Best Friends

Rose and Serendipity have become best friends. We need to find a guardian home for Serendipity soon before I can't bear to give this little girl up!

Going on a drive!

Let's all pile in the car and run errands together!

Left to right adult dogs: down in front is Rose (Cassie's daughter); standing in back is Cassie; down in center is Whimsey; standing on the far right is Spanky. Whimsey and Spanky are the parents of the puppies in the crate.

Keep Away!

What a great game of keep away today!

Eight Weeks Old!

What a delightful litter this has been! Puppies are going home this week--we'll certainly miss this bunch. They have been named by their new families--Pink girl is St. Remy, Green girl is Harper Lee and Blue boy is Spenser. Purple girl is staying with us in our program. We've named her Serendipity--call name Seri. Now to find the perfect guardian home for her!

Fun Outside!

Can I help?

Pink girl was positive I needed help unloading the dishwasher....

Seven weeks old!

Welcome Home--We've Missed You!

    Gone for three hours and this is my welcome home--I feel so loved!

Six weeks old...another week has flown by!

A butterfly....or is it reverse spooning....

Whimsey and Rose

A comfy snuggle....

Dibs on the water dish....

You never know when you might wake up thirsty...yup, I'm thirsty.

See my genius at work...didn't even have to get up.
Yup, lean over, get a drink, back to sleep...hardly moved a muscle.

Five weeks old!

Oh my, what darling babies!

WOW!

Just WOW! Can't believe how much these babies have grown.

eat, sleep, play, potty, sleep some more

Say Cheese!

Four weeks old! This is the easiest litter to photograph--I rarely can take puppy pics by myself. I usually need an extra set of hands to position puppies and hold them still, but this group does exactly what I tell them to do--sit, wait, stay, look up....say cheese!

When did you get here?

The puppies have become very aware of us in the last few days--they want us to interact with them!

And--it's kind of funny, but I realized in every video I post, the washer and dryer are going in the background :) The puppies are in our kitchen next to the laundry area--just shows that puppies create constant laundry....

Grand children are great puppy socializers!

We had fun with our visitors here this weekend! The puppies got lots of great socializing and handling. The puppies are really starting to wake up now--they look at our faces, bark at us for attention, lick our faces when we lean down to them. They change so fast--it is truly amazing!

Litter Box Training!

We put the litter box in the puppy area two days ago--and I found Pink girl in the box this morning!! This is the stage when the puppies start to get messy--mama dogs begin to lose interest in cleaning up after the puppies at about this time, so it falls to us to take on that chore. We leave potty in the litter box so the puppies know by smell to potty there. We change the bedding multiple times a day to keep everywhere else smelling fresh. In a week or two, the puppies will be using the litter box 80-90% of the time--it never ceases to amaze me how much this process is driven by inborn instincts. The puppies just know to keep their sleep and play area clean. I know I say it all the time, but.....amazing!