Tandy is growing up...

Little Miss Tandy, or Tandy Andy as she goes by, is doing well. She had a rough start to potty training but is on the right track now.

Tandy is going on small outings and getting taller but not bigger. Her sister Tarragon is in our club and she was a whole 2 pounds bigger than Tarragon at 16 weeks.

Claudi is not so sure about another baby puppy but she sure likes her stuffed puppy who we call Patrick:)

And for some Simon puppy news, his latest litter with Crumpet (featured on the Guide Dogs blog) went out to homes in May.

His daughter (and Claudi's sister) Chenille had an M litter and a F YLAB and M YLAB are coming to our club!!!

Natara Update

Natara left for her home almost two months ago now and is doing well. She is a spoiled girl now and loves playing with the family's Cocker Spaniel. They have a very cute game where he sits on the dog bed with a toy and she grabs the other side of it and gives him a ride around the hous
(they have wood floors). It's very entertaining and is so typical of Natara!


Here are a couple of pictures of her last day with us:























And here she is playing at doggie daycare! Oh the life of a career change. The second picture is of her and Claudi.

Visiting Ogden!

This is Ogden, the only Simon boy puppy we have raised. He arrived last May and was a starter puppy. We had him from May to July.

We keep in touch with his wonderful new family and recently Bethany was able to visit him.

Here he is all grown up at 14 months with Bethany. He certainly remembered her on first sight and got VERY excited. It was SO cute!

Here he is chewing on the toy Stef sent for him, a Goughnut.

And here he is being a good boy.

He has grown up so much from when he was last with us.

Happy Birthday Claudi!!!

Claudine is two years old today...and her brother Chaz is in phase TEN!!! :-)

Go Chaz!!

For Claudi's Birthday she played couch potatoe...here's some photos of her busy day at daycare yesterday :-)...

Natara is in her forever home..Tandy is here..and we miss Quebecy..

Natara & Quebec

Well, once again I have been bad at updates!

Natara was CCed a few days after little miss Q..Natara for distration issues..We were able to place Tara in an AWESOME home not too far from us with a mother and her 3 kids. They had been secretly hopeing to get Tara for a while and have already brought her in to play at daycare where we work..she is SOO happy and spoiled and looks GORGEOUS in her many many pink collars!!

Last Saturday we picked up puppy #5 (for me) and #15 (for Bethany)..Tiburon/Geraldine pup, Tandy..She is 10 weeks old and a very sweet girl..She seems fairly low energy and likes to cuddle with people and dogs..I was very sad to see that she is a very light yellow as I had expected a DARK Tiburon pup, but she is a sweetie and seems to fit in nicely..



TANDY
Quebecy is still waiting for her forever placement..We miss her very much..


Claudine's sister had puppies this week!! 7 of them! We can't wait to see/hear about them in a few months! We really really want to raise one, but who knows where we will be in the world of puppy raising by then????

THE perfect puppy that will never be a guide dog..

Well, Quebec has been career changed..Her strange health issue isn't getting any better-nor is it being diagnosed for certain..Basically, her joints are swollen and her body seems to be attacking itself..She is being put on prednisone for the short term and we are looking for the perfect home for the PERFECT puppy...

Because the whole house should be sick at once..right?

Claudi, Sidney & Quebec

Two weeks ago we came home to a very sick puppy..limping, crying, swollen legs..Little did we know that this was just the beginning of what seems like a never ending weeks of vet visits, carpet cleanings, trips to Guide Dogs, daily medications, waiting by the phone and on and on...

It all started with little Quebecy..What we thought may be pano turns out may be something more serious...What? We're still waiting for test results..but we do know that the poor puppy is on antibiotics, 2 different pain meds and is still a sore and sad puppy..

Quebecy..

Then there's Claudi our perfect little princess of a career change..our girl with IBS..our girl who has absolutely zero control of her IBS attacks when they happen..the girl who should be the cover girl for a carpet cleaning company..I guess Claudi didn't want to be outdone by the puppy because she ended up at our local vet with a severe IBS attack a week ago Friday..some blood tests were done and off we went...until Sunday...Claudi was one SICK pup...6 hours and $300 later we were home from the ER vet with a humpback lab pumped full of IV fluid!!

Swollen Claudi!
Oh but Wait! Natara could not be outdone by either of these pups! While we were in a rush to get to the vet we had left miss Natara alone in a room and needless to say a bored puppy is trouble! Tara decided to chew up part of a picture frame...2 days later miss Tara was throwing up etc and made her own little trip to the vet just to be safe...She was fine, but sent home with some meds...Because 2 dogs on meds in the house isn't enough...


Natara & her brother Niguel

As of today we await word on Quebec and took Claudi in for some new meds...an hour later Claudi is sitting here like a chipmunk-her face all swollen up from the prednisone that is supposed to be helping her poor stomach...Oh this poor dog...Wait..Poor Raisers!!