Kennel Life

After a very poopy night on Sunday, many baths and cleaning out of the crates (heat does not agree with the puppies at all) the puppies are tucked in and happy as larks at the kennel. They are anxiously awaiting the 1 p.m. pick on Tuesday of their foster raisers. Again we had a ball with them and are looking forward to hearing and seeing the puppies grow.

Hula has been a little on edge watching me put all the baby toys and play equipment away. She keeps looking and then just sits and watches. I remember her doing this the last time. Hula is very happy and is enjoying being single again. She is such a doll!

And the journey ends

Our journey with the "N" litter has come to the end. We spend our last day with the puppies enjoying the outside hanging on the front porch. The puppies ran through puddles of water on the porch, dug in their water dish (sorry raisers), ate on the porch and well napped on the porch. What I want to know is WHERE DID THESE PAST 8 WEEKS GO?

We have cleaned up countless piles of poop, unbelivable amounts of pee puddles, our wet jet has gone thru two batches of batteries, we are out of laundry soap, paper towel is running very very low (scared I won't make the morning). We are down to crumbs in the food bin. Eye contact was introduced along with collar and leashes. The puppies are sleeping 7 hours in their crate (I announce that proudly). We have had many a sleepless night, whiney puppies, hot puppies, wet puppies, poopie puppies, escapees (many times over now) and would we have it any other way. NOPE.

Thank you all for watching and tuning in on a daily basis. It has been a joy and a blessing to have these puppies in our lives. Just thinking about what might be for these guys and girl just makes my heart swell with pride and joy. Our wish for the puppies is to have a very healthy, fun first year, that they learn the basics obedience with flying colors, that they find joy in daily life. That they experience things that will help them excell at their future career.

Tomorrow morning is the start of the rest of their journey, a journey that can lead them to be someone's arms, legs, helper, companinon and most of all friend. We wish you well. We will miss you greatly N litter. Make us proud.

Tiny bubbles and then some

Whatelse can you do with puppies on an beautiful afternoon. Nothing but play with bubbles. Which is exactly what we did. Only one or two of the puppies took a liking or even acknowledged the bubbles, but they had a blast out side anyways today. What a great day.

They also had more visitors today. A Co-worker of Doug's stopped by. The puppies are now overly tired and fighting going to sleep. Might be in for a long long night.

Final Visitors

We had our final visitors tonight, JT, who is part of Newman's (Mr Red) family stopped by to say hi with his girlfriend Gwen. I think Newman took a shine to Gwen because as they came out of the pen he scurried right on over to her. He is a sucker for cute girls. It was a great visit and we are so happy we got to meet both of you. Welcome to the family.

We also had a WONDERFUL pool party yesterday. The puppies spent hours outside running around the pool, splashing, dunking each other etc. You name it they did it.

As our time with the puppies comes to a quick close, we ask that you all tune in Sunday the 21st for a special goodbye from the puppies. We look forward to you seeing us on the cam.

Say Cheese

In preparation for the big photo shoot today, the sextuplets got a bath. A few loved it and few were not very pleased with me during the bath. The bathing began at 6:30 a.m. and ended around 7:30 a.m. Needless to say I think I was just as wet as they were

The photo shoot was the bomb, thank you again Michael and Angela. What a fun time and GREAT memories.

Boot Scootin Boogey

There is nothing cuter than a puppy with the major zooms. For those of you that are unfamilar with the puppies zooms it is when the puppy gets a wild hair and tucks his/her butt and runs like the wind. We had a puppy do that tonight. Doug and I just rolled on the floor with laughter. The puppy would run one way stop look around and then beat the band in the other direction. The puppy finally crashed and crashed hard for a nice long nap. I might have to find a theme song for the boot scootin boogey some day.,

Eye contact 101

Boy the day started out with a bang, we not only had 1 escapee we had 4, yes I said 4. What next, the xpen came down with no options but crating the puppies. But I am pleased to announce that they made three and four hours clean in their crates.. YEAH! They also slept 5 hours straight (ok just a little whining) last night.

Doug has been a big help with the puppies, cleaning up, playing with them and in genearl handling my moods due to lack of sleep, over extending myself etc. He has started to work eye contact with the puppies. The puppies get so excited they don't know what is happening but they are getting it. What fun. With the days dwindling away we are hoping to introduce their names and have a really good foundation on eye contact (Oh yeah I forgot, I do know who is who now, but we will save that for placement).

Last but not least tonight. Two of the puppies found the open window and thought if they worked real hard they could get out side (did I mention these puppies LOVE to be outside in the cool air, what silly puppies). Just had to capture the moment in a picture.