Blue Collar Boy

It has been a long time!....

.....since I've posted anything to my blog!

Not a lot has been happening up until now. New babies have arrived! Rumor (Can/Am CH Sherick's Hot Gossip at Mason) and Nicholas (Mason's St Nicholas) presented us with 8 bouncing bundles of wrinkles on April 26, 2010! They were delivered at Grandma/Mom Sherry's house. On May 26 I brought 3 f them and their mom home to be raised here. It was a difficult decision who to bring, especially when I had to pry Grandma Sherry's fingers from the black collar boy!

Here are some pics taken at 4 weeks of age:

Finally! Some Updated Pictures

Here are the babies at 6 weeks. They're really all developing their own personalities and starting to "sort themselves out" in their pecking order! They're now growing in leaps and bounds...some gaining up to a pound a day!

I guess the Christmas influence is evident! They've all dipped their toes in the snow!

Red Collar Black & Tan Girl...the "itty-bitty" girl!

Red Collar Black & Tan Boy

Red Collar Red Boy

Red Collar Red Girl

Green Collar Red Boy

Green Collar Red Girl

Yellow Collar Red Girl...the other "itty bitty" girl!

Yellow Collar Red Boy

White Collar Red Girl

White Collar Red Boy

White Collar Black & Tan Boy

Some Candid Photos

Finally!...some photos that I took over the past week. Unfortunately I haven't had the time (or the help!) to get more individual ones.

Here is Sera singing them all a lullaby. As you can see, it worked! She's a great babysitter/socializer!

This is what I like to call the "clock" picture....although there is one number short!! They sure love their mush!!

Update

Puppies are doing well! Unfortunately we lost 3 a couple of weeks ago. I'm not certain what the cause was, as we didn't do a post-mortem. We have our suspicions that it may have been viral. Regardless of the cause they are sadly missed.

Puppy Update!

Sorry, no new pictures, but today our eyes started to open! They aren't "looking back" at me yet, but there is a little glint in the corner of the eyes on some of the pups. Tonight was also "Pedicure Night"! Certainly not an easy task! Try cutting 252 teeny tiny toenails on squirming pups!

Introducing!...

The MERRY CHRISTMAS litter!

As I'm sure you can imagine it was quite the production to get these pictures! For every one you see here I'm sure I took 10! They all have great noses and many of the shots were of them sniffing the blanket with their heads between their front legs! These were taken over the past few days and they turned one week old yesterday (hard to believe it's been a week already!). You will notice that there are 4 pups with the same colour collars. That is because there are male/female of each colour. I tried to stick with the Christmas theme and used appropirately coloured collars.

Here they are in birth order...