Sunday, May 29, 2011

May days (& March too)

Days are hot and the water is clear.
Mornings are great for swimming. Puppy G loves it!















Afternoons are made for relaxing.
Miles and Stella lounge on the porch.



















Evenings are still cool enough for walks.
Tito on the move!















The pups are getting big -they'll have to be spayed soon.
Twiggy strikes a pose.



















Helpxer Ilana will soon be leaving us.
An eerie shot at dusk.














 


Siblings Jack and Lily are beautiful and shy ...but not camera shy.


































































































 Better late than never, I want to thank Ashley for coming. I don't know how I didn't get your picture...but I'm glad your sister did. Cheers Ash! Come again!


















The rest of these shots are from March and were taken by Emily or Ashley.
Miles keeps watch.














Three sisters.




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Wee Xmul!


















Xmul, Daisy and Mo.














Emily and Oscar


















Ashley and Tito


















Emily and Henry


















Silly Archie making his favorite funny face.


















Greta and Zasu














Bette!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

puppy maneuvers

Daisy is back to her happy, playful self!
She and Lucy love the beach.















Isn't Lucy a beauty? Checkout those lashes!














We had a visitor...I think it's called a mapache, but I'm not sure.
My first thought was rabies, but I think it was domesticated and dumped. It seemed inquisitive and wasn't afraid of dogs. I wish I had managed to trap it for a wildlife rehabber, but I'm no Steve Irwin. It had big teeth and I was more concerned about the safety of the dogs. I think this was what Gracie treed few years ago and she still has the scar on her throat to prove it.















If he comes back I'll try to trap him.














As for our own little beasties...
Xmul (pronounced shmool) is a riot and a handful!
Here she takes on Tuesday.















Xmul and Mo (I think).














Wrasslin' with her best pal Daisy.














Coming for the camera!!!


















The beach is usually deserted this time of year, perfect for doggy sorties. Chester and Tito in the lead.














The dogs think the best thing about the beach is dead fish to chew on!
(notice Twiggy's cute broken tail in the foreground.)














Finding the fish is easy ...the hard part is keeping it; competition is stiff!














Luna (I think) and her prize.














Xmul!


















Luna, her fish, and Daisy.














Mo and Twiggy.














All pups present and accounted for.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

puppy update

Daisy was deathly ill and had to spend almost a week a the vet's. All 4 of the younger puppies suffered briefly from the same thing, but responded to antibiotics. Because she had ehrlichiosis when she showed up a few weeks earlier her defenses were already weakened.
 

poor sick Daisy, just home from the vet's:














After a week of injections and antibiotics here at home she's still a little bag of bones, but her white cell count is up, she's getting stronger and she's starting to play; it looks like she'll be ok.

feeling a bit better:














 

The four lucky pups are doing fine...the 3 black pups:














and little fawn colored Xmul (found by Nicole and Marie)
:














have had a better start than most...
with walks in the mornings:















and 24 hour a day doting by Emily:














Elewah insists there is no resemblance
:


















and Miles is not impressed:














everyone else thinks they're swell,
especially Stella:














We've gone through a few names and settled on
Twiggy
:














Luna:














and Mo
:














Xmul likes to charge at the camera, so most of her pictures look like this
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Xmul napping with Alice
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The newest dog pen is a huge hit! It's the dog's favorite place to hang out (unless we want to shut the door, then it's awful!).
Some random puppy silliness:



Enough puppy news; here's our beautiful Monkey:














and sweet Molly:



















Floyd has been showing some improvement in his behavior, although we still keep him sequestered from the other males (except for Ziggy, for some reason he has no problem with Ziggy.). He has complicated life here at the dog ranch, but isn't his fault.
He loves Stella most of all
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Oh, yeah...and because life is a sit-com...our chickens...are roosters














...and scene!

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Girls rule, boys drool!

Come to think of it, these girls may drool too...'cause they're puppies!
Three beautiful sisters that are about 3 months old:














and a fawn colored girl of about the same age:














Thank goodness we've had a helper! Yay, Emily!


















Reggie helps keep an eye on them too:















fascinating:















Daisy is doing great; she's having fun being bigger than the newbies!















Pretty Daisy:














A picture of each of the 3 sisters.
#1:














#2














#3














and three pictures of this little beauty: