Homes for Cassi & Lyra!

There may not have been much posted on this blog for a while, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy!

Lyra has been in Puppy Kindergarten since late September to help her learn her manners. (We’ve then been having her teach Cassi what she’s learned!)

Amore has been in agility training since mid-September at the Ottawa Canine School, a small indoor facility on St-Laurent. She really likes it and does very well! My daughter has been her main handler and is also doing well – it’s not always easy to remember what order to do things, which hand to use to guide the dog, and to do all the subtle body language cues the dog responds to. We hope to do another short session this fall. Depending on the timing of her winter litter, we hope to do some outdoor agility with her in spring.

Since our visit to the vet in late September revealed that Lyra’s underbite was much worse than we had thought, we took her to the dental specialist in early October to assess the situation. He recommended surgery to remove some teeth to make her more comfortable and to give her jaw a chance to grow more in the remaining growth period before she turns 6 months old. He also recommended not using her for breeding, so we made the hard decision to place her as a pet, and had her spayed the same day as the dental surgery.

But the good news is that both Cassi & Lyra have now found their forever families!! (In the space of one weekend!) And both of them will be staying here in Ottawa, so we hope to see them at future doodle romps.

Lyra will be joining Beth, Doug, & their teenage daughter Erin this coming Friday. They have come to meet her twice, so we hope that bit of extra familiarity will help ease her transition to her new home, after five months with us and her sister. We will post some pictures of “going-home” day on the weekend.

Cassi will be joining Lisa & Mike. They are hoping to involve their puppy in therapy dog work once she matures, and we all felt Cassi’s lovely gentle and (mostly) quiet temperament would be best for that type of work. They will be out of town for a few days next week, so Cassi will join them the last Friday of October. We will post more pictures after Cassi’s “going-home” day too!

With Lyra becoming a pet, that means that we are now short one breeding female that we had planned would be of breeding age in late 2012. I am now scouting around for another breeding prospect female puppy (or maybe two) that would replace her. It will take some time, but once I have news you’ll see it here!