One more puppy update! (May 31st)

Merrdith

 

Today the puppies are 9 days old.  I can’t believe how quickly the days are flying by, in a few days they will be opening their eyes.  That’s when we really get to see their personalities shine through.

Meredith, smooth, sable girl.

Mark, smooth, sable boy

Christina, smooth, tri color girl

Derek, rough, sable boy

Alex, smooth, sable boy

Izzy, our little rough girl

Have I mentioned how much I love these puppies?  

More collie puppy spam!

 Slowly making my way through the puppy pictures, to share some of our favorites.  

May 25th and 26th

It’s so hard to get anything done, I just want to watch them all day!

Catching up! (May 24th)

We are so behind on updating, but wanted to make sure everyone was doing well before sharing our puppy news. Peyton is doing great, she is recovering well from whelping her 6 babies.  The puppies are still gaining and they are getting more vocal and active.

Mark (green) Izzy (yellow)

Christina

Puppy update! (May 23rd)

The puppies are all doing great, and steadily gaining weight.  The two roughs, Derek and Izzy, are smaller than their smooth littermates, but they are still slowly gaining.

Izzy snuggling with her Mom

Mark

We love these puppies, and Peyton is being such a great Mom!

More to come…

Finally…our exciting news!

On May 22nd we welcomed our newest Winterberry collies to the family!

Peyton had 3 boys and 3 girls! (Left to right) Meet Meredith, Mark, Christina, Derek, Alex and Izzy!  Derek and Izzy are both rough collies, the others are all smooths.  All our litters have been very special to us, but we were especially excited about this litter as we absolutely love the puppies’ Sire, Dunkin.  We actually bred our Addison to Dunkin last year, but she missed, so we decided to breed Dunkin to Peyton.  Happily the result was a litter of 6 little nuggets, and we are so grateful that they are all doing great.

So prepare for lots of Puppy spam in the upcoming weeks!

This and That…

 It’s been a while since our last update!  We’ve been so busy with dog shows and family visiting from out of State, that I haven’t had any time to sit down and write.  

Looking back to my last post, we do have some news.  Our ZuZu won Select at another collie specialty show on May 2nd, which gave her a 3rd major towards her Grand Championship.  With her additional wins last weekend, she is now just 2 points away from her Grand.

And last weekend our puppy, Dean, won a Group 1st from the BPUP Herding Group.  He really had fun, and so did Sam and Shannon, which was the main goal.  They were unsure of themselves when we first arrived at the show.   But by the end of the shows, all 3 puppies were walking around the Fairgrounds with confidence and were loving all the attention lavished upon them from the spectators and other exhibitors.  

Maizie with her BFF, Kelsea, at Quinnipiac for their last visit of the semester.

We have also been doing a lot of Therapy visits, as we’ve been getting more and more requests.  It’s hard to keep up with all the requests as we are limited on how many visits we are allowed to make each week.  I hate to turn anyone down, as pet therapy has so many benefits!  We usually visit Quinnipiac University every 2 or 3 weeks, but they are now off until the Fall, so I agreed to start visiting another Nursing facility every other week for the Summer months. 

Maizie, her brother Finn and Kelsea on a therapy visit this past weekend.

We will hopefully have some very exciting news to share in just a few days, so please check back with us!

What an Amazing Weekend!

 We had an amazing weekend, and we have so much to share!

This weekend was our collie specialty shows.  Saturday was warm and sunny, and we went home with new ribbons, a new title, and sunburns!  Sunday was windy, rainy and cold, but the collies still came home with new ribbons!

We are excited to share the news that Nolan won Winner’s Dog for a 5 point major, and he is now a champion! 

And on Saturday during the AM show our ZuZu was Select Bitch, and in the PM show she was awarded Best of Opposite Sex.  These wins gave her more points towards her Grand Championship.

I had entered our sweet senior, Maizie, in the AM show on Sunday in the Veterans class. (CH Marchello’s Littlest Angel, FDC, THDN, CGC, TKN) I entered her just for fun, so she could go to the show with us and get back into the ring, and something wonderful and unexpected happened!

Maizie captured the heart of the judge, and she awarded Maizie Best of Variety over the much younger smooth champions!  Maizie looked beautiful and even though she is a senior, Grandma Maizie gracefully ran around the ring, until she started jumping with joy!  Watching her happiness, especially when everyone cheered for her, brought tears to my eyes!

On Sunday afternoon we entered the puppies in the 4 - 6 month puppy class.  It was their first show, and they were unsure and hesitant at first.  Slowly they figured it out, but they definitely need a lot more practice! 

Shannon getting some love from the judge!

Sam and Shannon

Sam

Dean

After evaluating the puppies the judge chose little Sam as Best Puppy!

It was a fun, exciting weekend for our collies, and we came home with lots of pretty ribbons!  And though she didn’t win, our Rosie looked so beautiful!  Her day is coming…