Another fabulous day at the beach

 Yesterday I met up with friends who have a couple of Itzapromise poodles, and a family who would like one,  for a walk on the beach, a great time was had by all. 

Florin is very fit and well, she now has a small but definite baby bump :) 

They're cooking :)

 Florin had a scan last week and she is definitely pregnant, though once again it is looking like a small litter. That said puppies can, and quite often do, tuck themselves out of sight only to surprise us when they arrive. 

Florin doesn't look obviously pregnant at the moment, she should start to bloom in the next week or so, but I can see a definite change of shape in her. 

On Friday we had trip to Saunton sands with my friend and her 4 poodles, it was a pretty dull day so I didn't get as many photos as normal, but here are some of them anyway :) 

In other news we had the first fire of the season, it proved popular :)

And now we wait

 I am pleased to say that Florin has had some good matings the week before last, blood tests tell us that we got the timing right so now we have to wait and see. I should know if she has taken in about a fortnights time, and all being well this will hopefully mean puppies due on or around the 7th Dec. I am so excited, it's been 3 years since our last litter so far too long!

If you have emailed me asking about progress I hope that this is sufficient information for now. Once she has had pregnancy confirmed I will ask those who have already made contact to confirm their interest by emailing me on therowdens@hotmail.com (the yahoo address is generally only checked every so often as it is purely for the application forms). 

Please all keep your fingers crossed :) 

Sooner than expected

 As the kittens join their new families things are becoming much quieter here, but hopefully the quiet period won't last too long as Florin has come into season earlier than expected :) 

We had a fab day at the beach yesterday, the weather was glorious so it was a bit busier than we had hoped for, but still plenty of space for the dogs to run and have fun once we had walked a couple of hundred yards. 

Just a few pics

The kittens are now at the manic monster stage, full of energy, quick as lightning and batteries seem to recharge very quickly. They have all had their 1st health check and vaccination and Beetles kittens will start to leave us in about a fortnight. 

The dogs have done pretty well for walks recently, our usual walk is about 6 miles long but we do a longer one a couple of times a week(generally around the 8/9 mile mark), today we managed 15 miles, the dogs look a lot fresher at the end of it than I do! We took a trip to Dartmoor on BH Monday for a picnic and took the dogs as an extra to their earlier walk. My hope was that with all the tourists that would have been at Haytor all day the sheep would have moved to a quieter area, I was wrong, there were blinking sheep everywhere! This meant that the dogs had to be kept under very close control and on their leads, but they still enjoyed the change of scenery :) I did take the leads off for a couple of minutes, purely to grab a couple of quick group shots on the rocks. 

The above picture was on a heath that we crossed on todays 15 miler :) 

Next week the schools will be back, so most of the holiday makers will have gone home which means we get our beaches back, can't wait :)