Where it all began

 Heres Bliss getting used to the whelping box, or rather, heres Bliss tucking into a juicy marrowbone

 inside the whelping box that yours truly spent several hours sorting out and assembling. The box is looking a bit battered after 4 litters but there is something nice, circle of life type thing with Bliss about to give birth in the box

 that she was born in back in 2009.

We still don't know where Elf is going to have her pups, a suggestion that bunk bed type whelping box was considered briefly but abandoned on the grounds of health and safety.