She is 6 ,Penny ,she had 5 pups all together ,the first 4 she pass herself ,but the first to be born was small and she kept pushing it away,it died in the end,but the pup that was stuck was a big one and it died down in the womb,not on the way up,so she had no chance in passing it
So she's not that old then: but I agree with you when you said you'll not breed again from a first time bitch older than 4. It's very tempting when a good bitch has served you well, to breed from them older, but a lot of the time you end up with dead pups and a Caesar. Years ago, one of my bitches had a very s