We Bought a Farm: Puppies begin to go "home"

Well, it's about that time around these here parts. Our eight little puppies are going home to their forever families. Here's Arabelle and Tijmen talking about how much fun they will have when there are no little puppies around to take care of:

And here they are thinking about the sad parts of the puppies leaving:

Okay, so here we go. Here are the pups in their last photo and with their new families!

#1 COLT

Colt is going to a local family that has three children under six. It will be their first family dog!

#2 "Bella" 

Bella is what we called this cutie. Not sure what her name will officially be, but her family flew into the Knoxville airport to pick her up. Oh how we are gonna miss this little cutie.

#3 Bianca

Bianca is actually going to the Law family. They are local friends of our's that adopted Meli from the first litter. Here is Meli meeting her little sister:

 

Puppies Update

We now have three of our doggies sold and one "probably" sold. So half sold within the first week! I had about that many "interested" before they were born. But you never know who will back out or make the jump. A puppy is not a little choice. 

Right now, Arabelle is still with the puppies nearly non-stop nursing and keeping them warm. They are still little blobs of fluff with no real distinctions in their personality. 

We look forward to spending the next eight weeks help preparing them for their forever families!!

 

Puppies, puppies everywhere!!

Arabelle had her puppies yesterday. She had nine. They all appeared to be doing well, but this morning when we took them to the vet, we noticed we had lost one. So eight awesome pups. Vet says this just happens sometimes. Sort of "nature's way." But we were still sad. In the end though we have:

• 2 girl black tri: these will look like Arabelle!
• 2 boy red merle: these will look like Ritter!
• 2 boy blue merle: these will be beautiful just like Finn from the last litter. 
• 2 girl liver/red-tri: these will look like Meli or Ruby from last litter. 

If you are interested a puppy, let me know! Don't worry about where you live. We can always seem to work that out. :)

Hello from the Ritter dog!

Hi my name is Ritter. I am the Daddy dog around these parts.

This is my main squeeze. Her name is Arabelle. Here's a picture of she and I showing off our best sides:

And here is both of us wrestling with our friend Cali. We love all the kids around these parts and have tons of fun with them:

We even talk them into hanging with us in our kennel if we are super sweet:

Or taking naps with us in random places:

We know we aren't allowed to get on the sofa, but we sure like to push it as much as we can:

Lately, my main gal, Arabelle, has been lying around quite a bit. Here she is out in the garden, just resting, while everyone is doing work. (That's Kari who went over to check on her.):

Rumor has it, she is lying around because she's got puppies in her belly. The family took her to the vet yesterday and found out how many puppies were in her belly. The vet wasn't "positive" because it was a little blurry still, but looks like 9 or 10 puppies will be coming in just under two weeks: