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Thanks guys :) I'm pretty chuffed and find DOL inspiring photography wise.

Awesome, great work! I think you need to post some more photos in here!

Well since you asked...

March - Bronze - Set Subject: Texture (ETA - This looks a bit soft at low res, it's better on my screen)

March - Novice - Silver (And graded out of novice at this point)

Update:

Feeling very chuffed to have earned my first Silver in the Open category at camera club! Massive thanks to CC whose lens it was shot on :D

Since I started this thread I have only had one meeting where I failed to pick up an award :)

I have earned

3x Bronze in Set Subject, 1x Silver in Novice (then graded out of Novice) and 3xBronze in Creative. It's been a massive learning curve, but I feel like pushing myself every month has really improved my photography.

Thanks Underfoot :)

Pups are 3 weeks old today! They are all doing well and are starting to become very aware of the world and thier litter mates. So cute!!

I don't think there is a standard fee. I talked with the stud dog owner and came to an arrangement where a higher than average stud fee was paid for the whole collection. There were multiple breeding units and since there is no 'return' we agreed that from 0 - X amount of litters the fee was set. If additional litters were conceived after our X point then an additional average priced stud fee would be paid for each litter.

I paid for all collecting costs via the import agent but the stud owner went to one of their vets.

(ETA - Don't want to post too many specifics from my contract, I'm paranoid! So I have used X and average price.)

Buy Understanding Exposure and read it cover to cover (twice!) And join a camera club if you have a good one near you.

All my pups at 15 days

We are now 18 days and they are bigger!! :D

Zora's nose seems to have become a little dried out, it's not dehydration or anything, I'm thinking it's all the puppy pee. Does anyone know something safe to put on it?

From their FB page

"Due to the facebook negativity of the raffle and threats to Jamie, the puppy raffle it has been cancelled.

A donation will be give to Jamie.

"

Mine are 17 days now. All have thier eyes open and today we introduced solids, so they have all had a snack too :).

I am expecting ears open any day now and have started putting 'strange' items in the box as well as using change of bedding as a chance to introduce them to some new surfaces.

Found that funny in that I ticked "I want my dog to come bird hunting with me." yet Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen and German Pinscher are rated 3 and 4, maybe they think I just want company and not an actual dog that can hunt birds :laugh:. Brittanys came in 5 and the only other dog in my top 5 I would consider was a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. The top 10 is very very random and hardly any gun dogs made top 10 but American Eskimo Dogs did

Puppy peepers!! (This was taken this morning, over the course of the day they have opened more)

Kristin none of them need collars as thier markings are all so unique, but I think pups who wear ribbons then collars so much when they are little are very tolerant of collars and the like when they are older. :) Just my theory and may be completely wrong.

Have a photo, just need to put it on my computer and upload it.

Well done Audrey and Nevafollo! Sorry to hear about the little lost ones but congratulations on your very even litter.

Little Sky Blue became the first of my litter to open his eyes :)

Just did 6 pups and an adult dog. Pups are 11 days old and already on thier second trim!

Oh wow Nevafollo! Thats a huge litter.

Quite content with just 6 :) They are getting close to opening their eyes I think - they are quite loosely closed now.

ETA - Attached a graph of all my pups weight gains.

Wow Nevafollo she is huge!!

Trisven little fuschia is a little powerhouse, she is not being supplemented anymore and is making substantial gains. Plus she is holding her own on the boobs against her massive brothers. :)

Here she was at 2 days, you can see she had no fat on her at all.

Here she is at 7 days, she doubled her birthweight by 6 days old! ETA - She is being held by my brother who is quite a large man, so even though she looks small still she has grown quite a bit.

My litter was a week old yesterday! All of them doubled their birth weights by 7 days (most were double at 6 days!). Zora is still taking care of them but is getting a bit stir crazy :laugh: She has started destroying things (raided the recycling and ripped up a juice box, stole and tore up the toilet paper roll from the bathroom etc) so I have had to resume her training.

Last night was the first time I slept through the night since the pups were born :D That means I'm moving back to my own bed tonight, very relieved after spending almost two weeks on air beds or my couch.

Forest7Days-1 by Astrelis, on Flickr

Hills L/D is recommended for dogs suffering liver disease.

Oh and the black and white gorilla shot is great. None of my ones of her turned out - this one really shows her expression so well!

They are all great CC! Love the meerkat on the mound, the otter eating and the lizard - the texture on the wall really suits the picture!

Dishlicker coats on EBay.

Haven't heard anything for a while. Hope all is well Oso.

So sorry to hear that Oso . Fingers crossed the rest goes well.

Yes it is Bisart, but that is something for the bitch owner to determine not something the stud dog owner can help :) . That probably wasn't worded all that well but if I had a choice of two similar dogs with similar lines and one had proved it could still do the traditional work of the breed and the other couldn't it's really a no brainer for me. Although I am in a 'dual' breed where working ability must be maintained or we will end up being a split breed, with show and working lines like too many other gundog breeds.

Given it's now come out the OP has Poodles it's probably not that relevant a comment now. :)

Thanks Tris. She is super small but is keeping up pound for pound weight gain wise with some of her bigger siblings. I wan't exaggerating when I said half the size, she was born literally half the average weight of the rest of the litter!

Zora is being such an awesome mum and is so aware of all her pups.

I would also be interested :). Pretty sure Sparky Tansy would too.

Oh after I posted last night we had a sixth pup, a little boy. So CC ended up guessing correctly :laugh: