Well Thursday night my bitch, Liesl, gave birth to those two tiny boys you see on the left. The birthing was so fast I couldn't believe it. When Josie (our Affenpinscher) gave birth to her last litter, she had the first pup after maybe 40 minutes and the next one didn't come till several hours later. Liesl (a Lowchen) gave birth to both of those boys in about 15 minutes. Our friend was supposed to come over and watch because she is interested im eventually breeding her little girl, so mom was telling her that she would call when it seemed Liesl was getting close. Then, I heard her from the bedroom, "Well Mailisa, you might want to come now, I think she's ready." So I hear that, go back in the bedroom, and sure enough Liesl is pushing. This is her first litter, it's always hard the first time, and that poor little girl screamed as the baby was coming. She pushed him right out though, mom cut the cord and the sack while Liesl ate the placenta. (That grosses me out every time, I have to leave the room.) So then I came back in while mom was weighing the baby and I looked at Liesl only to see that the next baby was crowning. I was like, um mom...the next one is coming. I had called Malisa after the birth of the first one and she said she was on her way and to tell Liesl to hold off on the other one till she got there. Obviously that didn't happen. While I rubbed the first baby and got him dried off, mom helped Liesl birth the second one. So, I called Malisa again and said, well never mind, they're both here. lol She arrived 20 minutes or so later and went in to see them. Liesl is a very good mom, very protective. We don't have names picked out yet, mom likes a roman theme so I've been surfing online for good roman names. The first thought that came to my mind was for the first boy (the one with the white around his neck) and that was to name him Rosewood's Gladiator. (Rosewood is my mom's kennel name) He was Liesl's first to of course it was hard for her and also hes always exploring around the whelping box, getting himself lost, and then crying until one of us goes in and returns him to his mom. lol I don't know what we'd use as a call name though. Another name I found which I liked was Caladus. There is a grafiti if you will on a wall in Pompeii from the roman times that reads, "Caladus, the Thracian, makes all the girls sigh." Caladus was a popular (and I guess attractive) gladiator and yes, that is still on the wall in Pompeii. So I thought that was cute "Rosewood's Caladus...he makes all the girls sigh." That would be a great slogan. lol Then of course I like the name Spartacus...hopefully you all know who he is. If not, do a google search on Spartacus the gladiator and read some of the sites. So we could use other suggestions plus call names for the gladiator boy. Please try to have some intelligent reasoning behind your name, Fido will not be accepted. lol
