I saw the strangest thing at the clinic today. A tiny little Chihuahua named Beauty came in because her belly was so full that it looked like she'd swallowed a ball.  I guess she'd just eaten too much because Sweet Sally, and my folks kept looking at the black and white pictures talking about all the little bones they could see.  I never get to eat real bones. Sometimes mother gets me rawhide bones to chew on, which are terrific by the way, but the smell of those chicken bones my folks get, now that's something I would dive into a garbage can for.

Anyway, smelly goo started to come out of Beauty's back end and she was pushing and pushing but nothing was coming out.  So my mom and Vocal Vonnie went to work placing tubes and removing hair so that Beauty could sleep and go into the no-awake-dogs-allowed room.  But what happened next was what I will never forget;  mother took out the largest balloon from Beauty's belly that I'd ever seen. 

 And just when I'd thought I'd seen everything, out of the balloon came mice.  At first I couldn't understand how Beauty could swallow whole mice and they still be alive. 

 But as I was struggling to understand everything that I was seeing and smelling and hearing, Bea woke up out of her aftersnack nap and sprung to attention. Her ears were moving, her nose was twitching and she kept licking her lips.  I'd seen her act like that a few times before, and always when newborn baby dogs were around.

Ok so it took me a few minutes to figure it all out (maybe I need to spend less time with Brawny Brandon) Beauty had puppies today; three adorable little puppies that sure sounded healthy by the way they were screaming.  Bea says she always pushed her puppies out the normal way, but that she had 14 sisters that had to go to sleep to get the puppies out.  So Beauty had a happy ending after all, if going home with three screaming kids is happy.  Bea says she doesn't miss it one little bit, but judging by the way she held me down to clean my ears I sensed that part of her wished she still had puppies to clean.