March 30, 2009

I can't believe two months has gone by since I last posted on my blog - oh my word - how the time flies.

Well - lots to tell - NO puppies for Dottie and Fergus - so sad. No puppies for Aussie and Suzannah either although Suzannah has a new forever Guardian Home and is ever so happy.





Suzannah on Canada Day 2008

Fergus has a new home also - be is living with Morey and his Guardian Family in Genelle. Morey and Fergus both came over from Australia together and are very happy to live together with their new family.

Nicole has finally found the perfect family - she is off to live her new life with Angie and her husband on Wednesday. They are all pretty excited about this new life they are beginning. We are thinking some really happy thoughts for them all and look forward to watching them all blossom.

Dora's puppies are over 10 weeks now - 2 have gone to Kathy, our trainer, for their 4 week training session - Indiana Floppy Ears Reno Morden (aka Indie) and Zelda - both their families are anxious for the time to be through and them to be winging their way home!! Dexter goes this weekend with my husband Tom to the Vancouver area to meet his new family. Tahoe, Mesquite and Carson are all awaiting the results of the Pawsitive ID testing so they can go on to become great new breeders for the Labradoodle community. That leaves little Vegas - she hasn't yet secured her forever family but we know it won't be long.

Sugar is in season - she is going to honeymoon with Morey at the end of this week. Pollyanna is due also and she plans on enticing Morey to stay a few days and honeymoon with her also. These two litters should be large mini to small mediums and there should be mostly creams and browns.

We have a new up and coming daughter of Sugar - Maggie (aka Gracie) who is due in season. We are at sixes and sevens over her mate - it's looking more and more like it will be MacDuff which will give us mini's again. We are really hoping for some phantoms in this litter. Maggie has phantom behind her and MacDuff is a phantom so - browns and brown phantoms is what we expect. Maybe a cream or two also.

Ginny is due in season at the end of April - our lovely small red standard darling is ready to find a mate for the first time. We really like Fergus and think they would really make some lovely reds but he is quite a little fellow that they will only be mediums in size and we really want some bigger babies this time. Have to do some thinking, come up with just the perfect man for our Ginny.

Renovations are well underway - the dogs finally made it into their new family room. Man - moving sure isn't all that much fun - both Tom and I are glad that is over but we have alot of work to do finding places for everything and putting everything in it's place!!!

That's a whole lota news for one sitting - better save something new for next time. I am going to try really hard to come back and blog more often.

TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)

Karen

Another Day Another Blog Edition

How has everyone been?

It has been busy as usual around Canadoodles.

DOTTIE & FERGUS

had their time together - we had to do two AI's (Kathy our trainer and great helper) and I. We are praying that they take because we were very late in her timing - keeping our fingers crossed.

We have 7 little puppies growing like weeds - they love to snuggle up close - my favorite thing to do. I have to confess that the brown female is really a heartbreaker but the blacks are just so luscious. The black girl has paws that look like that of a black bear cub - she is only a medium but what a medium she will be!!!

Almost have all the boxes emptied and put away from our move. It seems as though I just unpack a box, put it away, tidy up that area and there is another box to put away. Sometimes, when it gets late and I am tired I think "I just want to go home" and then I remember - I am home. My new adventure has begun and I need to join in, make a plan and get some rest.

Suzannah hasn't come into season yet - too bad - we are looking forward to mating her with Aussie "King Oberon" from Over The Moon Labradoodles. We haven't had a litter of creams for quite some time now - it will be fun to have only the light colors for a change.

Meet Sequoia - a new addition to our program. Sequoia is now 9 months old - she will be completeing her testing in May and looking for the perfect mate. Sequoia is from our dear Adelaide "Addie" who is now retired and our big strong and handsome man "Hogan". Look for Sequoia puppies in late 2009 or early 2010.

Time to go and play with the adults - they need some time with Mom this evening.

Talk again soon.

Sincerely

Karen

Hello Again



Well, it has been busy over the past days since I last wrote. We have moved, we are sort of set up - always lots of little things to do. I have not moved for 20 years, had alot less stuff back in those days also, moving is definitely not fun, don't want to do it again for another 20 years.



We have a fabulous new litter of puppies from Dora and Domino - 2 rich, rich ,rich gold females, a brown male and female and 1 black female and 2 black males - they are all scrumptious. These mediums have the chunkiest round bodies with beautiful full faces - nice short noses and shiny shiny healthy coats.



Our black and white spotted mini wonder Dottie is in season - she will be honeymooning with our little red Fergus. If we were to be ever so lucky we may have some reds, apricots, parti's along with the black and black and white parti's we think will arrive. Such fun little puppies are - I just love to snuggle with them right from the moment they arrive.



Our Quincy has found a loving Guardian home with two wonderful children to play with and we are hoping that our Fergus will be off to a Guardian home shortly also. Morey found one back in early January - he is happy as a clam. Now we need to find one for Dottie and possibly Quinn.



Andee and Quentin are looking to be breeders down the road - both are too young now but that is their ultimate goal.

Time for everyone to go out one last time this evening - hope to be able to post more soon.

Bye for now.

Karen

Today is our first day!

Obviously I will need alot of practice on using this system but it seems like it could be good fun and a great place to add information quickly and easily.I am computer illiterate mostly, I hope I don't bore the works of you with this challenge I have undertaken.

We are counting down the days to our moving day - possession is 8 days away. Moving isn't quite the most of it - rebuilding my grooming room and a happy place for the doodles is the ultimate goal.

Dora and Domino are due to be proud parents on the 17th of January (moving day) we are hoping for an exquisite litter of mediums in all the creams, reds, browns, and likely some blacks. Domino is such a beautiful black fellow with a luscious fleece coat - a few just like him would be lovely. Dora is a chunky lovely cafe - a few more just like her wouldn't hurt either.

The weather has changed over the last two days - from snow, snow and more snow to rain (quite a bit through the night) and lucky us - some sunshine moments today. The temperature has risen to a melting degree so with the rain and the snow, snow and more snow, we now have slop and lots of it.

Enough for today - I must resume my packing so I am ready when the movers are.

Karen