Shadow has reached the stage of her pregnancy where she does not want to sleep alone. She always gets very clingy when her due date is approaching. She is too big to clamber up onto my Mistress’s bed, but my new basket is very large…and cosy. I went to sleep, minding my own business and woke to find Shadow curled up with me. To be fair, I didn’t mind too much. It is the least I can do to help. My Mistress checked back to last year to see when it was that Shadow started refusing food. It was funny when it happened the first time my Mistress was really worried that she was ill. Then she read lots of things about dogs and pregnancy and found it was perfectly normal. Anyway, on Thursday Shadow ate as much as she could find. She ate probably 3 ½ to 4 times the amount she would normally eat in a day. She was just and eating machine. Then Friday she didn’t want anything. To be honest after a binge like that I rarely want anything, but that’s not the point. Last year she refused food on the 14th and gave birth on the 19th. This year she has started refusing food on the 20th which would mean if she follows the same pattern she will give birth on the 25th! My Master says he’s known all along that it will be Christmas Day – he says it’s the ‘Rosemary factor’ and things like that always happen to my Mistress. It’s a bit like a butterfly flapping in one part of the world creating a hurricane somewhere else – she is her very own little centre of chaos. More to the point, she’s our very own centre of chaos! Looking on the bright side, at least you won’t all be at work so if things do happen on that day there will be nothing to stop you checking in regularly to see how things are progressing.
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