One week old!!

Galena's pups are now one week (and two days!) old, and growing like crazy. They have already more than doubled their birth weight. Whereas at birth they fit easily into the palm of one hand, now they are overlowing!! While their activities are still pretty much limited to nursing, sleeping, and pooping, I've seen them wriggling around and even getting up on their legs momentarily before giving out and resorting to crawling once again. Soon their eyes and ears will open and they will start getting serious about walking. We always really enjoy that phase of development!

Grow, babies, grow!

They don't fit in one hand anymore!

Happy birthday Scarlett, Lily, Galaxy, Penelope, Leo and Ariel

Happy fourth birthday to Garnet’s second set of pups!

I can hardly believe that Leo, Lily, Galaxy and their sibs are going to be FOUR!! How time does fly! This was the litter that seemed to take forever to find homes – the first pups were four months old when they went home, and Leo and Ariel didn’t find homes until they were about 10-11 months old. But no matter what, we keep the pups and look after them until they find their forever family. It just wouldn’t be right to do anything else.

Leo, Lily and Galaxy are relatively frequent Doodle Romp attendees, so we get to meet them a couple times a year, which we always enjoy. Penelope lives nearby but we haven’t had the privilege of seeing her since she went home. Scarlett lives close to New York City, and Ariel is in Nova Scotia, so they are far away.

Ariel is also a breeding dog with Scotia Doodles. She has had several litters of lovely phantom, parti and solid coloured pups for Rhonda. She was a lively and friendly girl and we had contemplated keeping her ourselves but decided at that time not to, but we’re happy to keep up with her online.

Happy fourth birthday! 

Have a great time now, in the coming holiday season, and beyond!

 

We have puppies!!

I am pleased to announce that Galena surprised us this afternoon by giving birth to SIX beautiful babies. Our vet had counted five on the ultrasound with, she said, maybe a sixth but she thought the sixth was more likely a partially resorbed embryo as it was much smaller and less well-defined. As it turns out, one of the pups is much smaller than the others; maybe that was him.

We have:

• Puppy #1: male, 234g, caramel with a small white spot on his chest, born around 2:35
• Puppy #2: male, 248g, solid chocolate, born at 2:45
• Puppy #3: male, 274g, caramel with a white star on his forehead, born at 2:50
• Puppy #4: male, 190g, chocolate (phantom?) with a tiny white spot on his chest, born at 3:33
• Puppy #5: female, 263g, chocolate phantom, born at 3:57
• Puppy #6: male, 290g, chocolate (phantom?) with a large white patch on his chest, born at 4:24

This measn that the winner of the Guess How Many Puppies contest is Kathleen, sho guessed six puppies with the first born on 17 Nov at 3:30pm. That's less than an hour ort from when the first one actually arrived. Congrats Kathleen! A $10 Timmy's card will be winging its way to you shortly. 

And congrats to Galena and Cumin Chino, who made some beautiful babies together!

If you know anyone who is thinking of getting a puppy, send them our way. Several of these pups are still available.

Welcome to Hugo!

Over the past couple of months I have been working to obtain another stud puppy for our program. I am happy to announce that as of last Thursday, we welcomed Scotia Doodles Hugo to our dog family!!

Hugo was born on 31 July 2015, so he is now 3 months old. He is a lovely apricot colour, and carries black and chocolate. Not to mention that he is an invisible phantom, so bred with a black or chocolate phantom female they would have lots of beautiful phantom pups! He is expected to mature to about 30 lbs and 17" at the shoulder. His sire is Puppy Loves unDante and his dam is Scotia Doodles Amber. 
 

He has already been tested for EIC, PRA, OSD, and had an initial CERF exam. All that remains is to check his hips, which we will do early in 2016, check vWD and get a genetic ID. Once he passes all testing and matures we expect to use him with our girls Harmony and Phoennix, and possibly others. We will also consider studding him out to approved females, if there is interest.
 

One of our prime reasons for getting a second in-house stud is specifically to have a match for Harmony. We had intended to use Cumin with her, but they are both EIC carriers so that is out of the question. Also, having an in-house stud suitable for use with Phoenix (and possibly Katniss) is good, as Cumin is Phoenix's son and Katniss's brother, so those pairings are also out of the question! 

Hugo will be joining Cumin in his guardian family, so both our studs will live together. Here's hopint they get along!