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| Rusty |
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| Rudi (was Blaze) |
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| Coy (right) |
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Crufts
No time... no time... no time. Wahhhhh. Must make time to blog. Must make time to blog.
Crufts... flipping awesome. Scandal... even more awesome than awesome... haven't yet thought of a word that covers that. Here is a video of her winning the championship jumping by over half a second. Love this run. Happy Char :-)
Crufts... flipping awesome. Scandal... even more awesome than awesome... haven't yet thought of a word that covers that. Here is a video of her winning the championship jumping by over half a second. Love this run. Happy Char :-)
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Pups hit 4 months and a catch up
Time flies. Two months in to 2013 already. AHHHHHHH.
Life is great, and very very busy. Rix had his 14th birthday last week. Ahhhhh. Love him.
Scandal and Honey are looking good. I did realise last weekend that it was only 3 weeks until Crufts and Honey hadn't had any training since before Christmas. Luckily Imogen has been staying with us this week and has done some training with Honey (which Honey clearly enjoys FAR more than training with me ;)). Seems that Honey has enjoyed the break and is keen to be back. I'm loving Scandal being back at training, she is so easy to handle... she's perfect :)
Jed is now KC registered and I've entered him in his first KC show *faints*. His attitude towards training is superb, and he is now gaining control of his long legs, although I do feel that I am handling a pony rather than a 'normal size' dog... he is huge. He has filled out a lot now, and has put back on all the weight he lost in the autumn.
And finally, some pictures of the pups at 4 months old. I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing all the lovely photos of them enjoying life with their new owners... thank you for all the updates :) last week 5 of the pups met up for a play at Lee's field. Here are some of the photos (plus one of Ru too, as he is beautifulllll).
Life is great, and very very busy. Rix had his 14th birthday last week. Ahhhhh. Love him.
Scandal and Honey are looking good. I did realise last weekend that it was only 3 weeks until Crufts and Honey hadn't had any training since before Christmas. Luckily Imogen has been staying with us this week and has done some training with Honey (which Honey clearly enjoys FAR more than training with me ;)). Seems that Honey has enjoyed the break and is keen to be back. I'm loving Scandal being back at training, she is so easy to handle... she's perfect :)
Jed is now KC registered and I've entered him in his first KC show *faints*. His attitude towards training is superb, and he is now gaining control of his long legs, although I do feel that I am handling a pony rather than a 'normal size' dog... he is huge. He has filled out a lot now, and has put back on all the weight he lost in the autumn.
And finally, some pictures of the pups at 4 months old. I LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing all the lovely photos of them enjoying life with their new owners... thank you for all the updates :) last week 5 of the pups met up for a play at Lee's field. Here are some of the photos (plus one of Ru too, as he is beautifulllll).
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| L to R: Zephyr, Coy, Rudi, Rusty and Jinx |
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| L to R: Rusty, Jinx, Coy and Zephyr |
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| Rusty, Coy and Rudi |
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| Jinx |
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| Zephyr |
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| Ru |
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Border Collie epilepsy
I've posted this on FB before, but below is a link to the new UK Border Collie Fitting Database. The more people who add their dogs to this, the more information we will have when breeding our dogs. It is such a taboo subject, I only wish people felt they could discuss it more openly.
The link to the database is here: UK Border Collie Fitting Database
The link to the database is here: UK Border Collie Fitting Database
Friday, 28 December 2012
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Puppies 9-10 weeks
A little update on the puppies; I am sure most of you who read the blog get to see the photos on FB too, but in case you don't, here they are:
Must get an up to date one of Jinx :-)
xx
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| Coy at 10 weeks |
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| Coy taking it easy |
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| Rudi, Coy and Rusty (posing) |
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| Rumour |
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| Rumour |
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| Rusty... posing |
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| Rusty with his special good luck message to Scandal for Olympia :-) And a video of Zephyr :-) |
Must get an up to date one of Jinx :-)
xx
Monday, 24 December 2012
Twas the night before Christmas
And the dogs are not stirrring... apart from Honey, who is currently running round with a shoe in her mouth.
I knew I would have a busy couple of months and I probably wouldn't update my blog for a while but nearly 3 months... slightly longer than intended.
The puppies are now all settled in their lovely new homes. I couldn't have asked for more lovely people to take care of my babies, I was so proud as each puppy went off with their new owner. Scandal was amazing throughout the whole thing, and I would love to repeat the mating in the future and keep a puppy - I would have loved to keep one this time round but with Scandal only being 4, and 'life' being pretty busy right now, I didn't think it would be fair on the pup or the other dogs to keep one. I tried to raise the puppies as I would if I was keeping one for myself, so they met lots of people, had lots of toys to keep them entertained, had lots of surfaces to run on (and attempt to use as tuggies), met the other dogs (they all loved Rix), met the cows, watched the tractors, and of course met lots of people. I think they were pretty confident (very naughty) little pups by the time they left.
I have loved getting 'pupdates' from the new owners on how the pups are all getting on in their new adventures.
The puppies are now coming up to 11 weeks. Here are a few pictures of them at 7 weeks. I will do another update with some more recent photos of a few of them.
7 weeks: (pics by Mark Taylor)
I knew I would have a busy couple of months and I probably wouldn't update my blog for a while but nearly 3 months... slightly longer than intended.
The puppies are now all settled in their lovely new homes. I couldn't have asked for more lovely people to take care of my babies, I was so proud as each puppy went off with their new owner. Scandal was amazing throughout the whole thing, and I would love to repeat the mating in the future and keep a puppy - I would have loved to keep one this time round but with Scandal only being 4, and 'life' being pretty busy right now, I didn't think it would be fair on the pup or the other dogs to keep one. I tried to raise the puppies as I would if I was keeping one for myself, so they met lots of people, had lots of toys to keep them entertained, had lots of surfaces to run on (and attempt to use as tuggies), met the other dogs (they all loved Rix), met the cows, watched the tractors, and of course met lots of people. I think they were pretty confident (very naughty) little pups by the time they left.
I have loved getting 'pupdates' from the new owners on how the pups are all getting on in their new adventures.
The puppies are now coming up to 11 weeks. Here are a few pictures of them at 7 weeks. I will do another update with some more recent photos of a few of them.
7 weeks: (pics by Mark Taylor)
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| Zephyr (Inferno), Rusty (Scorch) and Rudi (Blaze) |
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| Rumour (Sizzle) and Coy (Tottie) |
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| Jinx (Spark) |
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| Zephyr |
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| Rusty (the poser of the litter!) |
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