Who Me?

Does the face in this picture look guilty?

It should. Miss Mandy let Boots have his way with her, unless this is a false pregnancy, which I am desperately hoping for. My husband is laughing derisively at my optimism.

Actually my face should be in the picture looking guilty. But then I would have to post a photo of myself. Yikes!

I am not sure when the conception occured. Maybe it happened before I knew she was in heat. Maybe it happened the time SJ let Boots in the yard with her and I was unaware. Boots DID come inside jumping up and down like he'd been in a Viagra commercial. Or maybe it happened when I thought she was out of receptive mode and I let them together like a BIG FAT IDIOT.

I was laughing because Mandy kept running away from Boots. Now I know that she wasn't running away. She was saying, "Let's hide around the corner so the grown-ups won't catch us humping."

Apparently the only difference between dogs and teen-agers is the gestation period.

Boots keeps sniffing at her. Either she smells different because she is pregnant or he's waiting for another chance to get her that way.

She is less than a year-old and shouldn't have been bred. I ordered a book on whelping. It covers all the many millions of things that can go wrong. Oy. It's fortunate the emergency vet is only five minutes away.

The book also listed signs the male dog gives out when the female was in heat. Not once did they mention the eyes bugging halfway out of the head look that Boots displayed the whole time. Bostons have bug eyes anyway, but he looked like his collar was about twelve sizes too tight.

So if we get puppies, and if they make it, I will post pics.

For now we only have one swiftly expanding female Boston and one male Boston who is waiting for the chance to play those Barry White tunes again.