Cinders had her last puppy at around noon today. She has 6 boys and 3 girls. Everyone is very healthy and mom and pups are doing really well. All the puppies were black and rust. Here are the weights, collar colors and birth order: 1 Yellow collar Boy 17.9 oz 2 Burgundy girl 10.2 oz 3 Orange boy 14.8 4 Green boy 12.3 5 hot pink girl 13.4 6 light blue boy 13.0 7 blue boy 12.3 8 brown boy 16.9 9 Purple girl 11.6 |
Well, Cinders is due to whelp Tuesday March 16. This is a picture I took last night. She still seems rather hyper so I don't think the pups will come early. Tomorrow we go to the vet to get X-rays and check up on the puppies and see how many there are. Its amazing to me to see the x-rays of the unborn puppies. you can see their little skeletons suspended inside the mama. Cinders has settled down on her complaining some. She still gets grouchy when the pups are moving around a lot. Porsche and her still play a lot, but I try not to let them get too rough. The weather has warmed up, so I have started taking Porsche to the lake to train after work. Her obedience is beautiful. I really think that she could be ready for her BH in a couple weeks. We still need a little more work on her stays (but she is better than her mom was) and I need to reintroduce her to a formal schutzhund field. I will likely start looking for a trial as soon as the new pups are in their new homes. Tracking is one area that I have severely neglected with Porsche. I have shown her a short track a few times, but she always has so much energy that I kept putting it of in hopes that she would calm down some. Well she is still very energetic. I decided today to track her more like I do her mom - tired. I worked her in obedience first with the ball and took some of the edge off of her then introduced her to a short track. I had to point out the first couple of footsteps, but then she started tracking in a more calm manner. She went footstep to footstep and did not pull so much. I think it might work! She is SO smart. She learns so quickly. I always thought that Cinders learned quickly, but Ruggy (aka Porsche) is amazing! If exercising her before tracking works, then I expect her to be tracking at a Sch1 level by fall. Once she figures out what I want she will be amazing! (at least I hope this works:) |
I chatted with Gail last night on Facebook. Ms Rain is doing really well in her training. She had a lot of fun last weekend. She got to search 2 different large buildings and work 4 different problems.at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center. She loves to work and is doing great. She is a very fast learner.
Gail says that she loves to watch Rain work. She will go out and search then look back at Gail so Gail can tell her she is a good girl. She loves to show off, especially in front of other people. She had quite a following this weekend and she would prance around until she had all the attention then take off and work. It was amazing talking to Gail. I see so much of Cinders in Rain. Gail says that Rain is bone headed about some things, tough as nails most of the time yet the most loving girl I could want. I love to watch her work. That little dober brain kicks into gear and you wonder just how smart they are. What I also love is how she gets so excited to work. She is such high drive and she will get so wound up then after we are done she sleeps like a log. (She snores some but it's cute) . Yes, I do love the little girl (even if she isn't so little any more). Her snore is this little "flutter" and when she snores Tory stares at her with this "What on Earth is that" look on his face. Her description reminds me so much of Cinders. I love to see Cinders passing on these wonderful traits to her pups. Rain was one of the pups that I really thought favored her mother (Porsche is Daddy Arras' girl). Gail is talking about getting Rain's LETS certification http://www.letsk9professionals.org/cadaver.html in April and her IDHS certifications next summer. She needs to work on stay with her for the obedience part. She does most of it prettygood but stay is hard (again she takes after mommy Cinders). I attached a picture of Rain starting her building search. I can't wait to hear more about Rain and Gail. I hope to go watch them train again sometime. |
| Porsche has been doing awesome on her training lately. We have started training the hold and guard and she is doing really well. Her grips are calm and full. Meanwhile, Cinders thinks she is starving and complains more and more each day. She is getting big and most likely I will start taking some pregnancy photos in the next week or so. She constantly tries to break into the food bins. She is grumpy and never seems satisfied. |
I just got back from New York last night. Cinders was bred to Citto v.d Wudritz IPO 3 this last week. I am expecting this to be an awesome working litter! Citto was such a gentleman and such a nice dog. I was very happy that I got to go and see him. I can't wait to have puppies again! Also, I need to give a special shout out to Arras, the father of my first working litter. Arras turned a very healthy and happy 10 yrs old a few days ago! Both Arras and his mother have recently received their Longevity Certification from DPCA. Happy Birthday Arras!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
