Who are we? (Self-portraits of 3 female beagle puppies)

Emily Doo

I'm probably the youngest of the litter. I can't really tell and my mom doesn't know either (she was unconscious when we were born). What I do know is that my mom loves us all, and tries to feed us all at one go. Sometimes, it's difficult to do that, so we take turns to eat.


Playing is my favorite past time. I love to explore, and have probably been farther than my siblings. I don't think they are as adventurous as me, although I've tried to get them to come along. Lately, I've been able to walk faster and I even skip around sometimes. I've even learnt the play position, and gotten one of the large dogs around the house (I think her name is Murfee) to play. She adores us too, although she's not our mom.

Penny Doo



I look like Emily, have almost the same markings, and love to play just like her. Nevertheless, I don't venture as far away as Emily, but stay close to my other siblings during play time. I love to wrestle with Emily, and we are probably the most active of the pack. Pick me up and I'll wriggle round and round. In terms of size, I'm slightly larger and longer than Emily, as I probably eat more than her.




Claire Doo

I love to EAT! I'm the first to the bowl and the last to leave! Feel my stomach after dinner and you'll see that I'm so full. I never seem to get enough, and try my best to get all I can. As compared to my sisters, I have a white stripe on my leg (something they don't have). I look much like them in terms of facial features, except that I'm bigger and fatter.

6 Adorable Beagle Puppies!

17th May 2007 - These 6 beagle puppies were born through Ceasarian section. Tobie Doo, our 5 year old Beagle weighing only 9 kg before being pregnant was considered a small Beagle to be carrying 6 pups. Thus, this was really a surprise to us! Moreover, this was already her 65th day of pregnancy, and she was already late. (The expected gestation period for dogs is 63 days).

Throughout the night of the 16th, we waited the entire night for Tobie to go into labour. After just a mere whine and squeak at about 10 pm at night, probably signaling the start of the contractions, nothing happened till the next morning. Her water bag broke about 11 am the next day, and after several hours of waiting without any progress, we finally took her in to the vet.

After an hour of surgery, we were delighted when the 6 puppies were presented to us in a box, collectively making high-pitched whines. Amidst fears that Tobie would not recognize her own pups, she surprised us once again when she lovingly let them suckle milk, even though she was still in pain from surgery. She placed her paws as much as she could on them, and pulled them close to her to protect them from the cold. Truly, we never expected Tobie, our mischievous Beagle to be motherly. In our eyes, she has always been our puppy friend.

Throughout the next two weeks, Tobie has been relatively protective over her puppies, although she has never been fierce with us. We were allowed to pick her puppies out, but she always kept a watchful eye. If we held on too long (like over 2 minutes) , she would come over and grab them back with from us. She could hardly carry them in her mouth, but she tried nevertheless.

I still remember the first week when she was hardly out of the puppy pen, a box we made for her, feeding them every few hours. As the newborn beagle puppies hardly whined, we knew that Tobie had done a good job being their mother.

Read my new posts, as I relate the different personalities of this litter of beagle puppies!