Monday 19 January 2009

A busy weekend at home...

Had another busy weekend with one thing and another. Tania came over from Belgium to collect her new puppy from Norman, 'Hummer' is the chocolate and white boy from Oz and Brackens litter.
Archie, Hummer and Drift...3 naughty boys!!

(I'll add some stacked pics of these later)
This is Norman's youngster bred by my friend Laura Cunningham up in Scotland, CorrieDhu Bute

a very gentle and affectionate boy.

Tania also took Sea home with her (very sad face)...very hard to see him go after he has settled in here so well but I'm looking forward to seeing him again at the European Flyball Championships in May.

We also went to Batleys to pick up some more puppy food but ended up spending a fortune on a load of new toys (as usual!), at least the toy box has been replenished after half of their Christmas toys have already been destroyed! I was very careful choosing things that aren't so easy to puncture/shred/disembowl and the new 'oinky' pig is only allowed out for supervised play! lol I'm most impressed with a couple of 'wiggly giggly' minty dental dumbells, they make a fun noise but are sturdy and fairly indestructible, I bought two sizes but of course Squirrel only wants the big one!!

We had lots of visitors to see Lori's pups, they are really developing into great little characters now, you can imagine with 7 boys in the litter there's quite a lot of 'rough-housing' going on now! Tania helped to take some stacked pics of this litter, they're a bit young but it gives some idea of overall body shapes etc. The little red boy number 4 has a blue eye so he is not going to be suitable for the showring but will have a lovely agility home instead, he's a real sweetie. Girl no. 2 is almost the spitting image of Lori at the same age...it's quite uncanny!

Kittens' pups are growing nicely but still too young to be showing any personality. The smallest in the litter, the little 'mini Kitten' girl is the first to open her eyes at 12 days old :)) the others should all follow suit over the next couple of days and they should be up on their feet and getting ready for starting weaning over the next week too.

Have done very little packing at all this weekend! Less than 2 weeks now to D-day!! lol

1 comment:

Catherine West said...

They are SO cute! Yes, Noah has suddenly become very hard on his toys. Nothing is safe anymore! His favorite at the moment is homemade - I tied a rope tug onto a long strip of folded sheet which I knotted about six times. He carries it around with him everywhere! Puppy Agility starts next month! This should be interesting. :0)