Finally, more pictures!

Let's see.  We went to the dog show in Bremerton today, but didn't show any dogs as there were no majors.  We did though have health tests done as we do every year at this show.  Usually they just offer CERF there, but this year they had a cardiologist  too!  Bonus!!!!  Indie and Bonnie had their hearts checked, this time by a cardiologist, and Indie, Bonnie, Kat and Touille had their eyes checked.  Everyone passed with flying colors. 
Tuesday Touille and Bonnie have their permanent hip X-rays done and Indie his official preliminary hip X-rays done.  When I took him in before he was a year old, the vet, who takes dozens of hip X-rays a week, and his tech, got more excited than I have ever seen them get.  Indie had the best hip X-rays they had EVER seen in any breed.  They were just about jumping up and down, they were so excited.  We'll see what they are like on Tuesday.  Hopefully the same.  It made me wonder if youth had anything to do with it, but that has not been my experience to date.  Keep your fingers crossed!
The babies are having fun in the kitchen now.  They are now "big kids" since they are now five weeks old today.  They play on the wobble toys, moving equipment, etc.  They play/growl/fight like the terriers they are!  They wag their tails a lot too.  They love to pile in my lap.  This is one SWEET litter, not surprisingly as Annie is so sweet and Indie is not far behind.

Puppies in the lap of love!

Janie, a head!  Sleeping, but it is a head!

Cute kid!

Mom coated by love.

more heads....

Nice, broad back skull.

At least this one is in focus!

Some of the others aren't and I can't seem to get the camera to work at the moment.  Me and technology!

They are still cute though.

I love the little tongue!

Cuddly kid with nice, broad head.

Terrorists somehow get into my side yard all the time!

Fancy that!

The Kat litter just keeps getting prettier and prettier.  Iki is now "Fancy."  Ono is still Ono, and Pip is still Pip.  I think that they will keep those names, despite Pip being a male nickname for Philip.  It means other things too, and I like some of the other connotations, even if she is a female!  Mum or Mim or Nikin is now Penny.  I am teaching them all their call names.
Annie's kids have their teeth and are starting to eat soaked kibble.  They aren't using their teeth a whole lot as they don't try to eat my toes yet.  They will.
As it gets warmer, we will go outside more.  Annie's crew are only going out when I carry them, at this point.  Pip, Ono, Fancy and Penny go out many times a day when I am home.  Nancy was here with them today and they had fun going in and out.
The spring flowers are starting to flash their colors around.  Yesssssss!  Spring HERE is beautiful. 

The First Day of Spring

Today was supposed to rock and roll, and it was supposed to be sunny and warm.  None of those things happened, but we did go outside a good bit, including one of Annie's babies in my arms. The day isn't over yet.  It IS too late to be sunny, but the laundry on the line did, for the most part, get dry.  The quake could still happen, but maybe we'll be lucky!

Ms. Pip.  Isn't she lovely?  Looks much like her mother.

This is the "Dreamcatcher."  She also looks like her mother.  She is smaller and will be lighter in color than Pip.

Ms. Brown, or Ms. B, is dominating in play with Dream.  She IS bigger after all!

Little Ms. Dream being contemplative.

Sting and Dream playing.  That Sting does love the pups and terrorizes them as well as loves them.  They do have fun, for sure.

Mead, or Sweet Nectar or Intoxicating Honey, playing on the "A frame" in the side yard.  He is adventuresome and smart and sweet all at once.  He often asks to be picked up and snuggled, then turns around and runs like a maniac.  Pretty boy.

Sting, daring one of the others to get the prize toy of the day!

Annie, being the sweet mom that she is.

Annie with her loving crew and her gourmet breakfast of scrambled eggs and $10/lb cheese, acidophilus and probiotics and Forco.  She ate it all, except for what the puppies gummed up.  Not much.  I can feel their teeth in there, but they are not out yet.

One of Annie's girls.  Sweet little thing.  The boys are much heftier.

A boy, attacking the puppies' gourmet food.They do well licking that up.

An adventure on the blanket in the living room.  They also ventured into the kitchen to be with the older puppies for a bit.  They did well too!  They are playing nicely now and like climbing on the rolling toys, etc.  They will be a smart bunch.  Right now, they are just a bit small and need time to become as spunky as the others.  They are coming along nicely though.  Sweet babies who like to be held and do lick/kiss me.  Kathleen will like that .  That is her yardstick for grading puppies.  Do they kiss?!

All of these pictures were taken today.  I don't know if I got their faces well enough for Janie, but I will keep trying.  Maybe I can remember at work to get someone to hold them for me and take pictures that way.  I have not mastered holding the puppy and taking the picture at the same time.  I have hardly managed typing!  You don't know how many mistakes I've erased!!!!
Hopefully we will have no earthquakes and no tsunamis and these guys will grow up to be one of your friends.
PS.  Elwha's Harta Gold, Dansa's "brother" earned his TD today.  That means he passed his tracking dog test.  That is something about which to be PROUD.  He and his mother have gotten him way too many to count titles, and I'm sure he will get more, as will Dansa, Stings talented sister who has a very talented mom/trainer/handler!  CONGRATULATIONS Harta and Heather, the Campbell River, BC team.  I think that Harta must have gotten over getting a puppy if he got his TD today!

Today it is raining. At least it isn't snowing.

Annie's puppies will be two weeks old tomorrow.  Poor Annie still has the squirting diarrhea and a raw bum.  I am trying all foods and all sorts of therapies on her.  Pepto Bismol, Acidophilus, cheese, no cheese, whatever she will eat, which is hit and miss.  Sometimes she will even eat dog food, sometimes only what I am eating.  Today she ate scrambled eggs for breakfast, salmon treats for lunch and dog food for dinner, but wouldn't eat any of those at any other time.  It is hard reading her mind.  All that being said, the puppies are fat and healthy.  Since they were taken a day or two early, they have not opened their eyes yet, but they seem to be fine otherwise.  I suspect they will open their eyes in a day or two.

Annie and babes.  One is too sleepy to eat!

Getting fat and roly poly!  Looks like some nice heads in that pack!

They can crawl after their mother faster than they used to be able to do that.  They latch onto the nipples faster too.  None of this fumbling around!
I keep hoping that some of these kids look like Annie's daddy, my second Border Terrier, CJ.  I can see their own daddy in some of them.  Annie has a cute face.  Maybe some of them will look like her, and she looks like her daddy!
Kat's kids are growing up.  They are running and jumping on the wobble board, jumping up onto the Bosu ball now and riding the skateboard.  They play with the toys on springs and seem to be trying to figure out why the toys wobble back and forth!  They love that crackly cat tunnel they have and run through it and the tunnel Louis made them when strung end to end.  They seem fearless at the moment and bark and growl at each other non stop in the kitchen, but have learned to be quiet at the office.  Big kids....

This always seems to be one of their favorite toys.  They learn early to bank off the wobble board.  It is loud, but fun.  These are COORDINATED dogs when they grow up.

They seem to love anything that moves better than a stationary toy.  I have seen them ride the skateboard clear across the kitchen!  One will inadvertently push while the other rides happily.  Fun, fun, fun.

I do love this age.  They continue to nurse, of course, until mom weans them, but mom doesn't for awhile.  At this age while they nurse their ears go back a certain way that shows how HAPPY they are.  It melts my heart.
Sting is playing with the Kat puppies, but every once in awhile gets a bit exuberant.  When that happens she gets to spend some crate time as she still isn't safe to be let loose in the rest of the house.
She is the athlete and is up on everything, walking along the downed tree in the yard, along the tunnels, etc.  She is amazing on the Bosu ball.  I need to start training her sit, stand, down and beg.  She takes her Star Puppy test on Tuesday.  You should see her on loose lead walking!  She does the figure 8 and will go down an entire line of cones weaving in and out and all on a loose lead.  She is a winner!
People coming this weekend to see puppies, people who want one of these.  Should be fun.
More sometime!!!!