Kitty Report

Kitty is a mess but I love her to death. She is a great addition to the family. She has had only two messes on the floor this week and she knew she was bad. I put bells on the door knob and she rings it to go outside and to come in. It is working real well. She has gotten so big that we are having to make her larger stairs so she can get on and off the bed by herself.

-Mom

Miss Kitty and Sway

I heard back from mom and Kitty is doing well. Mom says that she knows her name well and she sits on command. She is house trained and mom has a little ladder that she uses to get up on the bed at night. There she sleeps on mom's pillow.

Sway (right) is also doing really well. She is ornery! She gets to go play with Maverick sometimes and will enter her first match next week!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I am so happy that all my little bully babies are doing well. I have had multiple reports and the babies are ranging between 14lbs and 22 lbs right now. Maverick (the only boy) is gearing up to go to his first match in a month or so. Kitty is keeping my mom busy and turning into a really nice dog.

Sway is doing good in Iowa and working on growing into a nice show dog. Molly has an unfortunate nickname that tells us which side of the weight scale she is on! LOL!

The picture is Bella (Lavender) already out in that Southern California Sun!

Taking Advantage of Every Opportunity

I came home from running a few errands Saturday afternoon and an electric company guy was in my back yard playing with Lily and Lulu! Normally, I don't leave anyone outside while I am gone, but it was such a nice day and I was only going to be gone a short while. Lily and Lulu where mauling the poor guy. Of course, he seemed to be enjoying himself playing with them. The electrical problem was at the neighbors, but he was just making sure that all my lines where ok before they turned the power on. I think he volunteered because of the dogs. I am not sure where that crew was from, but I have seen several in the area from Georgia and Alabama. He said they made him miss his dogs. I was just glad I had not left Cinders outside because she would not have allowed him back there. He said she had been barking at him through the window and he was glad she wasn't out there.

He was a grizzled husky guy with a hard hat, uniform and some equipment on, so I thought it was an excellent opportunity for some socialization. I told him I had some pups and asked him if he wanted to see them. Of course he did! I knew he had to go back to work, so I brought out two bullys first. One was the boy ( I thought he would like him) and the other was Molly. While the 2 bullys were being loved on, I went in and got the purple and red pups. All the pups took to this big guy very well. The red pup did not want to wait her turn and was trying frantically to climb up his legs. Too bad he had to go back to work or I would have brought everyone out.

I am very happy the power is back on and the weather has improved. I let the pups run in the yard for an hour or so and I took some video. All together during the power outage I took an hours worth of video that needs to be uploaded and edited. So for those of you that got the first installations, that was about 30 min of video cut to 20 min. I still have another 30 min to go and I am already thinking about taking some more. Likely I will create another agility course this weekend. I am already thinking about it. However, I believe I have one on video that hasn't been uploaded yet.

12 days and counting w/ no electricity

The puppies are doing well. Everyone has moved to the living room and are living in the x-pen with the Dobermans near the wood stove. Everyone is getting more and more ornery. The little lavender collar girl is the explorer and she seems to be the first to always escape and roam around the house. The boy is also an escape artist. However, his method of escape is to bulldoze his way out. I have been creating puppy agility equipment for them and videoing them playing with it. Unfortunately , I can not upload the video until the electric comes back on. Everyone is so cute. They are all very chubby and wrinkly. Molly looks a bit lopsided. One of her ears is folding properly and the other is still floppy.

Puppies Everywhere!

The babies are getting big. Lulu loves to play with them. In doing so, she often collapses the side of the kiddie pool and frees everyone. I am sort of a sucker and all my floors are hardwood, so I usually let them run around for a while. They get into all sorts of things and have even had encounters with the dobe pups.

I took the available puppies over to my friends house Sunday. There they got to meet a few more Great Danes and a Pekingese. The orange collared fawn girl is very outgoing and was the first to start running around at my friend house. They are still nursing some, but Lulu is starting to dry up. They are eating moistened and canned puppy food pretty well now. Mostly they are just in to everything!

Puppies Go For a Visit

Yesterday I took all the puppies over to my friend's house to get stacked photos. The babies had lots of fun. My friends children played with the pups and they even called their neighbor over to see the little ones. Stacking and pictures went pretty well. At only 4 weeks old there is only so much we can expect from them before they get tired. I need to retake photos pf the boy and have had requests for side by side photos of the two remaining females. I will work on getting those and emailing them out to everyone.

The babies have really started to play with one another and with people. I have a new video which I sent out to several people, but it will also be available on the website shortly along with the new photos.

Puppies are starting to eat more and more real food (Purina Proplan Puppy). That is good because mom is getting tired of feeding them. Their little teeth hurt!!