Good News for the C's

When I took Della up to CCI to be bred, I asked if they knew how her first litter was doing. I am proud to report that a full 50% of Della's first litter have now graduated. Cecil, Cressie and Cinnamon are assistance dogs and Cyrano and Clifford are both hearing dogs. Congratulations to all their puppy raisers for their hard work and a job well done!!!

I am not dead yet..........................!(actually written 3/13/09)

Hi everyone!!

Well, I realize it has been quite some time since I last posted (last September for gosh sake!). I can only say that it has been crazy busy around here, starting with my youngest, Duncan, being hospitalized in October for pneumonia and continuing with my daughter's 15 1/2 yo dog dying unpleasantly in November. Then came the holidays and a new puppy between X-mas and New Year's. Then I got busy with rehearsals for a musical I was cast in with a slight interruption for a nasty kidney infection.

Rev (14 pounds)
Well, the show is over, the puppy is mostly housebroken, and I finally get a chance to catch my breathe,................and Della goes into heat a month early!!

That's right, Ms. Della went up Tuesday, 3/10, for her 3 weeks at the "spa". I will be posting when she comes back with details on who she was matched with. I wish it was Baumann again. A full 50% of the pups from that litter made it to graduation. At this time, Cecil, Cinnamon, and Cressida have graduated as companion dogs and Cyrano and Clifford have graduated as hearing dogs. Yay Della!

Random "Y" pictures

I realize that I have been remiss in posting photos this litter. I can only plead parenthood and end-of-summer/beginning-of-school business as my excuse. To make up for this lack I have herein assembled a selection of the cutest photos from the "Y's" first 4 weeks. So without further ado, I now present a month in the life of a litter....(backwards from 4 weeks, as I uploaded the pics in the wrong order and am too lazy to fix it.) :-)

Duncan enjoying the litter in their intermediate pen at 4 1/2 weeks of age.


First solid feeding,at 4 1/2 weeks. Doesn't look like they had any trouble figuring out how to eat, does it? ;-)


The day before we learned about solid food, be went outside for the first time!! (but we liked to be inside the play structures the best)

The cube

The tunnel


Wow, what a difference a couple of weeks makes!!!

2 weeks old



With 10 puppies, they start to run out of room to feed at only 2 weeks of age.

One of their last days in the puppy pool.


Amazingly, everyone gets enough to eat in this pile-up.


4 days old







There you have it, 4 weeks of puppydom. Hope you had fun!!

Introducing the "Y's" at 5 weeks

Presenting the not-so-tiny, mighty Y's and their official names!!!

Yorick II


Yaz


Yanek


Yardley II


Yara


Yutaka


Yadira


yakir


Yosef


Young II


So far I have heard from one PR, who will be having Young to raise in Texas. If anyone knows of anyone else getting one of these pups, please contact me through the CCI yahoo group at: cci-people@yahoogroups.com so we can exchange contact info and I can tell you about the puppy you are getting to raise!!

We are the "Y's"

the tiny, mighty "Y's"!!

Here we are, the lucky 8/8/08 Y litter, Della II x Pirie.
Numero Uno, big boy RED


Don't we clean up nice..................


Then there were 2...........


Then 4...................


Casual sleeper already


Being born is tiring!!

We haven't yet gotten the email asking for our name suggestions, but Ashley and I have managed to generate an entire page of Y names we can submit to CCI when we do get the email.
Friday was their 1 week b-day. Most everyone has already doubled their birth weight and there is a whole lot of crawling going on in the pool these days. Monday we start checking for open eyes and the ears will soon follow. Then let the barking commence!!

Puppies Episode III

Well, Della managed to hold off on her whelping to allow us a lucky 8/8/8 litter. She even almost started at 8PM (her first was born at 7:56). We finished off 10 puppies later at 2:30AM. There are 8 boys and 2 girls, all yellow. We do not know their litter letter yet, but I will post that, as well as pictures, when available. In the meantime, since it is now 4:20AM (I stayed up to make sure there where no surprises since Dr. Ruth was so unsure of the litter size) I will now crawl off to bed and hope my hubby is wise enough to not get me up until well after noon!!

??????????

Well, we had our X-ray on Thursday. Dr. Ruth's assessment of the number of puppies was essentially, "well you have 8, no 9, maybe 10, there might be 11 but I can't tell for sure." It seems the puppies are very bunched up and Della had a lot of gas in her intestines which decreased the clarity of the X-ray. I guess we will all just have to wait until the actual delivery to find out. Stay tuned, D-day is still the 8th with a good chance she'll be early.