Howdy, Magnum!

Last Sunday we visited Magnum at his Guardian Family.

One very big yard, eight dogs, five kids, two grown-ups… it was controlled mayhem and a load of fun!

 

We brought Amore, Zip, Lyra & Cassi. They had Magnum, Robbie & Piper. The neighbour’s Lab, Dodge, joined in the fun.

Robbie wanted to play chase – Amore obliged.

Piper (who is the oldest at 11) wasn’t sure all the action was such a good idea.

The kids – aged 5, 5, 7, 8, and 11 – put puppies in wagons, playhouses, arms, and more.

Lyra likes to tussle – everyone was a target! (Even Grandma MoMo at one point.)

Magnum couldn’t decide whom to play with first – he followed Zip, Lyra, Amore, Robbie… whoever got in the way. But Lyra really caught his fancy – hey, she is a spunky gal with lots of vim & verve.

Zip got lots of snuggles from Magnum’s Mom.

At one point, after the kids had abandoned the little kiddie play structure, Lyra discovered it... It has a slide, a little tunnel at one end, and a door giving access to the inside where one end of the tunnel is. Lyra started racing around in quick circles, into the structure through the tunnel, around & back again, with Cassi & Magnum in hot pursuit. Robbie stood by the outside end of the tunnel whining - he was too big to get through - while Zip & Mo looked on... We were all cracking 

By snapping about 150 pictures, I managed to get a good dozen or so of Magnum, some of which are featured here. (Amazingly, not too many of the 150 pictures feature dog parts – tails, legs, butts, etc – from dogs who got out of the camera window before I caught up!)

DragonRam Doodle Romp

DragonRam Doodles is organizing a Doodle Roma at the Conroy Dog Park on Tuesday, 12 July 2011, from 7:30-8:30pm (not change of date). We are specifically inviting all our puppies that live in the region (and their owners!) to come, but if there are any other doodle lovers/owners out there who would like to join us, we would be happy to have you.

At our last romp in May we met up again with the three boys from Amore's 2010 litter who all ended up in homes close by. They will now be 10 months old! This time we are hoping Galena, from Amore's 2011 litter (4 months old) will be able to join us too, and perhaps our new stud puppy CD Maggie's Magnum Rocky Road (Magnum), also 4 months old and a potential future mate for Galena.

Garnet's puppies are not fully vaccinated, so they are not ready to come to the dog park and wander around (when we bfought them before, they were confined to their playpen). But any potentially interested purchasers who would like to view them would be welcome to visit puppies either before or after the romp. Contact me for info.

Introducing Magnum

We went to the airport again earlier today to welcome a new arrival to Ottawa:

CD Maggie’s Magnum Rocky Road!!!

Magnum is a chocolate phantom stud-quality puppy that I have bought together with Linda of Canadian Doodle Puppies (also located in Ottawa). Magnum was born on March 14, 2011, at Canadoodles Australian Labradoodles in Grand Forks, BC. His dam is CD Sugar’s Maggie Muggins and his sire is Rivermist Colby, aka MacDuff. Both are mini chocolate phantoms.

Magnum arrived just before noon after a long journey from Grand Forks involving a 2.5-hour drive, 3 flights, and about 24 hours in transit. That’s an awfully long journey for little guy! I took the kids to greet him at the airport and he was happy to see us all. He'd actually arrived in Ottawa two hours earlier than anticipated, but we were not made aware of this so by the time Linda arrived he was wailing and yowling and wanting freedom! By the time we arrived a half hour later Linda had let him out, taken him for a pee, and given him enough attention that he was happy, calm, friendly, and outgoing. What a trooper!!

Magnum will be living with Linda’s pack until we find a Guardian Home for him. (Any interested parties, please contact me.)

Magnum is just 5 days younger than Galena, for whom he will be a potential mate once both reach maturity. They would produce chocolate minis with possibly some chocolate phantoms and creams. I also intend to use him with the puppy we plan to keep back from Garnet’s litter to produce black phantom and possibly chocolate phantom or cream puppies.

Magnum Rocky Road gets his name from the high-end ice cream company, Magnum, and the ice cream flavour Rocky Road which, being a chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and walnuts, reflects his chocolate-and-tan colouring and his status as an unaltered male (i.e. with “nuts” – haha!).

 

 

We welcome Magnum into our program.