Update at Nine Months

I just thought I'd give a little update on the puppies.  All of them are doing great!  Everyone is growing on schedule, temperaments are, by all accounts, fantastic, and health-wise we haven't seen anything untoward.

Stay tuned for the annual update when everyone turns a year old.  Hopefully I'll be able to post photos of everyone!  :)

Stung by a bee, but...

I had a friend out chop up a bunch of logs that were laying on the ground in the front yard.  As he was cutting, he discovered that I have a ground hive of honey bees under one of the logs.  Not such a big deal because these bees are not very aggressive - he just moved away without getting stung and was actually able to come back after they'd settled and move some of the logs out of the way.

But of course, the hive happens to be right in the area where the puppies choose to spend most of their time (go figure!).  Anyway, the flashy boy sat on the hive the other night.  Literally sat on it.  The bees, as you can imagine, were not very happy with that state of affairs, so he got stung on the bum.  He yipped and jumped up and the bees came buzzing lazily out of their hive to hover around the entrance to the hive.  As I said, these are not aggressive bees so he didn't get stung again - I love honey bees for that reason!

Anyway, I checked this puppy five, ten, thirty minutes later and guess what?  NO swelling!  I couldn't even tell where he'd been stung....

And that, ladies and gentlemen is one of the big reasons I chose to breed Porsche to Ronin.  The majority of Ronin's kids and grandkids do not have severe reactions to bites and stings.

I'm thrilled to see that trait has passed down - at least to one puppy!

Nine weeks and they're off...

Well, two of Porsche's puppies have made their way to their new homes.  The flashy boy will be with us until the end of the month as his owners have work commitments until then, and boy#3 (who as yet has no name) will be staying with me.

That just leaves two more puppies to find homes - Boy #2 and Girl #2 the flashy girl.  Hopefully I can find homes for them soon - they deserve to have more one on one time than I can give them.

That said, my mom spends time every day cuddling with each of the little darlings one on one!  :)

Keep your eyes and ears out for a good home for one of these guys!!

Eight weeks...my oh my!

It's amazing how quickly time flies when you're having fun!!  I have spent so much time with these little monsters - watching, cuddling, snuggling...and thinking.  Today was vet checks and their first vaccine (parvo/distemper only) as well as assessments.

Now the hard task of deciding which puppy is staying, and where the others are going!  I will be updating my website with eight week photos shortly (probably tomorrow) for everyone to see!

It's been a long day, so I'm off to bed!  4:30 am comes awfully early when the pups have to get up to pee!! 

Off to Red Deer for PAT's today!

Porsche's puppies and I (and my good friend Kat) are headed down to Red Deer to have Cindy and Joanne do Puppy Aptitude Testing.  It is a formal form of temperament testing that gives some addiitonal information about the puppies' temperament over and above the information that I collect during their development and eight week assessments.

It will be interesting to see what I've got!  :)

Week Seven Candid Photos - Part 4

Looking for more photos?  They're here in earlier posts - use the menu to the right to navigate through the older posts!  Enjoy!

Week Seven Candid Photos - Part 3