Home at Last!

Where does the time go!  The puppies are 7 weeks old, and boy are they BUSY!
We ventured off to the Finnish Lapphund Nationals last weekend in Regina, as you know Gossip our Lappy had a litter in October and her puppies were all in the show!  I was lucky to get to show Jameson, the boy puppy owned by Mike & Laura MacDonald in Michigan.   What a great little boy, he picked up WD the first day out, and second day he took WD, BOW,  BOB & BPIB over several lovely specials in the booster sunday!  I think he's at 6 points, with that being his first day in the ring in Canada!  His litter mates, Thyme & Rowdy also did amazingly well!  Thyme picked up a WB at the National & a  Best Puppy In Group (and now has several) Rowdy also picked up WD BOW & Best Puppy at the National and Monday a Best Puppy in Group!
What a amazing weekend!  Thanks to Gloria Beaudin for deciding who Gossip should be bred to, and managing the litter so well, while i had my own at home with Lexi.

So onto the Diva & Rush babies.   I took them to work on Friday, had a visit with lots of employee's and customers, they got to spend some time outside with the noise of a busy industrial shop, and planes, trucks and sandblasting going on on top of that.   Then off to the Vets for shots, and check ups after work.  Everyone had their shots and hearts, eyes all look great!     Next morning (Saturday) Gloria & Pat came over to help with the Temperment tests, and getting the puppy fix!  Many visitors of friends, new puppy parents, and then Dale and i did some pictures to end the day!   

  Here are the boys!

And all the girls!

And were off! Canadian Nationals here we come!

So were ready to leave tomorrow morning.   Jackson, Frankie & Rush are ready for the big flight into London Ontario.  Our Good friend Brenda Campbell will pick us up at the airport, a quick trip to her house to pack and were off to Ancaster!

Ill post these pics of the babies from the weekend.  Wow how fast they have changed.   We are busy busy, eating mainly puppy food now.   Mom goes in twice a day to feed them and keep up her motherly activities.. playing with them and teaching them some manners.  :)

here they are at 4 weeks old.   The boys first

 Plain faced boy

 smudged boy

 biggest boy

 girl #1

 fancy girl

 plain faced girl

Girl #4

So far everyone is very alike, only having a few ounces difference in sizes.   Good thing their markings are very different.  I arrive home Sunday May 13 from Nationals, im sure they will change lots when im gone.  We will try to do new pics at that time.   Enjoy!

What a trooper of a Mom!

The puppies are getting cute and busy!  

 The babies are growing!  We are feeding Diva as much as we can, so she can keep up.   The babies are also eating puppy food along with the Goats Milk!  Gaining and healthy as can be!
We will do some 4 week old shots this upcoming weekend.  

The babies are doing awesome!

Well the pups are doing great, they are just over 2 weeks old and have already had their first meal on Sunday.   With that many (7) we decided to feed them a meal of mush and goats milk.  Well you can imagine what they looked like after, here are some shots of their "first time"

 This is the smallest of boy and girls, they were in there right away, which i knew would happen, these are always the 2 im worried about not getting enough!

 I think we need Diva for clean up duty!

Sometimes you just gotta go for it  All in!!!

Diva's babies have Arrived! Happy Easter

There was so much going on this week, i had it all planned out that i would drive Gossip (Our Finnish Lapphund) to Fargo ND, put her on a plane to Chicago to meet Gloria, and be shown at their "National".   Well i'd been taking Diva's temperature all week, and before i left for work Thursday am, it was REAL low! like lower than i had seen before in any pregnant ready girl.  Sigh............... a few phone calls to find other plans for Gossip and off she went with my Mom & Dad who wanted a quick trip to Fargo anyway s.    Diva was going to be pretty early, since her first due date was Sunday, and in my head her REAL due date was Tuesday.
She started her labour in the middle of the night.   At 5:40 her water broke & first puppy 40 mins later.  We were done by 9 am!  7 Babies in total!
"Diva" is a great mom, and is just the most tentative, we actually carry her out to potty so she will leave them a minute.  Proud Dad is "Rush"

 These are the 4 girls, one girl was very small but has gained huge since she was born, can barely tell

Here are the boys, there is also a small boy but he's managed awesome and is gaining along with his bigger brothers.
HAPPY EASTER everyone!

Jackson's First baby

"Skye" Cassbar's Fire & Ice had a one puppy litter, thinking she had missed, this little girl was hidden away without her owner Claudia of Amaley Shelties knowing!

This is the boy's  "Jackson's" first kid.  Can you tell?

We love this girls look!  Beautiful head and finish.   Big expectations!  Bred by Amaley Shelties.  Good luck with her!

COUNT DOWN!

We are back from the Brandon Shows Feb 17-20th.   Now the race is on to get ready for ASSA 2012!
Jackson picked up a couple more group placements, (2 - Group 3rds) thank you to Judges John Rowton & Breeder Judge Denise Cornelssen,  now he's home and can be "just a dog" for a bit before we leave for Florida.  Thank you Trina Neil for taking him in the ring for me, i had too much on my plate to show him too.
The BEST part of my weekend, was i finished each day PAIN FREE!  Still not sure if that is the cortisone shot, but wow, to be on concrete all weekend with no pain is so amazing!  :)
 
I was going to leave Jackson home, but was pep talked into bringing him after all to Florida.   We are getting so excited to be back in my favorite place ever!
Between Disney, Universal, the many parks and ASSA week, its going to be a blast.

We are hoping to have "expecting" news just before we leave, we will find out just before we fly out, if Diva is preggers.   Another one of our girls will be off to her new "guy" in the next few days, so fingers crossed on her too!

The next 10 days will be crazy, making sure house, dogs and yard is ready for us to go!   Our house sitters are gods! and move right in for us to go on this trip!

I heard over the weekend there was some new Titles on some of our Shelties.  I saw Patty R out there with her boy Juno in the novice class, taking a HIC at Brandon Shows.  Not sure if there is a new title or not.   Bev B with Sneak was out in Minneapolis area, playing USDAA and titled MAD for sure, will get more updates this week.
Nice weekend, the weather was awesome!