Puppies are here!

The puppies arrived, right on schedule! There are 3 girls and 3 boys, all very vigorous! Here’s a photo of mom and the 2-3 hour old puppies. The collar colors are just temporary until we implement our marking system, but for now, from left to right they are: light blue boy, navy blue boy, yellow […]

Waiting game

Less than a week to go now, and we are more than ready for these puppies to be here. These are a couple photos of Sporty from today. The first was taken after a short but enjoyable bumper-retrieving session, and the second shows what a wide-body Sporty has become. Hopefully she’ll regain her trim figure […]

Luxury box

Here is Sport modeling her whelping box with custom whelping pad, made of 5-inch high-density foam. The cover is a marine vinyl fabric. She absolutely loves it, and I’m sure the whelping will go that much smoother for it. 🙂 The side rails haven’t been installed yet, but that comes next. Sport is less than […]

Cooper is 11!

Happy Birthday to our dear Cooper! Please see his Birthday Page for lots of pictures of his birthday hike and celebration at Sunol Regional Park.  We celebrated with our dear friend Suzanne, and Cooper’s littermate Gemma.  Of course it was her birthday too!

Ultrasound Day

Sporty has definitely been acting different lately, so we suspected she was carrying pups. The ultrasound today confirmed it, and the pups look strong and healthy (according to the vet– I just saw blobs!!). The due date should be around May 7th. I’ll try to keep this blog updated with news and pictures throughout the […]