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Fantasy Pups
Video taping puppies can be a real trick! Either they are running in every direction, or they are sleeping! Each presents its challenges. Today, you get to see sleeping. Zzzzzzzzz! Normally, videos like this don;t make the cut, but we are anxious to get a video up and weather and puppies are not cooperating. We figure snoring is better than nothing, right? So here is five minutes of snoring puppies.... You can identify the puppies by the color of the collar: George = black, Faith = yellow (Martha), Toasty = orange (Abigail), Phoebe = purple (Dolly), and Goldie = red (Betsy). But we can do better. Puppy activity increases with each week of life, and a week from now the challenge will be herding puppies so that we can capture their faces on film. But at least that's more action, so look for another video of our five Revolutionary War heroes next week! For now, you can use this video to help you get to sleep at night. ;-)
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This week, families adopting from Marshmellow's litter should look for an email with your puppy invoice. I will be accepting checks postmarked by July 29th. Details will be in your email.
This weekend, I will have a photographer come to take individual puppy photos of Marshmellow's litter. I hope to have photos posted by Monday. The puppies are getting more playful and active, so also starting this weekend, I will be having my son look out for videotaping opportunities. Videos are a lot of fun so I hope we can get one of those up next week. Marshmellow's puppies have started on solid food - well, mush to be accurate - and with the solid food, along comes the puppy poop! Already, the pups are learning to use their puppy poop trays. That is not the sweetest aspect of this business, to be sure! We keep a box of Kleenex next to the puppy pen, however, so that whenever we notice the puppies have made "a deposit" - with all the pups going it is quite frequent! - we can whisk it away. Fortunately, my niece comes over every day to replace the tray with a clean one. Calliope "Sadi" Mercedes and "Jazz" Jasper are pleased to announce the birth of four puppies: a female and four males, all 7 ounces. The three males were born first and in quick succession, but the last came so long after the first three, everyone thought we were done and my Mercedes had already been moved from the whelping room and parked in the nursery before the last one entered the light of day. See the new litter page for important dates and Calli's New Litter photo page for new photos as they come in! Puppies from left to right: Elijah, Juan, Carmel, and Simon. Here is the data we have on the little tikes. All are ginger colored, though they vary in shade from light to dark; all are heavy birth weights: 7 ounces. These weights and colors will alter as they age, however.
Marshmellow's 2019 pups were born a week early, but made up for it by opening their eyes a week late! At long last, however, we have photos of them that show them starting to look more canine and less "rodentine". Abigail and George are beginning to show some curl to their coats, but in time, all will have the characteristically wavy Schnoodle locks . Check out the litter page to see these photos! We plan on having our photographer return in a week to photograph these pups again, and will be posting the next Marshmellow litter photos near the 27th. Then we will start picking!!!! We like to pick a "theme" for each litter based on some circumstance at the time of the birth or naming. These themes help us remember a puppy from one litter to the next by placing it in a particular context, but the names themselves are "disposable", since every family picks the best name for their puppy as they grow to love it. This time, we picked Revolutionary War figures, primarily because we live near the childhood homes of George and Martha Washington, but also because it was near the Fourth of July. I hope you enjoy these pictures!
Although Calliope is due to deliver her second litter tomorrow, today our thoughts are on her first litter, because Calliope's first litter turns half-a-year old today! Hurray!
To celebrate the occasion, I have posted all the recent photos that I have been receiving this past week from those happy and proud families who have adopted her little ones. You may recall that we named this litter after the planets - or was it Greek gods? - since their mother's name is the goddess of epic poetry. (Although my son points out we used the Latin names of these gods rather than the Greek for the puppies, but I say, "who but my son would notice such a detail?") But they all have new and improved names, and those are on the page as well. See how big and beautiful they have grown! |
BreederHello. My name is Marie, and I have three Schnauzers that fill my life with joy! With the help of my children and grandchildren, I am raising Schnoodle puppies and placing them in good homes. Feel free to browse through my website and enjoy the pictures! Archives
February 2020
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