This picture was taken by Pearl’s handler, Adriano for an ad we are putting into an all-breed magazine. Turned out nice.

Well, almost a repeat of about a year ago. Last December, Merry and PJ had their litters two days apart. This year it will be a bit farther apart, about two weeks as Merry is due around the 8th and PJ is due around the 24th. The vet counted 8 with today’s sonogram. Last year she counted 6 and PJ actually whelped 15. Unfortunately we lost 8 — just too many. And PJ is not a big eater and although normally she carries nice weight, with her pregnancy, she became thing with all those babies growing. So, this time we are going to try to keep her from doing that. Already trying different foods. Merry will eat anything and I usually give my pregnant girls both the cooked food I make and Wellness canned puppy food both of which the gobble up. Not PJ. She sometimes eats the cooked food well and often eats only about half the canned food. Today, she at the cooked food pretty well and ate up all the scrambled eggs I gave her and a good bit of turkey lunch meat. Then she ate half my dinner – baked potato and a piece of beef. Whatever it takes!!!

Casey had a playdate with his uncle. Softly is littermate to Daddy Mondo. I’ll tell you how he got his name. When his new momma to be asked why I was not keeping him to show/breed, I said, well he has a rather soft temperament and that sometimes doesn’t make for a good show dog because instead a softie just wants to be home body. Next thing I know, she named him Softly. So, here is Uncle Softly playing with big boy Casey. Casey was the largest boy at birth from the first litter Merry and Mondo had. Hard to believe that Merry is about to have her third litter — all sired by Mondo because they’ve been so wonderful. and this is Casey when he was a baby on the day he left being held by his new “daddy” — too pretty…

The unknown dog in the pictures below is Sebby. His “momma” emailed me identifying him. Love pictures of my babies!!!!!!!!!!

first picture is Pearl and Nelle, next is Alistar and then he with his bro Viktor and the last picture I’m not sure so if you recognize your dog, let me know…

Beautiful picture taken by Nelle’s momma — Anne. Nelle is a Peri daughter who has her real momma’s expression. I love her expression in this picture – you can see her intelligence her eyes!!!

Sonogram saw 9… so excited — I always am — just live for this!!!!! So we will have babies around December 8th!!! Here is Merry playing with some of her first puppies…