Just out walking the dogs :)

These are just a few very short videos showing how the dogs behave on a typical walk, this is when we are on the fairly narrow paths, when we are in open fields or in the woods they are a bit more animated (as can be seen by photos that I frequently post), but hopefully this gives an insight on how sound all my dogs are with various distractions such as a jogger, group of teenagers, nervy dogs, noisy dogs and young children. As you will notice the dogs don't need to be called away from any of the situations and on these examples I had to need to stop them approaching anyone, but should we meet someone/a dog that is really not comfortable with my gang they will all come when asked and walk in a tight group with me and we would give as wide a berth as possible to whoever is worried.

Purdie is quite an old lady now, she will be 12 in a few weeks. Whilst she still enjoys a very good quality of life she does have quite significant spondylitis and some nerve damage to her back legs, this is managed both with conventional and natural medicine but she also does her own bit of hydro every day by always choosing to paddle down the stream on our walks.

Silver puppies available

Whilst I have no plans for a silver litter in the near future Cash has been entertaining the ladies and this month has seen 2 beautiful silver litters born, sired by him.  There are pups available from at least one of these litters, dogs and bitches. The Mum is fully health tested with a lovely temperament and the pups will be reared in the home. If Cash's previous litters are anything to go by they should be cracking pups. If you are interested please contact their owner, Fiona Smith, directly. They are located in Pewsey, Warwickshire and the contact number is 07876 806370.

Enjoying a fabulous October

The weather continues to be kind to us, so we are making the most of it and getting some fab walks, I am also aware that the girls are due in season anytime now so really don't want to miss any walking opportunities (hoping to repeat the Spirit/Morse litter). Yesterday we went to the beach, I could only take 6 dogs with me so unfortunately Purdie, Alfie and Audrey had to stay home, but Graham was with them and they got to enjoy some good meaty bones whilst we were out.
These are some pics from our morning, there are loads more pics on my Flickr.com account, link on the right of the page.

The kittens are 7 weeks old already! They are super fast now but here are a couple of pics taken whilst they were asleep. Will try and get some more pics over the next few days.

 The boys are also enjoying the late sunshine, both my boys are so sociable and fortunately both are able to roam free (alternating times) so they do not have the typical stud cat existance. The main difference between the boys attitude is that Manuel will not tolerate the dogs and all give him a wide berth whilst Fawlty positively enjoys their company, particularly that of Eliza, they really are best buddies .

And last but not least, we have some new additions to our small chicken flock, these are our new girls.

Just pics

Young lady in need of new home

This is Sky, she is a Manuel/Tibbs girl, about 4 years old and due to an unfortunate series of events, resulting in her being spayed today, her owner has reluctantly decided she would be better off in a home where she is the centre of attention. She is a friendly girl but a little shy and she would prefer to be the only cat. There will be a very reasonable rehoming fee. She will need to stay with me for at least another 10 days whilst she recovers from todays surgery, but if you think you may be able to offer her her forever home please contact me.

Tibbs and her kittens

The kittens are now 4 weeks old and are starting to venture out, this concerns Tibbs who would rather they stayed where she put them, to this effect she moves them around the lounge and deposits them in quite inappropriate places, yesterday it was behind the sideboard.

Unfortunately for Tibbs the kittens are not so keen on staying put now -

Just a few more pics.

We had a lovely trip to a North Devon beach this week, these are just a few pics from our day.