Pupdate

Spirits pups now have pet names, as my daughter is into all things Japanese at the moment they are called Ichy (phantom), Ni (cream), San (black boy, blue collar) and Shi (black girl, red collar). This is apparantly one, two, three and four in Japanese and they are named according to the order they were born in.

Kittens are well and truly up and about now, just the black girl still needing a home.

We are so lucky to live where we do, yesterday we spent the morning at the beach with a friend and her assorted dogs (15 between us!) unfortunately Purdie had to stay home as she would have found the walk too much, Spirit is obviously still on maternity leave and Alfie is a lazy boy and often chooses to stay home! Todays walk was a fairly sedate affair as the dogs were still tired :)

Available kittens

Unfortunately I have to offer 2 of my kittens for homing again as the lady who had booked them hasn't been in contact about them. I have the black girl and the blue and white girl available. Both are bold babies and although they have only just started to explore outside the nest, all signs point towards them having typical Devon naughtiness.

Spirit and her pups are doing very well, pups are little butterballs, which is hardly surprising as there are just 4 of them to fight for the milk bar. 

Might be today!

Spirit went into the 1st stage of labour last night, this can last 36hrs and so far things are pretty uneventful here. I will obviously update as things progress and the webcam will go live when pushing starts. Puppies are arriving CAM IS ON :)

Counting down!

Spirit is due her pups on or around the 22nd of this month. She is very fit and well (this mornings walk was 8 miles!) but is not huge, I am guessing 6 puppies.

This picture was taken 6 days before her last litter was born, 2 years ago. On that occasion she had 9.

As always Spirit will go on her regular walks until the pups arrive, not only will this help her general fitness for labour but it will keep her calm and relaxed prior to the pups arrival. These are some pics from todays walk, Spirit enjoys the walks but is not very interesting to photograph at the moment as she is pretty ploddy, the rest of the gang however make the most of every moment, including the pensioners, Dollar and Purdie :)

Bit of a brag

Those who have followed me for a while will know that showing is not my thing, however sometimes puppies and kittens that I have bred do go to people that enjoy showing them. Margo belongs to Shelly and she got her to Crufts last year where she gained a very respectable 5th place and managed to get onto the front page of the Guardian newspaper. This year they were back again, but in a much bigger class, I believe there were 18 dogs entered, and she was placed 3rd!! I am so pleased for her owner, who has put so much effort in keeping her in show condition, they are an amazing team together, so whilst the most important job of any animal I breed is to be a 1st class pet, to do so well at a world famous dog show is a little bit special.
Unfortunately I was not able to get to Crufts on poodle day, but have been given permission by Amy Bramley to use the pictures of Margo that she took.

All about the kittens

Buns in the oven

Spirit is 6 weeks pregnant today, I took a picture of her just 3 days ago and thought that she looked like she may only have a few in there.

However, 2 nights ago she literally ballooned and these were pics taken today, I now suspect that there is a good sized litter cooking in there, looking forward to meeting them all, on or around the 22nd March.