Caspian is doing awesome – he is confident and loves to explore his environment. He gets to have supervised playtime with Ivy’s puppies who are left, and while they are twice his height and weight, he holds his own toddling around with them. Don’t tell him he is small – he believes he is mighty man.
I adore this little guy, and love watching his personality emerge. Here he is exploring some of our garden today
The PNW summer is warm and everything I love about living here. Mr Caspian is very confident on his feet and always wanting to be close to us, so I took him outside for a little walk in the garden. He LOVED it – he explored and walked around with such confidence – man oh man – I am a little enamored.
Brinn is a wonderful mom and loves her babies. Good dams are worth their weight in gold and I am so thankful she has lots of milk and is careful to take care of them.
The boys have started to open their eyes. I am sure they will start to move around a bit more in the coming days.
Brinn’s xray showed just 2 puppies and so we were on high alert watching her to see if there were any signs of labor. She was restless on Thursday and vomited a little but no progress. She was like that overnight, and then into Friday.
So, we decided to take her to the vet on friday at mid day, for a check in just to make sure we were safe. Dr Thoreson from Klahaya advised we did a c-section, and it was the right call. Brinn was a little dehydrated and her uterus wasn’t working as it should to push the puppies down the canal.
Instead we have 2 healthy boys and a healthy mama – this is what the goal is. We are home safe and sound with these precious little ones.
Daisy’s sweet little beagle baby is thriving – as a solo pup he gets all of the milk and today he is over a 1lb meaning he has put on almost 6 oz since Friday. <3 I am not complaining one little bit – and neither is he – LOL>
Here are his first official photos – his name was chosen by Daisy’s “girl” and he is called Caspian from the Narnia series.
Sorry we missed a week of photos – it’s been a little busy around here – good busy, but busy none the less 🙂
Ivy has been a super mommy to her 7 babies and now that she is weaned, has gone home to her forever home with her dog mom Echo and her human family. We already miss her so much, but we know they missed her too.
The babies are doing great – the weather here in the PNW has been warm allowing for lots of outdoor playtime and exploration. They are getting more confident and we just love their little emerging personalities.
Enjoy their photos – taken outside. They didn’t really want to pose today – more wanted to head off on an adventure but I managed photos of them all.
Trillium will be available to a local Seattle area home, where they would be willing to keep him in tact for an extra year or so (till 4), and allow me to show him to his CH title. I offer a “thank you” discount for this arrangement/partnership. If you want to learn more about what that entails, or get references from a family who has done this, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Girl 1: “Blossom” (Has a “c” shape on her butt
Girl 2: “Iris” (Has a line between her shoulder blades)
Girl 3: “Tulip” (Has a thin line across her hips)
Girl 4: “Primrose” (No white marks on back or hips)
Boy 1: “Crocus” (Has an “L” shape on his neck)
Boy 2: “Trillium” (Has Thicker collar with a black dot in center)
We were a little disappointed that Daisy’s X-ray showed just 1 puppy. We decided that instead of jumping straight to a C section, we would let her try and have it naturally and if there was signs of problems we would take her in for surgery.
She had a restless night on Thursday and Friday morning, despite eating a full breakfast, it looked like labor was in full force. I watched her on the camera so I wouldn’t disturb her, and around 9:15am she started to contract more deeply.
I sat with her and she would push a little and then sleep a little. Around 10:30, with no real progression happening I contacted my vet who said we should come in at 12:30 for a c section.
My husband joined me just in case something happened while we were driving. We sat in the car waiting for the clinic to be ready for us. Around 1pm, we were surprised by a head appearing and we were rushed into a clean clinic room where Daisy delivered her baby safe and sound. All 10.9oz of him. A healthy baby boy strong and bright.
We then took Daisy home, and she has settled in beautifully with her little one. She was a wonderful momma last time and it looks like we will be lucky enough again this time.
They are healthy and strong and this week we took them outside into our safe puppy area for a little time to explore. They were not quite sure at first but quickly realized that there were so many things to smells and see.
They are using the potty box about 50% of the time (honesty moment :P) and eating 3 meals a day. Mama Cleo loves her babies and now sees them as playmates rather than her babies and so she will get to back to her forever home where she is pampered and loved (and even has an instagram account @Cleo_thebeagle_ig)
Enjoy the photos of them from this week. There will not be any official photos for the next few weeks as they are going on a road trip on Wednesday to Spokane where they will live for a couple of weeks with co-breeder Malia so she can enjoy raising a litter for a little bit.
Boy 1: “Frog”
Boy 2: “Toad”
Boy 3: Shoulder collar with a notch taken out – “Bass”
Malia, Dolly, Ruthie and I went up to the Lynden Dog shows for the Mt Baker/Bell Vernon cluster. It was a blustery and cold weekend and we huddled in my trailer a lot. We helped out at fastcat, and froze a little but also had a blast running record numbers of dogs each day in between our ring times.
We took these dogs:
Nick – MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want for Christmas – bred and owned by Sarah Sweetman, Mike and Karen Kurztner
Savannah – GCHB Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Peachy – Bred by Sarah Sweetman, Mike and Karen Kurtzner, and owned by Malia Throop & Sarah Sweetman
Lyric – Joyful Noise N Kazuri’s Sound of Sunshine – bred by Sarah Sweetman & Dolly Stearns and owned by Dolly Stearns and Ruthie Tesky
Beacon – Kazuri N Joyful Noise Sunshine Of Your Love – bred and owned by Sarah Sweetman & Dolly Stearns
Chase – Kazuri’s Chasin’ The Dream – bred by Sarah Sweetman, Mike and Karen Kurztner and owned by Sarah Sweetman & The Neissen family
Lucy – GCH Wilderness You Can’t Take My Sass – bred by Cheyenne Wohlschlegel & Diana Cazier, owned by Malia Throop & Sarah Sweetman. She only showed the last day as we accidently entered her as a non champion and we didnt want to steal points from anyone else
~~~~ we took a few dogs 🙂 haha ~~~
On Friday in 15s BOV/OH. In 13s, Lyric went BOV from the Bred-By Puppy class and on to an OH Group 4. Beacon made his show debut and took it all in his stride.
On Saturday in 15s, Nick went BOV and OH Group 3. In 13s, Savannah went BOV/OH and Beacon went wd/bow for his first point!
On Sunday in 15s, Nick went BOV/OH and onto OH Hound group1 and Reserve Best In Show OH!! Chase went WD.In 13s, Lyric (Joyful Noise N Kazuri’s Sound of Sunshine) went BOV and onto the regular group 2.
On Monday in 15s, Nick went BOS/BOVOH and onto OH Hound group1 and Reserve Best In Show OH!! Chase went WD/BOW for his final points so he is (pending AKC) a new Champion! In 13s, Beacon went BOV and Lyric went BOVOH.
Thank you to judges Mrs. Rosalind Kramer, Mrs Judith A Brown, Mrs. Pamela B Peat, Mr David J Peat and Mrs. Kathleen J Brock for these wins
