Elwha Border Terrier puppies, etc.: They lost something!

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

They lost something!

No, not weight! They are gaining THAT like champs!
Yesterday they lost their dew claws. How does one do that?!!! Carefully and without anything but a little squeak for each one. They all came through with flying colors!
Just a note on the future. Francy will be coming into heat in the next month or so and will be bred to Spencer for my first US/British litter. I am hoping for a very nice set of show puppies for me and for the people who want the prettiest companion dog they can imagine. This is an exciting venture.
Francy has all of her health tests done and passed. Spencer starts his on Saturday. He'll get them all quite soon.
This weekend Mai, Spencer, and Pip will be in the dog shows in Sequim. Mai received her first major win a few weekends ago in Coeur d'Alene, ID. Pip has both her majors. Spencer got a point or more in Massachusetts after the National Specialty in which he wasn't entered. He received a Group 4 from the classes in that show in Bellingham, MA. He beat an already champion beautiful bitch that floored me on how lovely she is and went on to get the Group 4 even though he was hot and not used to the heat and humidity of Massachusetts. The judge told Carole that she would have given him a "much higher placement" in the Group if he had been more up, that she loved him!
The puppies will soon look like little beached whales the way they are eating and the way Zinger is taking care of them. She is a natural born mama! I'll try to get pictures this weekend, meanwhile visit Betty's blog!

Sorry, but I was busy de-dew clawing babies yesterday and didn't get pictures. Here is a picture of ball hound Spencer with his new craze, the Jolly Ball. He moans he is so excited by it. I thought he was going to try to stay outside all night last night playing with it. He was making so much noise the coyotes would most certainly have come to check out what was so exciting. I'm very glad that he came in!