Happy Holidays!

I trust that everyone had an enjoyable holiday with family and friends! It was Tristan's first christmas and he was (as always!) the center of attention. He even unwrapped some of his presents! Of course the paper was often more interesting than the gift, but that didn't bother us! Jake and I got a video camera for christmas from my mom and it was the first gift to be opened. They had it all charged up and ready to go so we captured his first christmas on video!

The dogs and puppies are all doing great! Remi is now back with her guardian family and we are enjoying her little babies! Mackenzie's puppies barely move they are so fat. I hope that everyone saw their photos posted on the website. I didn't get a chance to post them here as well. Next time I will.

I am often asked how many dogs we have now so here is a roll call!
Maggie (spayed labradoodle who turned 8 in November)
Mona (3 years)
Missy (3 1/2 years)
Lola (4 years)
Mackenzie (4 years)
Jersey (4 1/2 years)
Miami (6 months)
Macie ( 1 1/2 years)

And the extras...we are babysitting Charlie, and we also have Remi's 8 puppies and Mackenzie's 9 puppies. All of our dogs HATE this weather. Why won't the ground freeze? I won't even ask for snow...just freeze the ground please! Everything is such a mess! The yards are so muddy, the dogs are so muddy, my house is a mess!

I still laugh when people say that they have a small house so they can only have a small dog. For those of you who have been to my house you can say that it is definitely small. One floor...1000 sq. ft. And my dogs are NOT little!

Remi's puppies!

Here are some new pictures that I took today of Remi's puppies! 

JuJu's puppies

Last night JuJu had her puppies. She did not follow the typical labor patterns. Normally we know that a dog is close to delivering because they won't eat breakfast that morning. Not JuJu... My mom fed JuJu and put her on the deck to go to the washroom. A few minutes later my brother Gregory runs upstairs yelling "what is on the deck?" My mom says "relax it's just JuJu and a few friends going to the washroom". Gregory heard some crying and thought that it was a cat or something. Turns out...JuJu went outside and popped out a puppy! Right after she ate a big meal! Luckily the puppy was fine and JuJu had no further troubles delivering the rest of the indoors! In total she had 5 puppies - 2 chocolate males, 1 chocolate female, 1 apricot female, and 1 chocolate phantom female.

I am a little behind in photos of Remi and Mackenzie's puppies. Thanks for your patience...they will be taken and put up either wednesday night or thursday. There are just not enough hours in a day!

Yesterday was Tristan's half birthday. Yes I like to mark half birthdays! He was 6 months old! Today we were at the doctors for his 6 month needle and checkup. He didn't even cry when he got his little needle. The porker weighed 15 lbs 7 oz and was 26.5 inches long! Such a big difference from his 5 lb birth weight! Here are some pictures from yesterday!

Mackenzie's babies!

The last few days have just run all together. No sleep is terrible!

Mackenzie had a very very long delivery. First pup came just before 10pm on wednesday night, with the 9th one being born at 9:20am thursday morning. All puppies were doing well and Mackenzie remains probably the best mom we've ever had. She would never lay down with one underneath her, and we never have to rescue one from behind her. She maneuvers herself just so, and makes sure all puppies are in the proper spots. It really is quite neat to watch her. I ended up going to bed at 6am on thursday morning and Jake took over. Of course the baby didn't want to sleep in, so he got up at 8am. And the day began...

Late thursday evening Mackenzie was really restless and then I saw her push again. It had been hours since the last puppy was born, and all of a sudden out pops another puppy around 11:30pm. We were able to revive the puppy and Jake stayed up through the night to try to get her to nurse and keep warm, but it wasn't meant to be.

So we have 9 healthy puppies. There are 5 girls and 4 boys. We were surprised by the fleece coats in the litter!

going to be a long night!

We are up with Mackenzie! This is the 3rd day of her not eating and 'nesting' - basically being in labor. She just had her 1st puppy! She is so large too she hasn't been able to get up without help today. In just a few hours she will be much thinner and able to actually walk around. I will post tomorrow with the finally tally.

My guess was 9 puppies, and Jake guessed 10. We shall see who wins...

new Tristan pictures too!

Remi's new puppy pictures!