Puppy Update

We have a whole lot of news. 

Taffee is getting big. She is on a diet
of puppy chow and whole organic milk.

The first is a bit of old news. Laffee Taffee and Clarke Bar Grizwold are having puppies in a week to ten days. This is an unexpected litter and so we had to do a whole bunch of immediate preparation to make space for a litter in our tiny home. So we built an eight foot by eight foot addition to our tiny home. Taffee will have her pups in the laundry room and they will stay in there exclusively for the first few weeks, moving out to the addition during the daytime providing the weather doesn't turn cold.

We will keep this litter until ten weeks old. This will give the pups a chance to get a bit bigger, but also time the deliveries for Christmas time. It looks like there will be five or six this litter, so getting on the wait list is a very good idea.



Secondly, we took delivery on two new little females today. Abba Zabba, and Bit-o-Honey are nice little Bassets.

Abba Zabba on day one

Bit-o-Honey on day one

• Abba Zabba is a beautiful little girl, if she were from our kennel she would have received four and a half points (of the five). Look at out standards, and the reviews of previous litters to figure out what I mean. The half point she is missing is entirely in skin volume. She is too light weight and her wrinkles are not showing. She ought to grow out of this negative trait.  She has a superb coloring scheme, being mostly black with some red, and very little white fur. Her stance is that of a potential champion, but only time will tell if these winning traits continue on into adulthood. My first impression is that Abba Zabba is a bit of a handful, perhaps a chicken chaser.

• Bit-o-Honey is a very nice little pet quality Basset girl. She is developing a lot of brown fur, but she seems well suited to farm life. She would only have received three of five points due to inconsistent coloring and a less than desirable stance. My first impression of her was that she would be the most likely to escape the fence. 

Both came to us a bit lite in weight so it is hard to tell how they will wrinkle up once well fed. The male litter mates were nearly single colored (light brown), so there is a possibility that these new girls might throw single colored pups. The others have not yet  fallen in love with the new girls, but they will. Cinnamon has taken charge of training them for us.

We finally received the permits to build the new farm house. The new kennel facilities will be the first thing built after the house is occupancy ready. The new Kennel will act more as a living room for the dogs than anything resembling a regular kennel with stalls. There will also be a veterinary room for hot water grooming and puppy whelping. There will be two yards attached to the kennel, one for segregation and the other for daily use during business hours when the hounds cannot be allowed free run of the place. We will begin offering long termed boarding as soon as the thing is up and running.