October 8, 2008--Pictures of Caramel and her puppies

She had a total of nine puppies, but one of them died. She had them in this little boxed in place under the deck that had a dirt bottom.

Here's one picture of her and her pups before we moved her. She moved her head everytime I snapped a picture, so she looks a little blurry.

I spent all morning building a doghouse. Erick and I had different ideas--I wanted to build one out of scrap wood that we already had, and he wanted to go to town and buy some new materials and make one. I insisted that we had enough wood and that I could do it myself, so he left me alone and I built the doghouse. At the end I did have to come and ask for help, because my arms were so tired out from hammering that I just couldn't quite finish the dog, but even he admitted at the end that it looked better than he thought it would look. Here's a picture of the doghouse I built:

Here's a picture of Abby holding one of the puppies.

We moved her into the doghouse about ten minutes ago, and she seems to like it. I took a couple of pictures of them inside, and I had to use the flash since it was a bit dark in there. This camera is kind of cheap and stuff tends to wash out easily.