wrapped her babies in black furry love! 

It is quite the variation in the apricots from cream to almost red!