Tahzi and her pregnancy, last trimester. Well, she is definitely pregnant! We did do an ultrasound at 30 days, but all it did was tell us she was pregnant. Though she wasn’t showing yet, we already knew she was. Her personality has changed, starting in the first week. She became more clingy, and checked in with me more often. Our kids (the Corgis), generally have full run of the yard where they can go roll in gross things, eat even worse things, and their ability to go between Laura and I without limitations. She started sleeping with me again, which she doesn’t generally do because she runs hot most of the time.

Now that we are so close, she has taken to sleeping in a small hole on the wall side of the bed. It is private and easy to keep others out of. She has not yet begun nesting, but I hope I have the whelping box finished before she does. Yikes!

We had planned to do x-rays a week before delivery to try to get a count, and more importantly, make sure everyone is a good size to pass through the pelvis easily. I do not anticipate a problem here, but I like to be prepared if there is. But we ran into a snag.

Natahzi is pretty aloof with strangers at the best of times, and this is very much a stressful time. She will hide behind us, or plain disappear if someone comes over. She does not come for sniffs or pets to any stranger. It isn’t because she was abused or anything, its just her nature. So handing her off to a stranger vet tech to be drug off for x-rays was detrimental to our plan.

It used to be in the ‘good ole days’, that we could go back to the x-ray room and hold the dog ourselves. My kids are generally calm enough with me handling them to get an OFA x-ray without tranquilizing them. Laura and I used to know where everything was located in the clinic, from IVs to sutures, we were always helping with surgeries and standard care. I have attended MANY surgeries as a tech, and even Laura has helped with an emergency cesarian over one Thanksgiving Day.

I used to be a vet tech long ago. I know how to do what is needed as good or better than any “nurse” they have now. Can you guess this is a real sore spot for me? Yep, your right. But I will stop there.

The point is that we canceled our appointment we had made with our clinic that we have been going to since 1995 because of their “you can’t go in the back with your kid” attitude. Instead, we called someone else that will let us hold Tahzi’s paw while she gets x rayed. That appt is on the 20^th of May.