Ch Shelamo Heart's Delight Male Pups

These two male pups are sired by Am/Cdn Ch Grandgables Idealistically Sharrow and are available to forever homes.  Contact co-breeder Margaret Pratt. 

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Who's Got A Great Buddy?

Trey with his "Brother" in his favourite chair

(as emailed to me)

Received this from clients down the Toronto way.  Trey came from our Ch Shelamo Heart's Delight litter 2 years ago (and just so happens his sire's call name is "Brother").

Photo by Joe Fletcher

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Puppies - Bite Inhibition

In one of my previous posts I said I'd try and get pics of puppies play fighting and learning bite inhibition. They all start to learn this as early as 2.5 wks of age, before the puppy teeth come in.

Can we do rearrange this together?

Here's the Bliss litter around 4 wks of age. They've decided the way I made their bed needed rearranging. Yes, they thought this play time was fun, but they were also learning how much pressure was needed & physical force to move this item, which didn't yipe back at them.

Maybe I should train them to make our bed!

I got you~ no you don't, I got you!

Two of Tyme's girls in a play fight. At 6+ wks their teeth are fully erupted and their jaws are getting stronger.

Now I've got you .... nope, I got you!

Sheesh, all this learning is tiring.

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Tyme Pups ~ 5 weeks

Pups are now 5 wks old and waking/play time has increased to about 1 hour at a time. Since their mobility has increased it was time to introduce them to the hoop, right at floor level. They were quick to investigate this new 'toy', and not an issue to go through it.

Crate training begins .... 5 pups in a small crate

No one's told them yet that Plough---ing to the other end of the plate isn't better food ~ you just get your feet all wet!
Guess it's time to bring out the round metal food bowl ~ tomorrow ~ then they can't plough thru it as easily.

We have more play fighting happening, more standing over one another in a dominant posture ~ will try and get a pic of that ~ more things in their mouths!!! like dust bunnies when they're out to play!

In comparison, here's the white faced girl of Bliss (sire Whistler) 11 days younger. This litter is just starting to get up on their feet with a bit of mouthing. Sleep & nursing are still their priorities.

something furry to cuddle with ~ makes them feel secure

Clean, clean, change, mop, launder are the words of the day, even more now ~ mom isn't doing much of the work now!

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Tyme Pups 2 weeks old last Saturday

As we follow Tyme's pups as they grow, here are some updated pictures of them @ 2 weeks of age. Iif you remember, they easily fit into this red donut bed; they now fill it!

eyes and ears are still shut

warmth, sleeping, mother's milk and huddling are their activities in life at this stage;
they also have a twitch, flicking their limbs, which is the body's way of exercising at this stage if you don't see it, then a pup is in trouble.

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Bliss's Pups Have Arrived

I've been tardy in getting our most recent news of our new litter up ... life with dogs has that way of loosing time.

Last early Wednesday morning, after a long night with Bliss's delivery we had to head to the vet for assistance. We had a large stuck pup coming feet first and I knew I'd exhausted myself, and Bliss to get this pup out. We needed a c-section, without too much time to waist. Ultrasound showed we had slower than normal heart beats on the remaining pups. With many hands on deck, and I mean many! as not only did my girlfriend Marylou spend the night up with me & go to the vets, but Mary-Anne ended up taking that day off work to attend to the crew at home. (yes, if her boss is reading this ~ I can confirm this was her reason for not being there ~ I understand this is a new one for you :) ) Then there was 'take a kid to work day', which I had one coming to the house that day to learn the ins/outs of kennel life, plus there were several at the vet clinic also. Other than the vet, the assistants, the vet tech and the receptionist I totally lost track of who I was handing pups to, asking them to rub them and make them cry, keep them warm, remove wet/dirty towels ... the list went on. I thank all those that stepped in, without time to think, or a drink of their coffee, as they arrived at the clinic with all this going on. In the end, we came home with 3 perky girls.

BPIS Ch Shelamo's Riding The Sky x Ch Shelamo Hearts Delight

3 females 1 day old

the 3 girls 5 days old
(thanks to clients for this picture)

here they are, now 1 week old

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How Many Puppies Did You Say??

This past weekend, our May long weekend was HOT and HUMID, setting an all time record yesterday to boot.

However, we 'lost' Sunday with delivering not one but 2 litters of pups! Our 2 litter sisters Bliss and Flirt came into season at the same time and were bred. Their 1st due date wasn't till around the 26th, so their delivery was a bit unexpected.

Flirt started showing signs in the morning with the 1st pup out by 10:30 am. Next was 11 am. I got on the phone and called our good friend Maryl0u as she wanted to see one of our litters born and with working, it made it difficult with all our others time wise. So over she came. We proceeded to deliver a total of EIGHT pups!!! 5 boys, 3 girls. The largest litter we've ever had. This took us to around 6:30pm.
Now it was time for us to eat, feed and send the adults out, deal with our 8 wk old pups and get laundry done. By the time we'd eaten, dogs were back in, it was well after 10pm, Marylou headed home. I settled Flirt in for the night where I could watch her from snoozing on the couch overnite, and figured I'd better send our other pregger girl out one more time ... it's now around 11pm ... I hadn't had time to pay too much attention to her. Well don't I find her in a pool of 'water' in her crate!!! OH LORDY, her water's broke and she's now in labour.


Mike and I bring out another whelping crate to the kitchen, grab the towels we'd just washed, push Flirt & her pups back out of the way and now start working with Bliss. In between pushes I call Marylou ... 'Hey there, want to watch another litter born???' ... say what? Yes, Bliss is now in labour. So she hopped in the car and drove back over. We joked she was now ready for the desert she was too full to have earlier :)


So through the night until the wee hours of the morn, Bliss presented us with 6 puppies, 5 boys, 1 girl. TG Marylou was there to help as Bliss's pups were a little more difficult to whelp. We spent a lot of time on our knees, Marylou holding her and allowing her to lean into her and me, at the 'back end', helping each pup come into the world. We were so sore & stiff, it became a laughing matter .... getting too old to be 'praying' this long!
So these litters were a lot of 1st for us ... 1st litter of EIGHT, 1st time 2 girls delivered the same day, and the 1st time Marylou was around, not for one but for two litters.

Finally, around 5am after more laundry, cleaning up and settling the 2 moms in the kitchen, we took up a spot in the living room and were able to stretch out and have a snooze, while being able to hear if there were any issues. Marylou headed out around 7am.

I spent one more night sleeping on the couch just to make sure the moms were not laying on them and all were getting to the milk bar OK.

Betcha have a question ... YES Flirt has enough nipples for all of them. Everyone is doing just fine, mothers are being very attentive and our lives are pretty easy now for 2-3 wks ... THEN ... the workload of caring for them starts to switch from mom to US.

Thanks Marylou!

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