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Lido, Day 4
Lido, Day 4
MaryO


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Collection: 31 Day 2012 Retrospective
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: May 19, 2012
Aperture: 8.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 11, 2012

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 On May 15, all my years of studying Irish Wolfhounds culminated in the birth of my very first litter. 7 healthy pups; one stillborn. Sage was a great mom and whelped easily and everyone started gaining weight immediately.

On May 17 two of the puppies died within a few hours, and on May 18 another one died. Just about killed me. I had an experienced breeder who is a vet tech here to help with the whelping and she was blindsided, too. We did necropsies and they had gone septic. Could have picked up infections while being born ... we'll never know the for sure. Nor do we know why the other 4 survived.

By the time of this shot, I had smacked myself into focussing on what I had instead of what I had lost, and got the camera out as often as possible. Many of the early pictures are snapshotty, but very precious to me. The quality of the puppy images will improve over the next few days :-)

I know this is Lido because I had little collars of colored rickrack for the pups so I could tell them apart at a glance. As newborns they can look remarkably similar from above. Lido weighed just over a pound at birth and is still here, napping as I type. Um, he's bigger now. A LOT bigger ;-)

Oh, and the naming scheme for this litter was "One," so Lido is One for the Road (from the Boz Scaggs song The Lido Shuffle) and Millie, my other keeper pup, is One in a Million. The pups who went to other homes were Bonnie (One Day at a Time) and Corrigan (One Wrong Turn for a big kink in his tail; his new family renamed him Rooney).

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Nikon D300s
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/13/2012 10:48:18 PM
Oh so sorry to hear you had such a rough time. I would have been torn up also. My little girl only had 3 shih tzu pups and luckily they all survived. I would have been devastated if I lost any. I am an emotional person. But you had the right attitude in the end. Great portrait of a cute little pup.
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Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 12/12/2012 04:02:30 PM
A sad story about the losses...

But this is a sweet image...i am looking forward to how much they have grown!
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Canon EOS-5DS R
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 12/12/2012 12:04:12 AM
Magic stuff, sorry for the losses which makes the gains that much sweeter. And how cute!
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Olympus 45mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko Digital
 12/11/2012 11:47:40 PM
Love puppies and can't wait to see more!

Sorry to hear that you had lost some. That had to be hard. But this one hear looks like it was worth it to soldier one. What a sweet sleepy face!
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 12/11/2012 07:35:47 PM
It is so hard to believe they get so big, and so fast! Sweet shot of this little guy.
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Sony DSLR-A580
Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED
 12/11/2012 10:59:08 AM
So hard to see detail because of the black but I stood up and looked down at my monitor and oh, my, what a cutie. Sorry about the others but it's clear that you get much joy from your "keepers".
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Canon EOS-D60
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 12/11/2012 09:32:56 AM
That's just the cutest little thing! I look forward to seeing her grow!

You must have been heartbroken over the loss of the other pups. I'm so sorry.
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