Lola!!

On friday, Lola's special present arrived from California. We went to the vets as soon as we got the call. Lola was artificially inseminated on friday! She has another appointment on sunday at 9 am to be inseminated again by our vet. Our fingers are crossed that we have a successful breeding! We should know for sure in about a month.

We have 2 puppies here still. Storm who is still looking for his new home, and Fudgie, who we are keeping for her owners until they are back from vacation. They are like partners in crime. You don't see one without the other! They are doing so well with their house training too. We haven't had accidents at night time for weeks, and during the day it is the same thing. We had an accident yesterday, but that was my fault completely. I saw Storm get up from his nap but I just wanted to finish folding the last bit of laundry...well he gave me his warning, and I ignored it! Darn!

We just had a family cancel on one of Molly's puppies. The owners just got a brand new job posting onboard a ship, and she doesn't think it is fair to the puppy to be away for the first few months. She will now be taking a puppy next fall. In the meantime, this beautiful chocolate boy is now available! We have been calling him Benji.

Yeah!!! I just realized that we finally get to pick up our patio set today! I was very picky when it came to finding one I liked. I didn't want chairs with cushions or a glass table...it's practically taken us all summer to find it! We found a set with a tile table top, and matching chairs with no cushions!! I'm just not diligent enough to keep the cushions out of the rain, put them in a storage box when we are done etc...not me at all!

one less big dog...

Mowgley went home today. His family was very happy to see him, and Mowgley had an equally happy reaction to seeing them! It was very fun having him here. He was no problem at all. We had a rotation system going on between him and the girls in heat so that there were no accidents. That's all we needed! e definitely enjoyed staying here and playing with all of his girlfriends though!

We had to cancel the vet appointment on tuesday, and it was rescheduled for this morning at 8 am. Mowgley had his OFA hips, elbows and thyroid testing. Missy and Mona came for their annual vaccinations. Everyone was great.

Missy weighed 43 lbs, and Mona weighed 34 lbs. Mowgley was 37 lbs. Right in the middle.

Lola had her progesterone test on monday, and we are now having her AI'd on friday, saturday and monday. The weekend makes everything difficult but oh well. Fingers are crossed that we have puppies! We have done 3 AI's before...we are 2 for 3 so far. Ginger has been AI'd twice, and we only got 3 puppies one time, none the second, and Blaze has been AI'd and we got 8 puppies. I prefer natural matings as does my mom. We are both old school apparently. But that seems to be the best success for us. Our dogs always get bred that way!

I trimmed Missy's face up today...made a little mistake so she looks a little odd. I took too much off from the hair under her eyes. I don't know why I went that far. Scissor happy I guess. Oh well, it will grow back. At least she can see us now! I trimmed her beard too because I don't like a big drippy wet beard. It looks cleaner this way.

getting ready for Lola!

Today Lola went in and had progesterone testing done. We are trying to determine the best day for artificial semination. We will get the results tomorrow.

Tomorrow I am going back to the vet for Mowgley's OFA thyroid testing. Missy and Mona are also coming with me to get their yearly vaccinations. I should just sleep in the vet's parking lot with how often I am there! My mom is taking in a litter of puppies tomorrow to be spayed and neutered so she will be there too.

getting a good nights sleep....

I think it's impossible! On Friday night Jake went to bed and took all of the dogs with him. Because he works nights, he goes to sleep around 7 or 8pm. We've been trying to organize a new doggy schedule because normally I bring them all to bed around 10 or 11pm and then they all jump on him and wake him up! So this time he took them to bed, and I came later. First his alarm went off at 12 am...I hear that, and I hear the snooze button every time it goes off! The dogs however don't care because it is still dark out and on their watch, that means sleeping time. Like an hour later I woke up because Mona started puking up a cloth. How wonderful! Then around 4:00 am Missy decided that she would start kicking me in the back while she stretched out beside me. Finally, all was quiet until 6:30 am when the 4 bedroom dogs decided that it was time to get up. Their wake plan is so much fun. I wake up because 2 dogs are lying right on top of me, 1 is staring right at me, and the other is licking me in the face. Uuuuggghhhhh!

It's ironic...friday night was the only night that Mona didn't sneak a toy into the bedroom and start squeaking it at all hours of the night! A welcomed relief.

Saturday was an extremely busy day for us. We had 2 of Jersey's puppies and 1 of Molly's puppies go home. I also hosted a tupperware party with friends and family. All of the boys went golfing in the rain for the day! It was definitely early to bed for Jake and I. Mona slept in between us on my pillow and Missy at our feet. Maggie and Mowgley on their dog beds. Everyone was surprisingly quiet until morning....6:49 am!

This evening we are going to my cousin Michael's birthday party.

I took these photos 2 days ago of Storm (Jersey and Mickey's cream boy). He had just had a bath. What a cutie!

fun times with the dogs!

Everyday here is like taking your dog to the dog park and having him meet his buddies. Our dog park is our back yard, and our doodles and Panda all love each other. They play the same games and never get tired of it. Occasionally lying down in the pool, and always trying to steal the kongs and squeaky toys from one another. Lola just likes to run around the yard squeaking them to drive the others nuts. Mowgley is obsessing over Panda. She's not even in heat but that's the girl he likes the best! The oddball for sure.

This morning I took Java to the airport for her flight to Timmins. She didn't let out one peep when I had to put her in the crate and send her off with the airport staff. What a great puppy! We are now down to only 4 puppies here. 2 more leave on saturday morning.

Our bedroom is now the dog's room. It is funny how things change. When I met Jake, he was adamant about NO dogs in the bedroom. Maggie however, had been sleeping on my bed since she was just a few weeks old! She's going to be 7 this fall. I would not kick her out of the bedroom, so we compromised and I bought her a blue bed, which we call her throne. A few months after Jake and I got married, he thought that Mona would be so cute sleeping in the bedroom too, and she's small! So Mona joined us. She slept either at my head or on my feet. And about a month ago, Jake gave me the sad puppy dog look to bring his Missy into the bedroom too. Missy has not slept one minute on the floor and takes up a lot of the bed space and is usually cuddling with Jake (she is seriously attached at the hip to him). Now Mowgley is visiting and his guardian mom told me that he sleeps in the bedroom and she brought his blanket and pillow with him. Somehow we have made room for a 4th in there. The room is 10' x 10'. And we have a double bed, armoire, shelving unit, big dresser, nightstand, storage bench and a laundry hamper. The room is packed! Now put 2 people, 4 dogs, and all of the dog beds, pillows and toys in there (sometimes Mona squeaks the toys in the night). I can't tell you how many times I've woken up with a hard kong toy and a marrow bone underneath my pillow. Such a wonderful sleep! The dog's are so content though that when Jake gets up for work every night around 12:30-1:00am, they aren't getting up or moving for anything!

My goal is to have Panda in our room once we can fully trust her. She is still a puppy and always trys to chew our comforter or pillows! Mackenzie and Lola are quite content in their massive crate together though. We tried to leave them out of it and have them sleep in the living room, but they paced and paced and kept scratching to open their crate door. I woke up one night to whining, and there they were...sitting infront of their crate trying to get in it! Whatever floats your boat I guess! Wow this is a novel...I better get back to letting the dogs all out before bedtime.

back in business!

The phones are working now! As it turns out, our phones got zapped in the lightning storm on sunday night. We figured that, but when we went out and bought new ones, they weren't working either. So we called Bell. They came out and found out that our filters were also zapped and useless. Oh well, it's all fixed now.

Well, our house has definitely been nutty these past few days. Yesterday the doggie roll call was...

Maggie, Mackenzie, Lola, Missy, Mona, Panda....all the regulars.

Plus, we had Sanka here for babysitting, and Mowgley came for babysitting as well...oh and we have 5 puppies here too still! Today Sanka left with his family. He was so happy to see them again!

And because Mackenzie and Lola have to do everything together, now Mackenzie is in heat! So we have Mack and Lola in heat, and Mowgley here who is not neutered. And none of them are dating this time around. So this should be fun!

We haven't seen Mowgley since December, and my has he changed! He is gorgeous! He used to have a white face, brown body...now he's all white! Considered a lavender color, which is even lighter than parchment.

Mowgley as a younger puppy...

And Mowgley now...

And this was Mona this morning...trying to pretend that she didn't rip up a toy, but we see the evidence!

Tomorrow, Java (one of Jersey's puppies) is flying to Timmins, Ontario. The family is finally going to meet their little girl!

Today also, Jake took our truck in for new tires. Now he doesn't have to put air in one of the tires every single day! It was getting rediculous, and definitely a priority on the list of things that need to be done. He is going to show those tires off to everyone now! I can just see it!

phones are down!

I still have access to email, but my phones are down. Could be due to the storm we had last night. Until then, we have no phone service.

3 puppies have gone home!

We wish them well in their new homes...Carma, Harvey and Charlie. I know that there families will enjoy them just like we have! Tomorrow Ava will go home.

Today Jake completed 90% of our side doggy yard. Since moving the fence on one side, we had to move all of our 'dog patio' stones over. The puppies like to get in the way when stuff like that is going on. Always curious. But our big dogs have seen it all happen before and they are content to watch. Occasionally bringing the ball to Jake for fetch. The simple life of a dog!

I am mostly done my tutoring for the summer. Just a few of my families are requesting tutoring during the summer. The rest are starting up again in the fall. It is a nice break for me too!

Finally Lola is in heat! Only 2 months late! Dogs definitely have their own time. All it took was a nice visit at my mom's house with JuJu who is also in heat. She has only been there for 3 days too! Now comes the tricky part...we are doing artificial insemination with a dog who is in California. We have to do progesterone testing to see when exactly is the right day for AI. It is all about timing now. And hopefully, we will have puppies in about 10 weeks!

Lola.

And her intended beau Charlie.

puppies are doing well!

The puppies had a really great day today. They all took a nice swim in the water bowl! How wonderful! We have water lovers for sure! They are having their little nap this evening, and will get their final meal of the day later on. When it is hot outside, they don't eat in the afternoon, so we move our feedings to later in the night. That is very normal for a litter of puppies...and also our adult dogs are the very same! But everyone likes to go for a nice dip in the kiddie pool in the middle of the day.

Frustrations...

Today was a really long day. Jake got a call from my dad last night asking if he could work today...well today started at 3:30 am for my dad and Jake! He got home at 9:30 pm! Talk about a long work day. I've been at home with the doggies all day. For the past 3 hours I've been going over course registration for the fall. I'm going back to university to get my bachelors of education. It will be a long commute for me, which I have tried and tried not to make every day, but no matter which way I put my classes, I still have to go to London every day! I must say...Western has the worst website to follow. When I went to Guelph, it was much easier to find my way around their website and pick courses. There is 3 different spots to sign in online at Western, and they still are sending emails to my Guelph account! It's rediculous. I called them on the phone a few weeks ago and even told them that they have the most rediculous system for students. They haven't even sent me a bill yet, but they tell you it has to be paid in August! You would think that is the first thing that they would send you! It is just soooo frustrating.

Well...if you have gotten this far, let me just tell you that the puppies are now fast asleep. They rebounded from their spays/neuters just like champs. No one felt it today, and they were all running around like normal. Nothing slows these puppies down!

Tomorrow I am going to my mom's to take photos of all of her puppies. Lola is going to come with me and stay at my moms for a few days. Hopefully this will bring her into heat! She is way over due! It usually helps if she is around other dogs in heat, and my mom has 1 girl in heat so hopefully she can help Lola!

puppy pick ups...

Jersey's puppies are at the vet right now getting spayed/neutered. They all just sat on the seat for the drive over there. I will probably pick them up around 1:00. It seems like it is going to rain today...we will just have to wait and see!

I wanted to start scheduling puppy pick up times for this weekend for Jersey's puppies. Please email me when you would like to come and take home your puppy. I have to make flight arrangements for Java. She will be flying out sometime next week.

We are babysitting one of Mackenzie's puppies named Sanka. Boy he is big! He is being very gentle with all of the puppies....he saves his rough housing for Panda!

back from the cottage!

What a relaxing weekend! I don't like to put a lot of sun screen on so I always pay for it with a sun burn. But it was a great weekend spent with friends.

The dogs were all happy to see us, wagging their tails and competing for tummy rubs as soon as we got in the door. Everyone is great. The couple of puppies that weren't feeling so good last week are all back to normal, which is great!

Jersey's puppies at 6 1/2 weeks old!

Male 1 - AVAILABLE

Male 2 - AVAILABLE

"Harvey" (male 3)

Female 1

Female 2

"Daisy" (female 3)

"Java" (female 4)

Female 5 - AVAILABLE

Female 6

time to celebrate!!!

Whenever we take our dogs in for their testing, it is always scary! Just scary to think that they might not make the cut for breeding, and then they will have to be retired young. We just got our OFA hip and elbow results back for a few of our up and coming girls. They previously had their eyes tested and all clear, so this was just one more hurdle for them!

Meet Cola. Dreamer's Coca-Cola. She turns 1 on August 5th. Cola has OFA hips GOOD, and elbows NORMAL!

Meet JuJu. JuJu will turn 1 on July 27th. Her registered name is Dreamer's Tiny Dancer. She has OFA GOOD hips, and NORMAL elbows!

And Hershey was also tested. Dreamer's Hershey Kiss. She was born on February 12th, and just got her preliminaries done. OFA GOOD for her hips!!

A big weight is lifted from my shoulders! Pheeeewwww! I also didn't mean to alarm anyone yesterday about the few puppies that weren't feeling so good. They are doing much better now, eating some food. We are starting to see more solid poops as well. As a breeder, it's all about how good the poop looks! Kindof gross, but we all compare!

We are heading to my friend's cottage for the weekend. My sister Haley is watching our dogs and puppies for us. They know and love her so it is much easier to leave them. I'm going to try and do a double post tonight, taking pictures of Jersey's puppies now. If not, they will be posted in the morning before we leave.

sorry no pictures today...

It has been a very busy hot day. We need central air!

We have a couple of puppies that aren't feeling so well. Molly's puppies are a little under the weather so we are keeping a close eye on them. Sometimes this does happen after vaccines, driving in the car, it being so hot...everything is just stressful. I am confident that they will be back to their normal selves in a few days. For now we are just babying them right up!

Jersey's puppies are all soaking wet and dirty from spending the day running in the pool, sleeping in the house, jumping in the water dishes. My floors are a mess!

Well, I'm off to bed, because I will be up at 5 am taking Blaze's puppy to the airport! She is flying to her new home in North Carolina. We will miss her!

how to keep cool...puppy style!

Today all of the puppies went to the vets for their 1st vet check and vaccines. They were also microchipped today. Everyone did so well. They drove to the vets by just sitting on the back seat...no one was car sick or had an accident (thank goodness because that would have been gross!).

Blaze's girl weighs 12 lbs 7 ounces!

When we came home the puppies showed me how they keep cool!

The bricks are very cool!

But wait...why are they so wet???

Do you see the bubbles?! Yes...she is asleep in there. It gives a new meaning to beating the heat! This is our water girl 100%. She is always in the water dish.

even hotter than yesterday!

Just trying to keep the dogs and puppies comfortable is a chore! The dogs had their kiddy pool all filled up again and everyone was running through it...even the puppies! They were loving it! So nice and cool.

Tomorrow I will load everyone up in the car for their 1st vaccines. I am meeting my mom at the vets too because Molly's babies will be there. We always have a competition to see who has the biggest puppies! I won last time...well, I always win lol! This time though I know that I'm going to lose. I saw Molly's puppies on thursday and they are bigger than mine! Darn!

On sunday afternoon we had a family over to visit with their puppy! I wanted to share a picture of Andrea with her puppy named Charlie! He looks so content just sitting there!

a hot sunday afternoon!

Wow today was hot! The dogs and puppies didn't want to do anything this afternoon. Just sleep inside the house where it is cool.

Yesterday Jersey's family came to pick her up. If anyone questions whether or not the dog will remember the guardian family...I can assure you that they always remember! Jersey was sooo excited to see her family. She jumped all over them! It was great to meet all of Jersey's family! They drove a long way and got to visit with all of the puppies before leaving with Jersey.

The puppies have their vet visit on tuesday. They will be getting their 1st set of shots.

happy belated Canada Day!

Yesterday was a great day of visiting with family and friends. We had a BBQ at my mom's house. It was a really busy day, but a lot of fun. While I was there I took all new photos of Molly's puppies. They are getting so big!

Male 1 - AVAILABLE

Male 2 - AVAILABLE

"Charlie" (male 3) - Adopted

Male 4 - AVAILABLE

Male 5 - AVAILABLE

Female 1 - staying with us!

Female 2 - AVAILABLE

Female 3 - staying with us!

They are sooo adorable! I brought Charlie home with us and one of his sisters (female 1). They are hanging out with Jersey's puppies who are just a few days younger. They caught on quickly to life here. I think that I will call Female 1 Macie. Thank-you everyone for the name suggestions!

We also picked up our little chocolate male puppy named Mister. Mister flew all the way from Nova Scotia. I know that his guardian family is anxious to get their hands on him so that Milo can have a buddy! Mister acts like he has been here forever.