9 Days old

I am very happy to report that all 8 puppies and Momma Fawkes are all doing splendidly!
Mom finished up her antibiodics and is happily spending all of her free time cuddling and caring for her little ones.

The puppies spend all of their time eating and sleeping, but it is amazing how quickly they can crawl when they want to!

The puppies are just thinking about opening their eyes now. In some of the pictures you can just see the beginning of their eyes starting to open.
I uploaded about 50 pictures of the puppies to our photo album. Please check them out.


Off I go, to make Momma Fawkes Lunch! Today we are serving Puppy food in a gravy of puppy milk replacer, plain yogurt and just a dash of powdered liver. Yummy!

I believe that we still have 3 little boys looking for their forever families. Please feel free to send me an email if you have any questions.
lorettaspins@gmail.com

Happy Birthday!

Just a quick update

I just wanted to let everyone know that Fawkes had her puppies today. She started going into labor early this morning and had her first puppy at 10 am. By 11:30 I knew something wasn't right and called the vet. At 12:30 Fawkes had an emergency c-section. Fawkes is now the proud mommy of 7 little boys and 1 little girl. Fawkes is still quite tired but is doing ok. The little ones are healthy and Very Very Hungry.

I will add more pictures soon. I won't promise when because I may have to bottle feed the puppies.

More soon, Loretta

The Puppies are Comming!

We have had quite a stretch of quiet and we are VERY excited to have it end!
Fawkes and Saul have decided to have a litter of puppies!
In 9 short weeks (March 22, 2011) we will have little ones in the house again!
I have added some of my favorite pictures of Fawkes and Saul's previous litters of puppies.
Just for fun.
Fawkes and Saul cuddling under the Ash tree. Fawkes and Saul have the strongest bond of all of our Bichons, they love to spend time together.
Ahh, true love!

Fawkes giving kisses to one of her puppies.


Daddy Saul, supervising a trip to the park in November of 2009. It started snowing really hard about 10 minutes after we took these pictures.

Nothing beets taking a nap in the toy box!

We do have a waiting list started for our 2011 puppies. So far we have about 8 families waiting for a little princess and 2 families waiting for prince charming. Please send me an email if you have any questions about our puppies or would like to be added to our waiting list.

My email address is lorettaspins@gmail.com

Ta For Now,
Loretta

Happy New Year!

Minnie, Saul, Foxy, Rose and Esme wish everyone a happy and healthy 2011!
This Christmas we made dog treats for all of our friends and the favorite was Pumpkin Cookies!
The Recipe is

• 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Whisk together the flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add water as needed to help make the dough workable, but the dough should be dry and stiff. Roll the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick roll. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces.
3. Bake in preheated oven until hard, about 40 minutes.

I liked this recipe because the dough was very easy to work with. After cutting lots of shapes I ended up cutting the dough into strips with a pizza cutter and then twisted the strips before I put them on the baking sheet for interest.
Of all the cookies we made our Bichons loved these the best.
Because we made so many, we put extras in the Fridge so they would keep longer and they are still very crunchy and fresh 3 weeks after baking.

One word of warning, our dogs like the home baked treats so much they now are a little bit picky about eating store bought treats. They have even turned their noses up to I can't believe it's not bacon.

I feel very blessed to have my Bichons around me all year. My Bichons were a great comfort to me this fall as my Grandmother became very ill and then passed away in November. Although I spent a lot of time away from them while I helped care for my grandmother, they were always waiting for me and made sure to give me lots of love and kisses as soon as I returned home. I also should thank my husband and son who stayed at home and took extra good care of my girls while Saul and I were in Minnesota.

I have a feeling that one of our girls will be going into heat soon, I am not sure who, but we are looking forward to the pitter patter of little feet again. It has just been so gosh darn quiet in the house. We do have a waiting list started for 2011 spring and summer puppies but are always willing to add another family to our waiting list.
If you are interested send me an email at Lorettaspins@gmail.com

I hope you and your beloved pets have a safe and healthy 2011!
Happy New Year!

Getting Ready to go home!

We have had a very busy week. The puppies have learned to crawl up and down the stairs to get in and out of the house.
They will now follow us into the house or out into the yard.
This is a big time saver and a lot of fun!
We had a fabulous open house weekend and all of the puppies have found their forever families.

This is Claire.
Claire is looking forward to going home with her family Wednesday.

This is Lizzy(formerly Lady).
Lizzy is looking forward to finding out what a Minnesota is.

Pixie is looking forward to being a Corn Husker, out in Nebraska.

Dash(formerly known as Wash) is very excited to be going home to live with his older half brother Buddy.

Bella(formerly Libby) is looking forward to getting mom all to herself for a week before she finds out what a Minnesota Gopher is.
I did put up pictures of the puppies at 6 weeks old.
I hope to take more pictures of the puppies today, as the puppies are now 7 weeks old. This weekend was just to busy to get photos with the garden, Kim moving back to the dorms and Kim's 20th birthday party. The puppies had a lot of fun playing with the Soft E, Com Sci, Math and Entomology students that came to the party.

I guess We had better run, Sam starts school this week so the puppies and I will be really busy this week as well.
Ta for now,
Loretta

We went to the Park!

Yesterday the puppies were very busy. We went to the vet and had a check up and first set of shots. Then we went to Ames while Kim had glassblowing and tried to find a park that wasn't flooded to play in. It took about an hour to find a nice dry park to play.


This is Princess Libby. Libby is the only puppy from this litter still looking for her forever family.

Spike(formerly Wash), Pixie and Lady, look like Charlie's Angels!

Claire, Libby and Spike checking out the bubble.

Spike, Lady and Pixie playing at the park.
I uploaded about 100 pictures of the puppies playing at the park to our photo album. They are not labeled because it gets hard to tell them apart.

The puppies have been going out side for short periods of time because it is just soo hot, and we were only able to play at the park for about an hour because of the heat, so I thought it might be a good time to tell everybody a few tricks to help keep your puppy or dog cool.
My Favorite hot weather treat is a
soda bottle filled with water and then frozen.
Puppies and Dogs can lay next to or on top of the bottle to cool off, they sometimes will chew on the bottle as well.
A Frozen Damp or wet towel
By soaking a towel and then wringing it out and tossing it in the freezer (in a plastic bag or box) gives your pet a cooling blanket on the really hot days.
Iced Water
Some dogs just love to chew on Ice but others just like a really cold drink when it is super hot.

Of course our adults just love the AC and only go outside for short periods of time. We keep lots of cold fresh water available at all times and have been giving the grown ups and puppies dry food soaked in water to give them just a little extra hydration during this really hot weather.
Thank Goodness it is supposed to cool off a little next week.
If you have any questions about our puppies, please feel free to send us an email at
Lorettaspins@gmail.com

Have a great week and stay cool!

Open House Weekend!

We are soo excited to be having our Last open house weekend of the year!

The puppies have been talking about it all week and are very excited to meet all the families that are coming to visit. The puppies are so excited to meet their new families and maybe get a new name.

This is our Prince Wash. Wash is a laid back little prince who loves to cuddle.

This is Princess Pixie.
Pixie is the smallest puppy of the litter but she doesn't let her size hold her back.

Princess Libby is a quiet laid back little girl. She doesn't stray too far from mom yet.

Princess Lady is our little super model, she loves to have her picture taken.
She also loves to be the center of attention.

This is Princess Claire (formerly Princess Scarlet). Claire has already picked out her family and is very excited to have a big family to go home with, maybe next year she will get to go on vacation to grandma's house too.
This week I took lots of pictures to share.
The puppies even posed for pictures with Dexter, our Pot Bellied Pig.

This weekend the puppies will have lots of firsts. The puppies will try on leashes and maybe some t-shirts. We will have lots of fun meeting new families and the puppies will taste all the shoe laces.
The puppies are looking forward to a busy weekend. We still have 2 puppies looking for their forever homes - please send me an email if you have any questions at
lorettaspins@gmail.com

Have a great weekend!
Loretta