More Puppy updates…

Three of our puppies have gone to their new homes.  Mark is now called Simon, and in a wonderful home.  His new family has already taught him many new tricks, and they hope to get him into a dog modeling career.  So you may see him in a commercial or advertisement one day!  They also agreed we could show him, so he is going to work towards earning his championship.

Christina left last week, and is living her best life on Cape Cod!  She has been renamed Frannie, which suits her beautifully.  She has discovered a love of the ocean life, and her new hobbies include swimming and boating!

Derek, Izzy and Meredith are growing up so fast and went for their 2nd vaccines this week. The veterinary staff loved them! Derek left us yesterday, so we don’t have any new photos yet.  But his new family already adore him, and his new name is Leo!  This video was from earlier in the week.

The beautiful Izzy, now named Tempest

Izzy will be going to her new home this weekend, and Meredith will be staying with us.  Meredith had a name change too.  Since the name was no longer being used, and fits her so well, Meredith is now called Shannon.  The name “Shannon” was in honor of one of our favorite collies, and is also the name of a loved family member, so we still wanted to use it.  And it fits our new girl perfectly…

And there was one other new addition to the family…my newest Grandson was born two weeks ago!  I now have four beautiful grandchildren! (Which is one of the reasons I’ve been so lax about updating!) We are so grateful for the wonderful new homes all our puppies have found.  We are wishing them all a lifetime of happy memories!

Updates - Sam and Silver

 Sam and Silver, Dean’s littermates, have been busy trying out dog shows!

Silver, or Slyvie, has become a beautiful young lady.  You may remember we were originally calling her Shannon, but it just didn’t fit her personality.  As soon as we tried out Silver, she came running, so Silver it is!

 Sam is a handsome boy, and as sweet as they come.  Both Sam and Silver did great at their first real dog show, and earned their first points towards their championships.  They are entered next weekend in another two day show.  We are hoping it isn’t too hot, as it’s an outdoor show.  More to come about these two cuties!

Updates - Dean

It’s been a while, much longer than I realized, so it’s time for an update! (The 1st of many)

We made the very difficult decision to let Dean go, but happily he went to live with our friend Ava.  While I love Dean very much, we knew we just couldn’t keep three puppies from the same litter.  Ava has been wanting a puppy from us for a while, and Dean just seemed perfect for her.

It ended up being one of the best decisions we ever made!  Ava is giving Dean the best life, they are trying lots of new things…like herding…and agility…

And he is learning to be brave around scary monsters…

And he has even discovered a love of swimming! Our past collies never liked swimming, but our new generations seem to love it! (Thanks to our collie Mamas, Peyton and ZuZu!)

Ava loves her boy so much, and she is giving him the best life.  She is also great about updating us on their adventures, so we will get to watch Dean grow up.

The puppies!

Scarlett has improved and is fully recovered!  A huge thank you to everyone who reached out to us.  Our sweet Scarlett means the world to us, and we are so grateful for more time together.

The puppies are growing up so fast!  We are absolutely in love with our Peyton puppies, they are so sweet, snuggly and smart!

Meredith and Mark

Mark

Meredith

Christina

Derek and Izzy

Derek

Izzy

Christina

The puppies at the vet office, time for their 1st vaccines!

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?  

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!

Cuteness Overload!

We are still in the grip of Winter, with yet another Winter Storm looming on the horizon.  With all the snow, which has been melting and freezing, the puppies haven’t been able to enjoy the outside world.  But they are growing and thriving, and somehow, they are now 8 weeks old!  We did our usual photoshoot, to get some great pictures of them, and I’m so happy with how they came out!  Let’s start with the boys…

 

Sam (smooth) on the left and Dean (rough)
on the right

Sam the smooth boy

Dean the rough boy

I love the picture of the brothers, with Sam snuggling up against Dean.  The girls were next, and posed so beautifully for us!  You would think they were professional puppy models! 

Left to right, Danika (rough) Shannon (smooth) and Bryce (rough)

Danika

Shannon

Bryce

All the puppies are beautiful, and we had the hardest time choosing our keeper.  In the end we decided to keep Shannon. It’s very difficult to let any of them go, and my heart will break when they leave, but we found great homes for Danika and Bryce.  For now, both Sam and Dean are staying.  We didn’t plan on this, but they both have some beautiful virtues, so we are keeping them for a few more weeks, to see how they look at 10 weeks old.

As we already have their handsome half brother, Nolan, we weren’t planning on keeping a smooth boy.  Since Nolan and Sam are both smooth tri colors, and closely related, we might let Sam go, if the right show home comes along.  There’s just something about Sam that catches your eye.  And we’ve never had a rough tri color, so when our co-breeder asked us to keep Dean, it didn’t take much to convince us. 

They all had good eye checks, and they all went to the vet 2 days ago for their 1st vaccines and health checks, and they all did great.   That’s all for now, I’ll post updates soon, promise!