Chester from our last litter

Here's Chester with his new puppy cut. It looks like he is going to lighten-up quite a bit. He still awfully cute!

Opal's & Cosmo's litter - two weeks old

Opal's litter

Ali opened her eyes today and I took this picture but I had too much light behind her. Will redo it after I get my chores done for the day.

Opal's litter

Everyone has doubled their birthweight including Fred who was the slowest but who is catching up. Their weights are:

1. Angel 360 grams
2. Oliver 435
3. Fred 252
4. George 322
5. Katie 250
6. Ali 294
7. Harry 398

Their eyes should be opening any day now and I'll post new pictures then

Introducing Harry Potters Winning Hogwart Team

Position: Name:

1. Keeper Oliver Wood - Oli
2. Center Chaser Angelina Johnson - Agni
3. Outside Chaser Katie Bell - Katie
4. Outside Chaser Alicia Spnnet - Ali
5. Blind Side Beater Fred Weasley - Fred
6. Open Side Beater George Weasley - George
7. Seeker Harry Potter - Harry

Individual pictures will come later today.

They're here!

Four boys and three girls - pictures tomorrow!

The puppies are growing

The weights for today are:
1. Deanna - 210 grams/7.4 oz (rounded off)
2. Lusa - 216 grams/7.6 oz (rounded off)
3. Nannie - 220 grams/7.8 oz (rounded off)
4. Cole - 210 grams/7.4(rounded off)
5. Eddie - 238 grams/8.4(rounded off)
6. Garnett - 232 grams/8.2 (rounded off)

Meet the offspring of the Prodigal Summer - names based on a novel by Barbara Kingsolver

In birth order:

Deanna Wolfe

Lusa Naluf Landowski

Nannie Rawley

Cole Widener

Eddie Bondo

Granett Walker

The result of the Prodigal Summer - or how I named this litter

They main characters from the book Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver are

Eddie Bondo
Deanna Wolfe

Lusa Maluf Landowski
Cole Widener

Garnett Walker
Nannie Rawley

Since I don't know the personalities of the puppies as yet, girl one will be Deanna Wolfe; girl two will be Lusa Maluf Landowski; and girl three Nannie Rawley.

Boy one will be Cole Widener; boy two Eddie Bondo and boy three Garnett Walker.

Yes, I know I changed the order, but boy two just looks like Eddie more than the other two in my head, and boy three looks like Garnett because of his mustache. No logic there either because Garnett Walker doesn't have a mustache in the book. That's the fun of writing a book, or naming a litter: we can make the world the way we want it.

If you are interested in Ms. Kingsolver's novel here is an opinion piece about it:

http://www.thebookhaven.net/Z_Prodigal_Summer.html

I loved the book and I love her writing.

Hav joy,
Rita

They're here!

Here they are with weights and sex - the three girls were born first and then the three boys. You see, these boys are already polite and well trained!

Puppies, puppies, puppies

Opal's temperature this morning is 98.3

It looks like we will have puppies sometime within the next twenty-four hours!

I just had to crawl through about five feet of bushes because Opal decided she was going to go in the corner by the deck ( thank heavens the underneath side ito the deck is fenced off) where she was very, very busy digging her den. I've given her a pile of blankets to dig in, but she wants dirt!


To go to see more about Opal go to :
http://www.sonrisashavanese.ca

Hav joy,
Rita