Merry Christmas!

We hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas!  I’ve loaded up my car sleigh, and I’m heading over the river and through the woods, to my Grandchildren’s house I go!

But before I go, I wanted to share why this Christmas is a little more joyful for us…

Christmas came a little bit early for us!  On December 22nd our ZuZu had her puppies!

ZuZu had an easy time, she whelped her puppies pretty quickly, and she had five beautiful and healthy puppies!

The first puppy was a tri girl, and then an hour later, another tri girl was born.  Then came a tri boy, followed by another tri boy!  As ZuZu was bred to Noah, a rough, blue Merle, we were expecting to see at least a few blue puppies in the litter.  We were told to expect five puppies in this litter, and she had just had four tri color puppies.  We were starting to worry, but then she was born…

After 20 years, our first blue Merle collie was born!  While we were hoping for more, we couldn’t be happier, as they are all beautiful.  And I’ve also been wanting a pretty, tri color rough girl for a while, and it looks like both or our tri girls are rough coated.  

The puppies with the pink and purple collars, are most likely roughs.

The puppy with the red collar, who was much bigger than his littermates, is likely a rough.

The last boy born (whelped) with a green collar, is probably a smooth.  If you look closely, you can see how the first three tri colors have more of a silky shine to their fur.  That usually predicts the puppy will be rough.

And then last, the blue girl is a smooth too.  We thought she might be rough when she was first born, but when she dried off she looks more like a smooth.

We are so excited about this litter!  We were hoping it would be bigger, as we have a large waitlist of people wanting one if our puppies.  But fuve is nice because ZuZu has plenty of milk for everyone.  Typically, like human babies, puppies lose a little wait the first day after they are whelped.  But ZuZu has so much milk, and us doing such a great job taking care of her babies, they all gained weight the first day!

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday, I’ll update with more pictures soon!