Rebanne

No, actually, they're a place for snarky people, particularly those who were, apparently, BORN knowing everything about dogs,so they didn't have to learn from experience, to have a go at newbies Just LOVE how everyone is making assumptions here. yes it's a place to ask questions but you also need to do your own research about certain things which includes reading up about entire dogs and bitches and their possible behaviour before things like a first season crop up. Ideally you would have then had a plan in place to cope with your current problem. It would be nigh on impossible to get either into a kennel now, at least one that was any good. No one is born knowing anything about dogs but you teach yourself and yes that can be by asking questions on a forum but basic knowledge should have been self taught. Keep one or the other in a crate at all times, whether that is in the same room as each other while you are there, or in a seperate room. Do not leave them in the same room even if crated without you being there as dogs can and do break out of crates, particuarly when the incentive is so great. Also be aware that the bitch may well want him as much as he wants her. It's not just the male you have to be aware of. Ask your breeder if it is at all possible for her to take one, mind you if a puppy buyer asked me my answer would most likely be no as I don't have unlimited space and have my other dogs and cats to think of.

Pirie only has one R

I'll guess 5 Tris

I hope that's a typo, it's 63 days from ovulation.

my crate trained dogs stress big time at the vet's. The 2 dogs I have, out of 4, that were never crate trained both love sleeping in the crate in my bedroom and when Piper cut his foot and had to come to 2 days of shows for me he settled right down in a soft crate. I have 7 crates, only one up permamenly in my room, all the others are for the one or two dogs I take to a show I use baby gates in the house more.

what are they like on the hand?

we did have a great time but I hope not to be there in August ( hopefully will be home with puppies! )

I hate "birth" instead of "berth" when talking about dog trailers

Ta I'm pretty sure I'll be able to find something that she will eat, I'm more concerned about the milk productions and wehther the babies are getting enough milk. she's possibly adjusted her milk supply to only the 2 puppies, not the hordes she might have had! Fern's boobs were nearly impossible to see when she only had 2 pups and were never full and firm

I think you need to do a lot more thinking on whether you are actually ready to make such a big commitment, after all if it doesn't work out it is the dog that suffers.

my 40 kilo greyhound, 78 cms tall, sleeps in a 42 inch crate, you could fit 2 BC in one that large.

Oooh how excitement!!! So hopefully you, I & Tibbiemax could all be competing in puppy sweepstakes together? and won't that be fun

still intact around 3 pm when I last saw tibbiemax

weather has been near perfect

WOW

not important what was important was the rhubarb cake! thanks Morsha, very,very yummy

BPIG Clumber congratulations Thanks Rebanne... what a great day.. I posted elsewhere that it was a great day, gorgeous weather, the best banana cake, great friends .. BPIG and we get to do it all again tomorrow.... And if SWAY is lucky I might just glance in her direction with some derogatory remark.... for which no doubt she will have an ample comeback I didn't get any banana cake I love banana cake

I paid at sale of first pup, pup sold at 12 weeks old

BPIG Clumber congratulations

Miller broke a toe at 3 months, clean break not displaced. Bandaged for a week or two, confined for a month, toe is thicker than the others. He also has a thickened toe on one of his back feet. I assume he broke it at some stage when only weeks old.

Thats interesting - I was thinking that a false floor would work for a storage area but they have a trailer base worked out with drainage points so thats out. But maybe false roof with higher trailer. no to a false roof, would impede air flow, that's why I don't like wardrobes crosswise. Once filled with stuff it would impede airflow and mine would be filled to the roofline with stuff false floor would be very doable. Very slight fall with drain pipe leading to the outside

Only if I take her to her boyfriend. You'd better

but if you do go down this road get him collected first if he is good enough to breed from

OMG - I've got goosebumps reading that!!! Its actually more obvious in the photo than I had realised. I find the photo's taken looking down on top of the dog show the filling in of the waist line very early on, at least in Fern they did

For a small trailer I would like a wardrobe running the length of the trailer not crosswise. A 3 berth with a lengthwise wardrobe with a door on the end, not the side so I can slide my large gazebo in. Plus fit all the extra's