Here they are, like tiny little toy dogs :o)
Although they're active and playful they're much quieter and easier to manage then either collie or cocker pups and a real pleasure to have in the home.
There are still a couple available to the right homes, I think they'll make fab little flyball and/or agility dogs but equally just make super little family pets...just love 'em!
Monday, 1 February 2010
Flyball at Gap Farm
Well, this was a couple of weeks ago and was our first tournament of the year and our first time out competing since October. We have some new team members for 2010 in the form of Simon, Sharon, Rachel and Megan Morgan (yep, we’ve doubled in size overnight! Lol) and their smooth working sheepdog Fly. We are all practically neighbours since ‘the Morgans’ live in the same village as Paul and Alison which is the next village to mine which makes meeting up together nice and easy (apart from poor Gemma who lives some 40 mins away in Manchester but considers our house as her second home I’m sure lol). Some of our dogs have run with Fly before since we were all previously members of another team so I already knew what to expect when planning teams. The first decision we made was to always run Fly last dog, at least for the time being. I don’t like having dogs that will only run in one position and in fact Fly is not one of these dogs but I do know that she has a very strong eye and runs out much better when there’s no other dogs in her field of vision. We also ensured that the rest of the team were well at the back of the ring and out of her immediate eyeline so she could focus on Rachel and her reward ball. We have some work to do to really get the best out of Fly (her boxwork is atrocious!) but something as simple as running her last dog made an instant difference and knocked a considerable fraction off the times she has been running. We ran her in the Demon Racers with Mac, Pip, Dottie/Lexie and Fly last, this was the first competition back since having pups for both Dottie and Lexie, both ran well, just need to get a bit fitter. I had submitted a time of 21.50 for this team and we ran a fastest time of 20.89 (so not a bad estimation!), we had been seeded 5th in Division 4 but came away with a respectable 2nd place!
Vid of this team in action…. Mac – Pip – Dottie and Fly.
The Speed Demonz were top seed in Division One, based on our pre-break seed time of 17.71 and running the same combination of dogs, Dylan, Bailey, Faith & Teal. Poor Rach got thrown in the deep end running Faith in this team as did Simon who was our boxloader for the day, Simons first time boxloading and Rachel's first time running Faith and her first time in Division One but they both did a brilliant job! Faith is starting to get back on form and ran really well, much more focused than she had been pre-break. We had issues with Dylan dropping his ball so just moved him to last dog (where we know he won’t do it!), this does affect his times but better that than a fault every leg! So Gemma and Bailey ran start, not his favourite position either but I didn’t want to change Rachel’s changeover with Faith and no-one is going to run a cocker start dog are they?! Lol Our times weren’t very good but they were consistent, considering we’ve only trained once since we last ran everyone did a really great job with changeovers etc. We had the benefit of Sharon to collect balls and Megan on the line for both teams who did a brilliant job of taking down all the split times (that girl can write fast! lol) which gave us the opportunity to review the splits when we got home. This revealed…Bailey was about 0.2secs off his normal pace (as I would expect with him running start), Faith was running better than she had been and getting back to her best (yipee!), Teal was 0.25-0.35 off her best…I had noticed in the videos that she was throwing in a lot of double strides so she is lacking fitness but she also came in season the next day, this could well have been affecting her. Dylan was about 0.2 off his usual pace too which is down to him running last BUT this is less of an impact than we’ve previously seen with him which I put down to running in against Teal as opposed to a bigger dog, worth making a note of this!
This team running against the Alpha Dogz...(Bailey, Faith, Teal, Dylan)
and again aganist Barney Owlers..
These videos were taken by my friend Minna who was over from Finland for the weekend, Minna took home one of Vi and Dazzle's boys...she owned their great grandfather Jouko (Fin CH Pikkupaimenen Fair Play) whom these babies are line bred on.
Also making his open competition debut for the host team Notts Supadogs was Spark-Kes son Tarn, Bryning Goshawk. He ran brilliantly in Division One and their team knocked 0.5sec of their current seed time! :o)
I picked up Drake's Silver award and Gemma and Bailey picked up their Chica Chicana award too! :o) All in all a good day running on a new and fantastic surface...can't wait for the next one!
Vid of this team in action…. Mac – Pip – Dottie and Fly.
The Speed Demonz were top seed in Division One, based on our pre-break seed time of 17.71 and running the same combination of dogs, Dylan, Bailey, Faith & Teal. Poor Rach got thrown in the deep end running Faith in this team as did Simon who was our boxloader for the day, Simons first time boxloading and Rachel's first time running Faith and her first time in Division One but they both did a brilliant job! Faith is starting to get back on form and ran really well, much more focused than she had been pre-break. We had issues with Dylan dropping his ball so just moved him to last dog (where we know he won’t do it!), this does affect his times but better that than a fault every leg! So Gemma and Bailey ran start, not his favourite position either but I didn’t want to change Rachel’s changeover with Faith and no-one is going to run a cocker start dog are they?! Lol Our times weren’t very good but they were consistent, considering we’ve only trained once since we last ran everyone did a really great job with changeovers etc. We had the benefit of Sharon to collect balls and Megan on the line for both teams who did a brilliant job of taking down all the split times (that girl can write fast! lol) which gave us the opportunity to review the splits when we got home. This revealed…Bailey was about 0.2secs off his normal pace (as I would expect with him running start), Faith was running better than she had been and getting back to her best (yipee!), Teal was 0.25-0.35 off her best…I had noticed in the videos that she was throwing in a lot of double strides so she is lacking fitness but she also came in season the next day, this could well have been affecting her. Dylan was about 0.2 off his usual pace too which is down to him running last BUT this is less of an impact than we’ve previously seen with him which I put down to running in against Teal as opposed to a bigger dog, worth making a note of this!
This team running against the Alpha Dogz...(Bailey, Faith, Teal, Dylan)
and again aganist Barney Owlers..
These videos were taken by my friend Minna who was over from Finland for the weekend, Minna took home one of Vi and Dazzle's boys...she owned their great grandfather Jouko (Fin CH Pikkupaimenen Fair Play) whom these babies are line bred on.
Also making his open competition debut for the host team Notts Supadogs was Spark-Kes son Tarn, Bryning Goshawk. He ran brilliantly in Division One and their team knocked 0.5sec of their current seed time! :o)
I picked up Drake's Silver award and Gemma and Bailey picked up their Chica Chicana award too! :o) All in all a good day running on a new and fantastic surface...can't wait for the next one!
Thursday, 28 January 2010
A sad day...
The little parson baby passed to the Rainbow Bridge last Friday. I took her to the vets to see what Stuart thought and he immediately noticed her exagerated head shape, after chatting about her behaviour and symptoms it seemed most likely that she was suffering with hydrocephalus and that the resultant lack of co-ordination was the reason she was struggling to feed properly, even when bottle or hand fed she was taking on very little. This had already left her tiny and thin and permanently hungry so we had to make the difficult decision to save her from any further suffering; she passed peacefully away but it was a very sad moment, having watched her fight to survive and start to develop her own little personality over the last four weeks...sleep well little girl x
What I hadn't expected was Squirrels reaction, she spent the next couple of days searching round the house trying to find her and was very quiet, almost depressed, for the next few days. I brought her and the rest of the puppies downstairs as a distraction and thankfully she seems to be ok now. The rest of the babies are doing really well, new photos to follow...
What I hadn't expected was Squirrels reaction, she spent the next couple of days searching round the house trying to find her and was very quiet, almost depressed, for the next few days. I brought her and the rest of the puppies downstairs as a distraction and thankfully she seems to be ok now. The rest of the babies are doing really well, new photos to follow...
Thursday, 21 January 2010
The heartache of breeding
I’ve done it again, fallen way behind in my blogging, I was sure I’d have much more time for blogging over winter but I just don’t know where it goes??!!
I’m going to do a couple of separate postings to catch up re. different things rather than another mammoth one ;o)
On a general note, the parson puppies are all doing great guns (4 weeks old tomorrow and I really must get some new pics) apart from our little ‘squidge’…at this very moment I am struggling to make a decision on her future, she is gaining weight but so incredibly slowly, she hardly seems able to take on enough food to sustain herself let alone grow and yet she is relatively bright, she sits up and is on her feet and toddling around with the others but she just looks so pitiful. She is painfully thin, a real tiny scrawny little thing and her coat is rough and disheveled despite being kept immaculately clean by Squirrel. She makes attempts to feed with the others but my feeling is that there is something wrong with her gullet or epiglottis that makes it virtually impossible for her to swallow correctly so while she is hungry, she can only feed for a very short period at a time and seems unable to take on enough before she starts to struggle. Poor Squirrel knows there is something wrong and is trying her best to care for her, she even picks her up and carries her to me like she’s asking for my help and as the other puppies grow bigger and stronger and more boisterous I worry that she won’t cope amongst them all for much longer. Early on I had decided to let nature take it’s course, if she lived she was meant to and if she didn’t then she wasn’t but now I am really concerned that she is surviving and suffering, hungry and weak and struggling to breathe. I’ve obviously grown very fond of this baby and don’t want to let her go and despite her best efforts to stay alive I wonder if the kindest thing I can do is make the decision for her. It’s a really tough call and one that is testing every emotion I have.
I’m going to do a couple of separate postings to catch up re. different things rather than another mammoth one ;o)
On a general note, the parson puppies are all doing great guns (4 weeks old tomorrow and I really must get some new pics) apart from our little ‘squidge’…at this very moment I am struggling to make a decision on her future, she is gaining weight but so incredibly slowly, she hardly seems able to take on enough food to sustain herself let alone grow and yet she is relatively bright, she sits up and is on her feet and toddling around with the others but she just looks so pitiful. She is painfully thin, a real tiny scrawny little thing and her coat is rough and disheveled despite being kept immaculately clean by Squirrel. She makes attempts to feed with the others but my feeling is that there is something wrong with her gullet or epiglottis that makes it virtually impossible for her to swallow correctly so while she is hungry, she can only feed for a very short period at a time and seems unable to take on enough before she starts to struggle. Poor Squirrel knows there is something wrong and is trying her best to care for her, she even picks her up and carries her to me like she’s asking for my help and as the other puppies grow bigger and stronger and more boisterous I worry that she won’t cope amongst them all for much longer. Early on I had decided to let nature take it’s course, if she lived she was meant to and if she didn’t then she wasn’t but now I am really concerned that she is surviving and suffering, hungry and weak and struggling to breathe. I’ve obviously grown very fond of this baby and don’t want to let her go and despite her best efforts to stay alive I wonder if the kindest thing I can do is make the decision for her. It’s a really tough call and one that is testing every emotion I have.
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
The whole of December in one go...
Gosh, a month without a blog update, I think that must be a record! I have just been so busy at work and at home with the puppies and Christmas and everything else that I’ve hardly even found time to sit down, I’ve done no Christmas cards…electronic or otherwise and I don’t have our 2010 calendar done yet either (it’s a poor show I know) so really no time for blogging or catching up on friends’ blogs either…ho hum!
We’ve seen two birthdays with Squirrel turning two at the start of the month and Ethan turning four a couple of days later; with that and Christmas on top the toy box is over flowing although, as always seems to be the case, several toys have already been demolished and consigned to the bin
(this is just one of our THREE toy baskets!)
So, what else has been happening? Well quite a lot when I look back actually!
Flyball
The weather has been so bad (wet, wet, wet!) we’ve really done no training at all for a couple of months, the same with agility. Gemma had been up at the end of November and taken the training chute to do some work with Fynn and when she came back up at the beginning of December the work she’d been doing was evident. He is now much more focused on his ball and is doing some nice jumps on and off the chute, we decided to try him on the box to see what he would do and he took to it fine, the motion is initially quite slow as he’s having to think about what he’s doing but he’s not bothered by the movement and noise of the box and is looking promising. We also did a little bit of work with Jovi, she is keen as mustard but is definitely more hesitant than Fynn, I think her technique will improve as she grows in confidence.
Fynn’s first go on the box…
A week or so later and Gemma was back up, this time with Alicia and Lola so we set up a couple of jumps and the box in the garden and did some work with all 3, I was really pleased with them all. Lola has already been doing runbacks and has a lovely hurdling action; her main issue at the moment is focus (she is SO like her mother!). Fynn still needs to think about his co-ordination a little more but I was pleased with the way he was running up and down the hurdles and doing the box nicely too. JoJo is very keen still and was eagerly running up and down and taking the ball from the box but her box technique is still not great. I think time and practice will be the key to this because she’s keen on a ball and she also wants to get back to me asap so she has the key things that make up a good fast turn once we sort her technique out.
Agility
We’ve done no agility training (apart from the odd bit in the garden) for months and months. I did make a set of weave guides to finally press on and finish teaching both my girls to weave. I’ve been training them on channels but really struggled with the transition to normal competition uprights. I could kick myself for not having made these guides sooner! They have absolutely done the trick!
Faith first time with the guides...
Teal first time with the guides..
5th December saw our second agility show with Faith and Teal; I was very undecided about whether or not to run them both as I really hadn’t finished proofing the weaves for competition but I ran them through in the garden a couple of times and decided to go for it; it is only 5 mins down the road after all. When I arrived I had missed Teals’ first class (graded 1-2 agility) and when I looked at the 1-2 jumping I decided against running either girl on the course, it just wasn’t the nice flowing confidence building sort of course I was looking for. I had also missed walking the small combined 1-7 agility, I watched a few dogs round the course and decided it was something Teal and I could tackle, even if we weren’t going to stand a chance against the higher graded dogs it would be good experience. It was a nice flowing course with a couple of little ‘handly’ bits here and there but it was going to be a bit of a blast and I hoped Teal wouldn’t be too crazy and start missing contacts. She did a nice calm startline wait and then we were off…jump-dogwalk to start (again!) and she nailed the running contact (big smile) then off over a series of jumps which she ran fast and accurately then a straight tunnel and out over a jump into an empty space, there was another jump in line that she had to come back over while I had decided to also put a reverse turn in to get on the other side of her…it was only when I actually got there that I realized how big the gap between the jumps was leaving a serious risk of her coming through the gap and getting 5R and I dithered…the lack of any command at all saw Teal land the jump and then run straight to the scribe who was sitting on a chair directly in front of her! I moved across and put the turn in as I called her back and she thankfully ran back and over the jump and we continued the course, over the A frame another star of jumps and then straight down a line of tyre, seesaw and jump home…our first clear round!! I was so pleased with my little girl!! It was only looking at the results later that I realized how close we had been to a place and how dearly that hesitation had cost, there were 100 grade 1-7 small dogs in the class and places to 10th, despite it being a combined class Teal was only 0.5sec off being placed and ran a faster time than quite a number of grade 6/7 dogs that had run clear. I am certain that she would have placed top 5 without that ‘blip’ mid round…that’ll teach me to get there in time to walk the courses in future! Live and learn I guess!
I did walk the graded large 1&2 agility which was a really lovely course that I really wanted to have a go at with Faith, it was right up her street and I thought we stood a good chance of a decent clear. I decided to adopt a different technique in keeping her calm so Veronica queued for me and I brought her in right at the last minute and wouldn’t let her watch. This technique proved to be entirely the wrong one. I set her up on the start line just as a springer spaniel started running in the next ring and she just couldn’t take her eyes off it! As I released her it ran up the dogwalk that was alongside our ring and Fi crashed through the first jump (since she only had half an eye on it!), ran through the tunnel, over jump 3 and then kept going in the direction of the next ring!! I yelled her back and set her up to continue but her neck was craned back looking toward the other ring, there was no way she was going to concentrate so I picked her up and carried her out...arghhhhh…sooooo frustrating! I think maybe we need to leave indoor competitions well alone for now, get some more training in and come back to agility again when it’s outdoors with bigger rings and less noise. I also think it may well be better to let her watch as much as she likes before running her, let her get it out of her system; we’ll see I guess!
We managed to get a small amount of training in just before Christmas when we went down to Oxford to stay with Joy and Becca for the weekend while going to watch Becca and Teal (Bryning Time to Shine) competing at Olympia. It was a fab weekend, Olympia was great…a day out with friends…agility, showjumping and shopping…what more could you ask for?! Poor Becca had been in bed all week with tonsilitis so was not on her best form and struggled on the huge courses but the girls did really well, the clear round in the morning saw them place 16th and into the pairs final in the afternoon where they came 3rd, fastest time but 15 faults between them…a real shame.
There is full footage of both the semis and the pairs (and in fact the whole competition) on the Horse and Country channel website...brilliant!
Becca and Teal appear around 5 minutes into episode 3
Semis Episode One
Semis Episode Two
Semis Epiosde Three
Semis and Final Episode Four
(video of the pairs filmed by me still to come!!)
Weather
Like most of the rest of the country we’ve had quite a lot of snow and ice over the past week or so which has actually been really nice. A little hairy driving too and from work, the shops etc but bliss when taking the dogs out…the ground is hard underfoot and everyone stays clean!
This was our lane and house on Christmas Eve (a white Christmas!)
and the dogs racing around in the snow in the garden...
Puppies
Well, the puppies have all grown up and many have left us already. Aston (Bryning Volante) is the black/white dog pup from Tally and Lexie’s litter and he is the one staying. I had wanted a black/white dog pup from this litter and since he was the only one I didn’t have a choice but I am more than happy with him, he’s beautifully constructed, well marked, very toy orientated and has a really nice happy outgoing character…perfick!
There is still an ongoing dilemma as to which of Dazzle’s girls will stay but I am pretty certain it is the little merle bitch, she looks like a little wind up toy but is an absolute menace! Not decided on a name yet, something cute and girlie..we’ll see.
Here’s three of the girls (one has left for her new home already) playing tuggy in the lounge…
and here's them again playing in the dining room..
and here's the boys...
I am very pleased with these as Viggos’ first litter and he’s had two more born over the past few weeks so it will be very interesting to see how they turn out too.
Christmas day saw the arrival of a very special delivery…our first parson puppies!! Squirrel is proving to be a really natural and devoted mother, the puppies are all doing well apart from the little bitch that was the smallest at birth, she really is tiny and seems to be struggling to feed so I’ve started supplementing her, will keep everything crossed that she starts to gain weight and strength and starts to thrive but it is a bit of a worry.
I think that sees us just about up to date!
We’ve seen two birthdays with Squirrel turning two at the start of the month and Ethan turning four a couple of days later; with that and Christmas on top the toy box is over flowing although, as always seems to be the case, several toys have already been demolished and consigned to the bin
(this is just one of our THREE toy baskets!)
So, what else has been happening? Well quite a lot when I look back actually!
Flyball
The weather has been so bad (wet, wet, wet!) we’ve really done no training at all for a couple of months, the same with agility. Gemma had been up at the end of November and taken the training chute to do some work with Fynn and when she came back up at the beginning of December the work she’d been doing was evident. He is now much more focused on his ball and is doing some nice jumps on and off the chute, we decided to try him on the box to see what he would do and he took to it fine, the motion is initially quite slow as he’s having to think about what he’s doing but he’s not bothered by the movement and noise of the box and is looking promising. We also did a little bit of work with Jovi, she is keen as mustard but is definitely more hesitant than Fynn, I think her technique will improve as she grows in confidence.
Fynn’s first go on the box…
A week or so later and Gemma was back up, this time with Alicia and Lola so we set up a couple of jumps and the box in the garden and did some work with all 3, I was really pleased with them all. Lola has already been doing runbacks and has a lovely hurdling action; her main issue at the moment is focus (she is SO like her mother!). Fynn still needs to think about his co-ordination a little more but I was pleased with the way he was running up and down the hurdles and doing the box nicely too. JoJo is very keen still and was eagerly running up and down and taking the ball from the box but her box technique is still not great. I think time and practice will be the key to this because she’s keen on a ball and she also wants to get back to me asap so she has the key things that make up a good fast turn once we sort her technique out.
Agility
We’ve done no agility training (apart from the odd bit in the garden) for months and months. I did make a set of weave guides to finally press on and finish teaching both my girls to weave. I’ve been training them on channels but really struggled with the transition to normal competition uprights. I could kick myself for not having made these guides sooner! They have absolutely done the trick!
Faith first time with the guides...
Teal first time with the guides..
5th December saw our second agility show with Faith and Teal; I was very undecided about whether or not to run them both as I really hadn’t finished proofing the weaves for competition but I ran them through in the garden a couple of times and decided to go for it; it is only 5 mins down the road after all. When I arrived I had missed Teals’ first class (graded 1-2 agility) and when I looked at the 1-2 jumping I decided against running either girl on the course, it just wasn’t the nice flowing confidence building sort of course I was looking for. I had also missed walking the small combined 1-7 agility, I watched a few dogs round the course and decided it was something Teal and I could tackle, even if we weren’t going to stand a chance against the higher graded dogs it would be good experience. It was a nice flowing course with a couple of little ‘handly’ bits here and there but it was going to be a bit of a blast and I hoped Teal wouldn’t be too crazy and start missing contacts. She did a nice calm startline wait and then we were off…jump-dogwalk to start (again!) and she nailed the running contact (big smile) then off over a series of jumps which she ran fast and accurately then a straight tunnel and out over a jump into an empty space, there was another jump in line that she had to come back over while I had decided to also put a reverse turn in to get on the other side of her…it was only when I actually got there that I realized how big the gap between the jumps was leaving a serious risk of her coming through the gap and getting 5R and I dithered…the lack of any command at all saw Teal land the jump and then run straight to the scribe who was sitting on a chair directly in front of her! I moved across and put the turn in as I called her back and she thankfully ran back and over the jump and we continued the course, over the A frame another star of jumps and then straight down a line of tyre, seesaw and jump home…our first clear round!! I was so pleased with my little girl!! It was only looking at the results later that I realized how close we had been to a place and how dearly that hesitation had cost, there were 100 grade 1-7 small dogs in the class and places to 10th, despite it being a combined class Teal was only 0.5sec off being placed and ran a faster time than quite a number of grade 6/7 dogs that had run clear. I am certain that she would have placed top 5 without that ‘blip’ mid round…that’ll teach me to get there in time to walk the courses in future! Live and learn I guess!
I did walk the graded large 1&2 agility which was a really lovely course that I really wanted to have a go at with Faith, it was right up her street and I thought we stood a good chance of a decent clear. I decided to adopt a different technique in keeping her calm so Veronica queued for me and I brought her in right at the last minute and wouldn’t let her watch. This technique proved to be entirely the wrong one. I set her up on the start line just as a springer spaniel started running in the next ring and she just couldn’t take her eyes off it! As I released her it ran up the dogwalk that was alongside our ring and Fi crashed through the first jump (since she only had half an eye on it!), ran through the tunnel, over jump 3 and then kept going in the direction of the next ring!! I yelled her back and set her up to continue but her neck was craned back looking toward the other ring, there was no way she was going to concentrate so I picked her up and carried her out...arghhhhh…sooooo frustrating! I think maybe we need to leave indoor competitions well alone for now, get some more training in and come back to agility again when it’s outdoors with bigger rings and less noise. I also think it may well be better to let her watch as much as she likes before running her, let her get it out of her system; we’ll see I guess!
We managed to get a small amount of training in just before Christmas when we went down to Oxford to stay with Joy and Becca for the weekend while going to watch Becca and Teal (Bryning Time to Shine) competing at Olympia. It was a fab weekend, Olympia was great…a day out with friends…agility, showjumping and shopping…what more could you ask for?! Poor Becca had been in bed all week with tonsilitis so was not on her best form and struggled on the huge courses but the girls did really well, the clear round in the morning saw them place 16th and into the pairs final in the afternoon where they came 3rd, fastest time but 15 faults between them…a real shame.
There is full footage of both the semis and the pairs (and in fact the whole competition) on the Horse and Country channel website...brilliant!
Becca and Teal appear around 5 minutes into episode 3
Semis Episode One
Semis Episode Two
Semis Epiosde Three
Semis and Final Episode Four
(video of the pairs filmed by me still to come!!)
Weather
Like most of the rest of the country we’ve had quite a lot of snow and ice over the past week or so which has actually been really nice. A little hairy driving too and from work, the shops etc but bliss when taking the dogs out…the ground is hard underfoot and everyone stays clean!
This was our lane and house on Christmas Eve (a white Christmas!)
and the dogs racing around in the snow in the garden...
Puppies
Well, the puppies have all grown up and many have left us already. Aston (Bryning Volante) is the black/white dog pup from Tally and Lexie’s litter and he is the one staying. I had wanted a black/white dog pup from this litter and since he was the only one I didn’t have a choice but I am more than happy with him, he’s beautifully constructed, well marked, very toy orientated and has a really nice happy outgoing character…perfick!
There is still an ongoing dilemma as to which of Dazzle’s girls will stay but I am pretty certain it is the little merle bitch, she looks like a little wind up toy but is an absolute menace! Not decided on a name yet, something cute and girlie..we’ll see
Here’s three of the girls (one has left for her new home already) playing tuggy in the lounge…
and here's them again playing in the dining room..
and here's the boys...
I am very pleased with these as Viggos’ first litter and he’s had two more born over the past few weeks so it will be very interesting to see how they turn out too.
Christmas day saw the arrival of a very special delivery…our first parson puppies!! Squirrel is proving to be a really natural and devoted mother, the puppies are all doing well apart from the little bitch that was the smallest at birth, she really is tiny and seems to be struggling to feed so I’ve started supplementing her, will keep everything crossed that she starts to gain weight and strength and starts to thrive but it is a bit of a worry.
I think that sees us just about up to date!
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Tally & Lexie pups - 3 weeks old
And here’s Lexies’ pups (plus one), same age and same stage…greedily falling onto their first meal and gobbling it all up (with Lexie patiently waiting to see what they might have left…not much! lol)
It never ceases to amaze me how much they change in such a short space of time, in just 3 weeks they’ve gone from little deaf/blind blobs to active little creatures that can wobble around and eat proper food and in another 3 weeks they’ll be running around and causing mayhem like Dotties pups now! lol
It never ceases to amaze me how much they change in such a short space of time, in just 3 weeks they’ve gone from little deaf/blind blobs to active little creatures that can wobble around and eat proper food and in another 3 weeks they’ll be running around and causing mayhem like Dotties pups now! lol
Viggo & Dazzle pups - 3 weeks old
Here’s Dazzles’ pups (less one) enjoying their first solid meal…soaked and mushed up Eukanuba puppy (lamb & rice)…Mmmmmm…yummy!! Three weeks old so starting to cut their first teeth and ready to start weaning, they needed little encouragement to eat although they are all quite fat and well fed; Daz is doing a good job as usual :)
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