I haven't posted in this blog for quite sometime, but since I always like to repeat Mary Poppins "I want to make one thing perfectly clear, I never explain myself to anyone" I wont try to cap up the last two months or give reasons for not posting.

That said; I am currently down to the last poodle puppy born December 27th, 2009 and the last labradoodle puppy born January 4th, 2010. Once puppies start leaving it is nice to have one or two older puppies to play around with. These puppies get a lot of one on one time with us, we advance them along to crate training, leash training and out door potty training. Recently on some very nice and dry days, Suzi the poodle puppy, has gone along with my adult dogs to our local dog park. Suzi has been a little shy around new people in the past, so going to the park has been a great way of drawing her out of her shell as she greets and meets new people and dogs. A side note: I love our dog park. It is an old pasture and has no trees or water, just one bench and a bulletin board for notices. That's right nothing extra fancy about it. The reason I love it is because it doesn't have a high traffic level of dogs and their owners going in and out. Usually there's one or two other groups there and the dogs don't go in to sensory over load trying to "talk" to everyone there. Back to Suzi, she is coming along great with her training and has just the sweetest personality. She had a beautiful coat and I have trimmed into a puppy cut. On poodles this means that her face, feet and the base of her tail and down between her legs is cut close to her skin to about 1/4of an inch. The rest of her hair is left long and by now it has grown to about 4 inches. Yes she is a fuzz ball.

The last labradoodle puppy we call BB, which came about because we kept calling her belly button girl. When BB was born her mom bit her umbilical cord to close to her tummy and this resulted in a hernia that was about 2cm long. She definitely had an outty. We decided to hold on to BB until she was old enough to have a surgery to repair the belly button hernia and spade her at the same time. This way she only had to go thru one surgery and by doing this ourselves we were assured that it would be taken care of and wouldn't later become a more serious health issue. BB is really more like a BeeBee, she is always happy and on the go, buzzing around from one thing to another. Just a happy tail wagging little girl.

Soon we will find these two their new homes and we will be puppyless again for a short while, our Gretchen is due in July with hopefully many different coat colors. I have someone wanting a chocolate puppy. So we will see and be surprised and happy for what Gretchen delivers.