Friday 29 January 2016

Happy birthday Matilda, Hershey, Tara, Oscar, Kacey & Cupcake Kiera



Galena’s first litter turns THREE today!

These pups were born on a cold day at the end of January, but by the time they went home at the end of March/early April the weather was warm and spring was definitely on its way! We use book characters for the names we give Galena’s pups. For this litter the names came from a variety of sources so there’s no one book or series I can point to. Two of the names came from The Other Half of My Heat, a book about twin girls one of whom is black like their mom (Kiera) and the other white like their dad (Lunette). Two come from the Roman Mysteries series (Apollo and Nubia), one from Urchin of the Riding Stars (Crispin), and one from a horse series my daughter liked (Firefly). The six pups are:
Kacey Lunette
Cupcake Kiera
Tara Firefly
Hershey Crispin
Oscar Apollo
Matilda Nubia

Matilda, a chocolate beauty, is a regular Doodle Romp attendee. Hershey has joined us a couple of times - the first time when Rusty Rococo (from Topaz’s first litter) joined the family. Apollo and Tara also live nearby and have joined us once or twice. Kacey lives in Toronto and Kiera joined Barksdale Labradoodles in in Mississippi, where she had her first litter of just two pups in the fall of 2014.

Happy third birthday!
Have a great winter playing in the snow.

Tuesday 5 January 2016

Seven weeks old!

Beautiful girl "Evrial"

Big boy "Moose"

Happy siblings
What's up?

Gold boy "Peeta"

Curious pups

Saturday 2 January 2016

Happy New Year Doodles!

We hope that everyone had a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year celebration. 

So here we are, January 2016, and the pups are entering into a very eventful period of their as yet short life. On Monday they will get their first vaccinations and checkup at the vet. On Wednesday they will visit my son's school first thing in the morning, and later that day the dog behaviourist will come and run them through the temperament assessment.  We expect to receive the results by Thursday evening or early Friday, so that puppy allocation can take place over the weekend. Then it will be just one short week until they head to their new forever homes!

Here are several shots of the pups at 6 weeks of age, taken of them playing in our "puppy corner." Enjoy!