Plans for the Future

Now that all of the "O" Litter has gone home we can start thinking about plans for the future!  Our next litter is planned early January 2014.  Natalie (Ch. Always No Strings Attached) will be bred at that time.  Plans will be firmed up this summer.

 

Natalie (Ch Always No Strings Attached) on the move at the Dallas shows! 

3 Months Old and then there was one......

The puppies are now 3 months old and all have gone to their new homes - EXCEPT the little lavender girl who is a keeper!  We are calling her Stoli (registered name Always on the Rocks)!  Stoli still gets to see her sister Diva (Always on the Runway) who lives here in the Austin area.  AND she got to visit her brother Wyatt (Always Notorious) who lives in Kerrville for a week when Mom had a family emergency and had to leave town for awhile. Wyatt is 16 months older than Stoli but the same breeding, Bella and Tristan - and boy did they have a great time!  Stoli got to see the Doodles who live next door and meet Wyatt's best bud Ranger, a Boston Terrier.  She also got to go on a golf cart ride!  And her uncles Jager and Luke were around to keep an eye on the youngsters too!

Stoli takes a break in the bluebonnets while out on a golf cart ride!

Wyatt and Stoli exchange secrets!

Pups are 8 weeks old!

I have been delinquent in posting news and photos - Eight puppies take up a lot of time and energy!  Here are some new pics taken over the last couple of weeks.  Puppies have been to the vet for their health check and first set of shots - of course everyone LOVED them!  The kids will start going home this weekend!

How could you not love that face?  Purple boy is available to a show home!

 

Chewing on the water hose is lots of fun!!!

 

 

You go DOWN the slide silly, not up it!

 

 

Let's get Mom!!!!

 

 

Two of the girls spending some quality time together!

 

 

Who needs expensive toys when we have plastic pots to carry around!

Six weeks old today!

It is so hard to believe the babies are SIX weeks old already.  Here are some photos from the weekend!

 

Lots of room  to play and sleep when we stay in the pen!

 

 

My own King Size Bed!!!

 

 

Now - I want out NOW - not in a minute!  Westminster is on TV and I want to watch!

 

 

It's a good thing Mom bought the big bowl!

Peeking!

Peeking out of the whelping box - I don't want to miss anything!

Our first trip to the backyard!

The puppies had a big weekend with lots of company and their first trip out to the backyard.  They played and played with both human visitors and each other.  Mama Bella kept a close eye on things!

Just like the last Bella x Tristan litter these puppies are fascinated by all my empty pots!

 

 

Pups had great fun running in and out from under the climber and playing with Bella.

 

 

After the puppies eat their puppy food, Bella provides dessert!

 

Bella won't let them stray too far away in the yard - there is plenty of time for that later!

 

 

After about an hour outside the puppies are all tuckered out and ready to sleep!

Lots of excitement!

Lots of excitement and changes for the puppies the last few days!  They are now eating puppy food (softened) two times a day.  They either eat their meal in the puppy pen OR - big excitement - outside in the dog run/patio area!  Bella is not sure about them wandering around out there and tries to herd them all together but they have been pretty brave so far!  A couple even ventured out onto the rocks!  This weekend if weather is good enough I hope to take them out into the big back yard for an outing or two!  My friend Lynne is coming to visit and help with the puppies so it should be lots of fun!

We sure like our groceries!!!

 

 

It's a whole new world out here and  we were so BRAVE!!!

 

 

Back to the whelping box for fun and games and then sleep! Blue boy and Orange Boy are always "hamming it up" - they must think there is a prize for most photogenic!