Santa left 10 gifts under the tree

We're pleased to announce Leia and Rowan's litter, born on Christmas Day 2010. Labour started around 8 p.m. last night and this morning we have 10 pretty little babies - 6 girls and 4 boys. Leia is doing very well as are all the wee piglets...um, puppies. As with everything she does, Leia took it all in stride and was relaxed through the whole process. Brad and Amanda were here to watch the first 2 come along and Wendy and Andrea came for rest.

Waiting for Babies

Leia arrives today - Wendy says she's getting lazy and just wants to lie around. Judging from the size of her - I think I understand! We're not totally finished painting the whelping room yet, so Mark had better hurry up. Looks like babies are coming soon!

Merry Christmas!

Winter weekend

Had a lovely weekend talking dogs, training dogs, watching dogs. We had Danielle visit us from Pennsylvania to meet and play with our crew in consideration of getting a puppy. She decided the Rowan and Leia breeding and I'm sure she'll be pleased. Duncan and Helen came out on Saturday to train with Decoy and Cassie. We got to run our own dogs a fair bit, which was a nice change for us. Lunch at Camp 31 topped the great day. Classes on Sunday, as usual which was also fun. We have the winter class schedule all figured out. Now working on our training and trialing plans.