Sunday, February 28, 2010

This is Mercedes from Shadow and Remington








The pups are going home. All of ShayLAs litter has gone home.
Plus most of Shadows litter have headed to their new families.
So nice to see all the excitement when folks come to get their new family member.
Jarrod was over and helped me take some photos of the pups.
This is Mercedes from Shadow and Remington.
She is one of two girls growing up and waiting for a new home.



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Importance of outside training for pups

This is Sarah from ShayLA and Remington. She is now nearly 8 weeks old and will be going home They have been a great litter of 6 born right before Christmas 2009.
We consider them now in our raising process to be teenagers. They are in a playpen during the day and a crate at night and doing wonderful AS we have learned it is very important before a pup goes to their new family they need to have played in the grass and on concrete surfaces.
We gradually harden the pups in for going outside for 2-3 minutes at a time and then building up their stays outside playing. At first when pups go outside to pottie and play they will often just huddle and shiver in a pile of pups. After a few days of getting the new feel of cement and grass they become more adventurous. Right now after 10 days even with these cold winter days they are loving the outside and adapting. This part of the process makes it very easy for them to be house trained when they go home. Like all steps in the puppy raising process simple but very essential step in the puppys growth and ever expanding world.
It is alwasy fun to see the development of the litters pup by pup week by week
Richard