The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…

For some, “the most wonderful time of the year” immediately calls to mind visions of twinkling lights and cold, Winter nights.  For our younger collies, their favorite time of year has arrived….FastCAT season!  

This past weekend we were entered at a fun dog show that included a FastCAT trial.  Nolan is finally old enough to try FastCAT, so we entered him.  It took him about half a second to figure out what to do…and after that, he flew!  And when it was ZuZu’s turn, she got so excited when we walked her over to the track and she realized she was going to get to run.  It was an incredibly hot and humid weekend, so their times might be faster next weekend. (If it’s not as hot.)  But Nolan was so fast, he already beat ZuZu’s fastest time.  In the video he runs first and ZuZu runs second.

Puppy Sam was entered in the show, and he won the puppy herding group.  He really seems to enjoy dog shows, and he is turning 6 months old on Thursday, so he can start competing against the big dogs. 

If you want to learn more about FastCAT, you can see our other posts by clicking here.

The pups are 2 weeks old!

The puppies are now 2 weeks old!  They opened their eyes, and now that they can see and hear, they are starting to explore.

I love this age.  Their sweet personalities are starting to show and they have started climbing onto our laps, seeking our attention and affection.

There is nothing cuter than their little faces looking up at us.  It happens every time, but these puppies have our hearts wrapped around their tiny paws!  This is the period when they change day to day, I can’t wait to see their personalities develop.

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!