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5 June 2013

Birthday swim & romp

Two puppies, Elsie (Miss Yellow) and Charlie (Mr Black formerly known as "Tunder") from our 2011 Brick-Miska litter met up today for a walk and swim at Charlie's place after almost two years apart.  They just celebrated their 2nd birthday on May 31.  They were accompanied by their mother, Miska, and big sister, Diva (born 2008) who will also be celebrating their birthdays later this month.  A great time was had by all.  Following their romp and swim, they were treated to home made mini-banana muffins.  Yum!


Pretty Elsie

Handsome Charlie




Elsie's creating the splash while Charlie & Diva swim in tandem

Charlie

Group Photos
Charlie to Diva, "Can you keep a secret?"  L-R  Elsie, Diva, Charlie & Mama Miska

L-R  Elsie, Mama Miska, Diva & Charlie

26 August 2008

Swim time

Green & Yellow puppies (gotta get names for these 2!) the two remaining pups here accompanied Tyro to aquatherapy. After Tyro was done, Nicky Snook took our pups, one by one, into the heated pool for a short "swim". True to form, the female pup was more relaxed and confident even though Green doesn't hesitate to jump into and wade around in the kiddy wading pool we have set up outdoors.

I can't yet decide which of these two pups to keep. Both have wonderful conformation and temperaments. Some days I lean to Green because I love the boys and of course, I want a boy who will be just like my Sasha (he's the maternal grandfather). On the other hand, I also love Yellow as she seems a lot like her mother, Miska, and is full of confidence and is likely to be a good hunter with even better conformation than Miska. She's smart, quiet in her crate, and just lovely. But I am not interested nor have the energy to do much more breeding in future (except perhaps 1 more litter from Miska), so why keep Yellow? I would like Yellow to remain intact because she represents three lovely lines coming together that are unique here in North America (Australian, British and American). And if I don't breed her, perhaps I could take one of her pups in future. Some people say keep both but neither is that a good idea for the pups nor for our family. Decisions, decisions, decisions.