Continue where I left off yesterday

So Sunday I get a call from someone who has a deposit on a puppy, they want to come see her. All my puppy parents are encouraged to come visit their puppy anytime they wish so they can see their puppy grow and bond with their little fluff ball. Then someone else want to come again to look at the puppies a second time. I wash and dry six puppies. Then let puppies run around on the living room floor during the quiet time while we wait for people to show. This means watching them to see if they poo so it can be cleaned up right away. The puppies won't poo now when company's here. People come, people go. People come and put a deposit down on the puppy they think is most special to them, it is a good match. People go. I mix more de-wormer for adult dogs and puppies. Feed dogs and puppies. Puppies sleep, dogs sleep. I now have enough money to buy flea treatment for adult dogs. It's late summer, fleas are very active this time of year, the rest of the year we don't see them on our dogs. So I go buy flea treatment, $100. Stop by my parents to install a ceiling fan in my dad's "man cave" It looks very nice, my dad is very happy. I stay for dinner and watch a movie. I return home and treat five dogs for fleas, the sixth I can't treat for she is nursing and I can't risk puppies ingesting the pesticide. Crate the dogs so they can lick the treatment off each other's back. Check email, email is working. I have a new inquiring about our babies. Reply to email. End of weekend. Another worming treatment tomorrow.

Puppy breeder chores.

Okay so a typical weekend day at my home involves dogs and the care of dogs. I wake up at the same time I do during the week because Dutch thinks he is on a schedule and has to go outside at the same time everyday. So he gently wakes me up Saturday morning just like most morning with a little bark every few minutes until I finally sit up. So I get them all up and take them out to potty, then I take the poodles out for a 3 mile walk. Today is dewormerday, so I mix up dewormer med with canned dog food. That's the only way I can get them to eat it without spilling it. I get the liquid dewormed by the quart, it cost's 130.00. I will use up all of it, because it is a three day treatment. Back outside goes the dogs. We have a pond in our backyard where a couple of turtles lived and some gold fish. Hiedi and Emma hop in and get soaking wet with pond water. This being Saturday and there's a possibility that someone may want to come see the puppies, I wash Hiedi and Emma. Then I crate them to dry. I brush Dutch, Sadie and Fritz. Back outside for potty. Everyone back in and feed Gretchen her mommy meal again. I check my email. Nothing, :( It's now 1pm. I start trimming Fritz. My clippers aren't working right, I have to scissor trim him. 3pm brush hair off Fritz and let him go out for potty. Give Fritz a bath to wash off the hair the brush didn't get. Let dogs out to potty. Give Emma a hair cut, good thing she is small. Give Emma her second bath of the day. Check email, nothing. Thing must be broken. Clean ears and puck out ear hair. Poodles need the hair pucked out to prevent infection. Time for potty again. Prepare puppy health records for 10 puppies, cost .22 cents per record. Prepare and give puppies their first vaccination, cost 3.45 per shot plus .12 per needle. Potty again. Check email, have email. Someone wants to return and see the puppy she fell in love with. Respond to email. Eat my first meal of the day. Talk to sister and fellow breeder via email than on the phone. Watch puppies play in their pen. Think about what I have to accomplish tomorrow.

Sadness

Today was a sad day for us. We lost a puppy, a small boy. He was just too frail and even with the extra care he just never really gained weight like a puppy should. So tonight we care for the puppies and hold them just a little bit longer and tell them what little cutie pies they are. Look into their blue tinged trusting eyes and tell them that everything is okay and that they will soon grow up and be adopted by a loving family.
Goodbye Johnson.

Yard Work

Last weekend we did yard work. Besides the usual poo patrol. We finished covering over the neighbor's cheaply made fence with real fencing, and therefore blocking the view another foot and a half higher. Then we did a bunch of weeding and got some more pavers for pathways. In the winter it rains so much that our back yard turns muddy and then our dogs get all muddy too. Now I just need to find some kind of plants that can with stand dogs running over them.

For my son.

My younger son, J, left last Monday for Army boot camp.So I haven't felt very much like posting any thing new since. I heard from him today when he called to tell me that he is doing okay. After five days, he is still in processing and hasn't been assigned a platoon yet. It was so nice to hear from him, he's my baby you know. My 18 year old baby. His goal is Ranger training, which will add a few weeks to his boot camp training. So we don't expect to see him until Thanksgiving time. J is so smart and just a nice easy going kid. I miss him.

I been keeping busy with working and caring for the dogs. We have people coming over tomorrow to see the two week old puppies. Which means the puppies will be getting baths so they smell nice when the get held up to faces. It also fluffs their fur up a bit to show off their curly hair. Their hair is only a quarter inch long at two weeks, but it is long enough to see the waves that show that they will have lots of curls as adults.