on a personal note

This last week has been really rough on me emotionally.  My Mother is very ill and I'm just not sure she will be strong enough to pull out of this one. But I did manage to take a couple of videos that I posted on youtube under pocketsocks1 and here are some pix.  Hope you like them.

Bandito is around 6 ounces and Milky Way is around 9 ounces at ten days old.

The List...... the soap opera of Pepsi Cola

Well, whoever said owning a dog was easy has no clue of the hard work involved.  You want a well behaved dog you need to work for it.


We are done with #1.  no submissive peeing in ages.  I can finally say with confidence it ain't coming back.


#2 howling in the wee hours of the am.... some days are better then others and the howling starts at 6am.  Other days are worse.  So we are still working on this one.

#3 Walking on a leash.  You won't believe all the hard work I have put into this one.  But two days straight he has done it.  wow.  Still working on it but we are progressing nicely.  He does stop and look at me.  Then I wait for a moment and call him.  He then continues.  I really hope this is a start to continued success.

#4  potty outside- he still goes on the paper at night.  though somedays I get lucky and their are no morning presents for me to clean up.  I actually saw him go yesterday and nearly passed out.  That was the first time he went in front of me and it has been 2 months??

#5 eating poop and drinking peeps.  I just try and keep everything picked up so he doesn't find any.  He finds it in the back yard though.  Being small I don't find every single one...

#6 running out the door and disappearing.  Last week he did this twice and I was caught running around the neighbourhood trying to catch him.  lovely.

As I write this he is on my lap being all cute and cuddly.  He looks at me with those big eyes as if to say "I don't do these horrible things....how could you tell folks these lies?"  He is a good dog in so many other ways and the good thing is, even though it takes time he is learning.

Da Boys are 6 days old!!

They are nearly a week old.  Looks at those markings.  I am thinking Milky Way may be a smooth coat and Bandito a long coat.  Just have to wait and see.  Also, their faces are darker and I wonder how they will turn out.  Will they have a mask?  I see tan on their cheeks which is very nice.  Milky Way is two whole ounces bigger then Bandito.  But they are growing slowly.  I doubt the puppy chart will be accurate predicting their final size.. and this won't be the first time....

Raw meat indoors!!

It has been raining all morning and is nasty wet outside.  It was time to feed the dogs some raw meat.  Yes, I am still doing this.  I actually give it to them twice a week for a supplement.  And they love it.

so I quarantined them into the back room and gave them a piece each.  Not too messy since I shut the cages and pulled beds up. When they were done I mopped.

Last night I gave Snickie some and I'm not sure how that turned out.  Her poor little tummy is queasy.  This morning she hasn't eaten.  Nor accepted the milk.  I'm not too happy about that. Pups are doing well.

baby Pix

Pepsi, stud for hire, is busy finding ladies to woe!!!

Pepsi went on a sleepover at Bella's house.  Here she is on the right.  Funny thing is that she looks a lot like Pepsi.  As you can see she also has a very nice stop!!

Pepsi went to meet her as he would like to woe her later this spring.  I think they will make beautiful babies.

He was so excited to meet her that he paid her lots of attention... maybe too much.  He followed her around like a devoted husband and she was slightly annoyed by all his attention.



Here they are together.. a moment actually sitting still.  Don't they make a gorgeous couple?

Happy Birthday

They are adorable.  Two little boys.  They are both around 4 ounces.

Where do I begin.  Water broke around 11.11pm. I was so excited.  Three hours later Snickie looked as if she had two sacks coming out.  And nothing much had happened.

I suspected she may be too small to pass them.  So I took her into the ER.  This ended up in a c-section and her being spayed.

These are my pets first, then my breeders.  Snickie's health and her welfare goes before my breeding her.  Also, she  belongs to my daughter.  So she is now fixed.

She is on meds and the sutures come out in 10 days.  Her nipples are inverted so it looks like I still may not get any sleep.  Most likely I will have to supplement.

I hope I am not rambling and make a little sense.  I am so tired from staying up the whole night and the worrying..... 

I just have to concerntrate my efforts on getting Snickie better, and keeping those pups healthy.