Day 3 - Breaking the one pound mark

Two of the boys have broken the one pound mark today, Titan and Adonis!  Everyone else continues to do well.  Here are a handful of pictures I took today.

Day 2

Puppies are doing great and Naveen is being a great mother.  I'm going to keep this short and sweet and get straight to the pictures.  

Introducing the Second Chance Litter

The second chance litter was born yesterday evening.  Naveen free whelped 6 puppies from 5pm to 9:40 pm.  I thought there was a seventh puppy so at 2 am we were loaded up and headed to the ER vet.  False alarm.  I still don't know what I was feeling but palpatation by vet and xray confirmed that there wasn't anymore.  All puppies are doing great.  They have all gained 0.9 to 1.1 oz since their birth.  Naveen is a great mother.  She is so attentive and careful with them.  She's what like to see in a mom.

The pictures aren't the greatest but without further ado here they are, in birth order....

Merrybelle

Black and White Girl 11.0 oz at birth

Tuffy

Blue Merle Boy 12.4 oz at birth

He also happens to have a marking that looks like a tugboat, There is another picture further down that shows it a bit better.

Pouch

Black and White Girl 10.1 oz at birth

Valor

Blue Merle Boy 11.4 oz at birth

Titan

Blue Merle Boy 12.8 oz at birth

Hard to see in the photo but about a third of his face on the left side is black

Adonis

Blue Merle Boy 12.1 oz at birth

Who may also be the coolest puppy ever the bat signal on his back!

And for those of you not on a facebook here are some photos taken yesterday as they were being born

Another view of the tug boat. 

Puppy Count X-Rays

The second chance litter is due this week.  We went into the vet for x-rays to get an idea of how many puppies to expect.  Vet says there are at least 6.  Here are copies of the x-rays they took.  Feel free to make your own counts.  I'm at work and not able to enhance or change the contrast.  Please ignore her breed and date of birth.  I don't know what happened this morning, but they're not correct.  I'll take good medicine with silly errors like that any day. :)

Planned Breeding and Birthday Wishes

Now that things are finalized, I'm very excited to announce our upcoming breeding.  We will be breeding

Naveen - Spyrock Ebonwald Return to Sender

to

Morgan - GCH C-Myste Baledwr SN Getting Away With It

If she knows how to read the calender Naveen should be coming in sometime in May and will be bred on that cycle.  I'm very excited and feel very blessed to have the oppurtunity to do this breeding.  I cannot express enough thanks to Garrett Ramsay, Naveen's owner, for allowing us to lease her back to make this happen.  Therefore, this will be known as the Second Chance litter.

Also I would like to wish Naveen and all her litter mates from the Comeback Litter, Zoe, Bella, Mantra, Boom, Chief and Zhane a Happy Third Birthday!!!

Where we're going from here....

For those of you who may not know, Mantra (Crescent x Minnie) came back as mild dysplastic due to sublaxation.  Since there things I already wanted to fix on her front, I decided I didn't want to have to "fix" the rear as well and decided to spay her.  While she won't be going anywhere (she is my son's dog through and through) it was disappointing as she was our keeper puppy from our first litter in over 15 years.  Thankfully we didn't have the chance to be bummed about "losing" this breeding as Garrett, of Ebonwald Cardigans, offered to let me lease Mantra's litter sister, Naveen - Spyrock Ebonwald Return to Sender.  We are so grateful for this opportunity to lease this lovely girl.  While she is a fluffy girl, she still remains to be the pick bitch of her litter.  I'm very happy with how she's grown up and to top it off she's OFA Good! ;-)

Naveen has been with us now since the end of the September.  We are currently going to classes and will working towards a Rally title early 2015 and may see how she is on sheep.  She's in heat now but we don't plan on breeding her until her next cycle for puppies in mid 2015.  I have a couple suitors picked out, but waiting to make any final announcements until my first pick has some more health testing done.

Naveen at 9 weeks

Grown up Naveen

Mantra and Naveen - they are best buddies

Naveen at class

Naveen with her newly earned diploma

Mature Blue Girl Seeks Soulmate

After lengthy consideration, Zoe is available to a forever home.  We had intended on being her forever home but feel she would prefer a different home without small children.  She is 7 years old, crate trained, house broke, basic obedience trained (has earned her CGC), and has some herding training.  She's already spayed.  She gets along with other dogs.  She gets along with cats, but if they run she will chase.  She's been around horses and doesn't bother them across the fence or in the pen.  Her ideal home would be one that offers couch cuddles and a spare spot on the bed.  She loves to go and is up for whatever whether it be a long walk on the beach, spending the day at the gymkhana, or just hanging out at home watching movies.  If interested contact missy@spyrockcardigans.com for more info.