She gained an entire ounce yesterday!!!!

The peanut is growing!!!!  She is more independent and is letting the bulldozers knock her off the milk less often now.  Kathleen, the angel, is plugging her in, still, very often, and together they are creating a SWEET, vibrant little girl.  Yippeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

The puppies are all growing and are beautiful, shiny pups, as is normal.  They should open their eyes on Sunday.  Kathleen will be in Bellingham then and I keep hearing her tell them to WAIT for her to come back to open their eyes!  Nature will do what it wants!  I think that Kathleen is trying to talk me into letting her take them home for the weekend.  She is telling me how much she will miss them!

Sunny day here today.  Not too cold.

Will try to get some pictures this weekend and put them on on Monday. 

This is Levi, the daddy of this litter of nine.  Isn't he gorgeous?!!!!

Have fun watching the Super Bowl, if you have a TV.  I don't, so I will just have to snuggle babies!!!!  Life is tough sometimes....

The Curmudgeon

Piglets

Nine puppies eating at once!

Look at those heads!!!!

Five blues, four grizzles.

Three blue boys.

Tired yet of looking at puppies guzzling milk?

They ARE cute.  And squeaky.

The little girl.  Now 7.9 oz. at day ten!  Kathleen is the Mother Teresa of TINY puppies!

Little girl, we call "Peanut", is growing.  She has true SPUNK!!! 
The little boy, Gaia, is going to town too.  All is well in Curmudgeonville.
Will give updates as I can.
Hip, hip, hooray!
c

Eight days

Well, they were a week old yesterday.  Yippeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!  The tiny girl had doubled her weight by this morning.  Thank goodness she is still sucking and getting better at it all the time.  Kathleen and I went to bed at 8:00 PM last night.  We get up every hour or so, so we had to have extra time in bed.  I literally fell asleep in the office yesterday.  Too much!  Something had to give, and what gave was the evening!!!  It worked!  I feel MUCH better today.

I know.  You want pictures!  I can't seem to find the pictures I'm downloading.  Rats! 

The puppies are all different sizes and growing and healthy.  Thank goodness.

The pictures will come when I can get them to go onto my download file.  Sorry.

Curmudgeonville

Day 3

OK.  So all is well so far, unless you count the lack of sleep.  Good thing that Kathleen, my daughter, is here helping me!!!

The littlest girl has started gaining weight without supplementation.  I am very happy about that.  She is a fighter for her life.  Those little ones don't always make it because the big ones knock them off the nipples regularly.  We call them bulldozers.  The other little ones are catching up to the bigger ones.  Kathleen and I get up all through the night to hook the tiny girl back onto the nipples.  So far, so good.  She has gained an ounce.

Four puppies are grizzles, five are blues.  Daddy is a blue and Zinger's daddy was a blue. 

Sorry, but I have no pictures today.  I am going to go to the Clicker Expo in Portland for the next three days too, so no pics until I'm back.  Kathleen is kicking me out!  She is very good at plugging the baby onto the nipple.

Hang in there and keep those fingers crossed for the tiny one, now called Peanut!

From Curmudgeonville....

Zinger delivers!!!!!!!

OK.  I'm bowled over.

On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 19th, at 0200, Zinger started having her puppies.  The first one was a girl.  Yippeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!  Zinger was at Betty's and Skip's house because Lesley, visiting from England, and I had been at a Nosework conference for the weekend.  Betty had been planning on bringing Zinger to me on Monday.  Skip called at about 0206 and told me that we had had a girl.  I jumped into my clothing and into the car and was at Betty's by 0300, which is pretty darn good.  I probably looked a fright, but Betty, Zinger and Skip didn't seem to mind!  By then there were two girls!!!!!!  Double YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

By 0530 Zinger was finished delivering her brood.  Five girls... and four boys.  Yes, nine.  NINE.  In one litter.  I am blown away.  So are many of the people who have gotten a message from me announcing this.

This is what nine Border Terrier puppies looks like.  Poor Mom, although she seems very happy and contented, and is even eating a bit of food.  She is quite picky after delivering, and before delivering for at least a month, just so you know.  It takes a lot to keep her from being a skeleton at the end. 

Anyway, this is to announce that Zinger, CH Elwha The B's Knees and GCH Meadowlake Fontainebleau, Levi, have a new litter on the ground of five girls and four boys.  There is a mix of grizzles and blues.  Aren't they shiny?!!!!!  I just love to look at them at this age and drink in the look of smooth babies.  Fingers crossed that they can all get enough milk to stay healthy and active.  Two very small ones in the litter, a girl and a boy.

Stay tuned,
The Old Curmudgeon

Where in the heck have I been?!!!!!! Who knows?!!

Let's see.  I have five dogs at present, Pip, Zinger, Mai, Jeri and Bard.  Pip is my most OCD Nosework dog and has passed her NoseWork 1 and NoseWork 2 trials with flying colors, per me.  She is a lot of fun.  Zinger is ready for NW2 trialing, but is pregnant, so will most likely wait until the pups are a bit older than in ureto!  She is distractable when pg. 

Mai is a Burlap daughter from Phillip C Klosinski and is two years old.  When I get her health tests all done, she may have a litter.  She is a sweet little girl.

Jeri was born on my brother, Jerry's, birthday, May 16m 2014.  She is Elwha B Stingin' In The Rain.  Her mother is Zinger and her daddy is Burlap.  Her brother, Morse, lives with Betty and Skip.  We traded Morse for Zinger.  Bonny likes Morse a ton and their house is calmer with Morse than with Zinger.  Such is life.  Jeri and Morse both are in puppy class and NoseWork.  Morse is much more obedient than Jeri.  Just shows who is the trainer and who has been in Hawaii and lax.

The last dog is Bard, Elwha To B Or Not To Bee.  He is Zinger's full brother, and his mother is Touille and daddy is BB, from frozen sperm.  Jeri and Mai came from frozen sperm too.  Isn't technology wonderful?!!!!!!

Touille is here part time.  She goes back and forth to Bellingham with my daughter, Kathleen. She is my granddaughter's dog, Kate.  Elli goes back and forth too, so sometimes we have a passel of dogs here!

Burlap, Mai and Jeri's daddy

Tobi Juan Kenobi

Sweet Mai

BB, Bard's daddy

Kathleen's girl, Elli, Elwha's Cinderelli

Hannah Branigan's Harper with Rugby

Hawaii hale, (house), heaven

Last July, a visit to a medical school classmate in Vermont.  Such a great time.  Three of us went there to reunion with #4

Ms. Pip, Elwha's Queen B, hunting scent.  So much fun you ought to try it!!!!!

Zinger flew to Atlanta to become a mother again, and Friday was the first day that she refused her breakfast.  Her tummy feels hotter than normal too, so I think that she is going to have pups about Jan. 18th, Pip's birthday. 

This weekend was exciting.  Bryce, Zinger's puppy from July 2013, went to Eucanuba with Caleb Campbell and together they came in 4th in the Junior Handler contest.  Caleb was only one of 120 of the top junior handlers in the country to be invited to the contest and he beat all but three of the other junior handlers there.  Wonderful odds.  Really all the credit goes to Caleb, not Bryce, because the judges only judge the handler, but lots of people saw Bryce and were very impressed with him too.  Caleb does a great job!  We are very proud of him here in Port Angeles.

4 1/2 weeks old and as cute as they can be

My daughter is here and loving on these puppies to beat the band.  What's not to love?!!!!  They are extraordinarily cute and sweet.  Phil Klosinski, who owned their daddy, keeps telling me that he was as sweet as can be.  I believe it!
But, you don't want written words!  You want puppy pictures!
Francie's babies are gaining weight at a fast clip!  They are going to be sweet also!
 OK.  These will be a bit jumbled.

Zinger's litter's daddy, Burlap

Burlap winning the Best of Breed 2003 National Specialty

Zinger babies

Fat rats!!!

Francie

Can you find them all?

Getting fat fast!

Kathleen says that they look like little rats.

Nice head

Blue boy.

Zinger and the big kids.

'Nuff said.
Signing off.
Old Curmudgeon