And Then There Were Three

Not the three pictured here, Lucas, Sloan and Letty, but really like this picture that Ron got last week.  Weather and Sloan have departed for new homes and Virgil will be leaving soon.  It's been such fun!

Health checks went well and the pups got thorough exams - eyes, ears, mouths, throats, bites, patellas (knee caps), shoulders and hips (for normal range of motion), heart rate, respiration, etc. Have ever had such thorough puppy exams before.  The pups checked out well and behaved nicely.  A pen was set up for them in the exam room, which was so much easier than carrying them in and out one at a time.

On Saturday we went down to Rochester for BAER (hearing) testing and there were no surprises there.  We knew we had 4 bilateral and 1 unilateral hearing and the testing confirmed that.  Unis function just fine but have trouble locating the source of sounds. We were very pleased with the litter stats overall, as we had no patches or blues, excellent trim and some spectacular spotting.

Rosie drove up to meet us in Rochester and as expected she picked Weather as her puppy from the litter, allowing me to keep and place Sloan for her since I had a good home waiting for him. Reebok went home with Rosie too, so the house is getting quieter!

I had planned to keep the companion pups until 8 weeks, but because Tabitha is a stay at home mom there really was no reason to make her wait until the following weekend to pick up Sloan.  If she can raise pups as well as she raised little Simon, he'll turn out well!  Simon was a doll.  Sloan's name is now Lego and we hope to see him in the Rally ring and possibly Agility someday.

So that leaves Letty, Lucas & Virgil.  Robin is supposed to pick up Virgil next weekend, and Lucas will stay with me for a few more weeks, eventually going to live with Jess and Don.  In the meantime, I'll start working with Letty and Lucas, teaching them to sit, stand and walk on leash.  The sooner you start training a puppy the better, but mostly I'll just enjoy them!

Thanks to Rosie for allowing me to lease Reebok and breed her to Argus.  It was such fun!

Not to be forgotten, Argus and I did our usual dog park visit on Sunday where he made more new friends.  I had hoped that by playing with dogs at the dog park he would not be so determined to "meet" all the dogs we see on our walks.  Didn't work that way as he is more than ever convinced that he should meet and become friends with every dog!