All the pups have been gone a few weeks now. Just over 10 weeks old now.

Its a lot quieter on the “dog side” of things. But work has kept me occupied :-)

For Zanna the way the pups left one by one for a week was excellent. She didn’t have any “withdrawal symptoms” because of this slow re-homing. It was also good for me and the rest of the dogs.

The reports I receive from the new owners are all really positive. I’m so proud of the pups, what a little troopers they are! The owners are doing great, quite a feat sometimes with these lively and every now and then stubborn pups. Most pups are sleeping though the night 7 to 8 hours without having to be taken out for a “pit stop”. The reports of the pups going to busy markets etc you could start to think boring as all say that the pups are unfazed, ha, ha such excellent news.

Only a few photos as the downloading is taking to much time for my patience… Not sure if its my computer or Blogger but this little post I try again a day later.I really want to post this now.

Cash behind the “Cash wall”



Snoopie relaxed in her German home

Just a quickie to say that all but one of the pups has left the nest and the reports from the new owners are all very positive!
They are all happy and busy pups keeping their family from getting bored ;-).
Teddy is still with me, looking for a new home but in the mean time being a perfect baby. Even for me it was kind of an exciting time since she was the only puppy since yesterday. But she has blenden in with the big dogs even sleeping in my room as if she has always done that. Up till yesterday she sleept with her brothers and sisters in the whelping box. I hope she will keep this trend up.
Photos of all sorts to follow soon but now its time for me after an awfully early start at work this morning to say "good night world see ya later".

We are down to 3 puppies now.

Saterday Cash (Brownie) left us.
He had his last meal from me that he ate with much enjoyment

Then he was aloud to have his goodbye drink from his mum.

And he was kind enough to pose for us and smile for the camera.

And said his goodbyes to Kiwi


3 and 2 days later and the news is only good news, Cash and Donos owners are very proud of there boys. Already the stories they tell me make me laugh so much. Lagotti are just plane cleaver and do the most surprising things! The owners are surprised with the amount of energy this little guys have.

The very best news is that Dono is fully accepted by Luna, his little terrier sister with the heart of a lion and the attitude of a dragon ;-). I was lucky enough to see the first time they played together, the day after his arrival, and it was truly heart warming. It happened totally unexpected when Luna walked up to Dono, hang over him at which point something appeared to click in her mind and she started teasing Dono to play. He was a little suspicious at first but being an excellent specimen of a Lagotto this suspiciousness only lasted about 5 seconds and away they went. Running around, under, over.. well whatever you can imagine they did. No turning back now, Luna and Dono are official!!!

Cash settled into his new home straight away, eating well from the start. He has gotten used to the home-trainer of his owner realizing she isn’t going anywhere fast on that kind of bike. While I was talking to his owner on the phone this evening he was such a good boy by going on his own outside to pooh! Hearing such things makes a breeders heart glow :-)

Today Iza, Aussie, went to her new home where her half brother already lives. I’m sure she will love it there because she loves having another dog to play with. Kiwi will miss her, they played together so often!
Iza had her last meal from me, but Zanna has decided that she has done her job and to my surprise she didn’t feed them this morning and isn’t planning to do so again I don’t think.
Nature is so impressive knowing when the best time is to wean babies with out any help from us humans. I let Zanna feed as much as she wanted, when she wanted and feed the pups myself when I felt Zanna was “telling” me that it was time.

But Iza didn’t mind and after her breakfast she settled for a sleep with her hippo, a play with a noisy plastic pig, a cuddle from her new owner and a last “Kiwi get together” with her sisters Teddy on the left and Snoopie on the right (Iza in the middle).





Iza left with her very happy owners and I felt good. Not sad but happy that Iza was off to make this family an even livelier and happier one. I wonder how the first night will be, its probably one of the things most on my mind after the puppy leaves. Wondering if they will eat alright is also a thought but not a worry as I feed them well, esp. before they leave, so they have a good “reserve”.

And like I said we are down to 3 puppies. Poor Spot has the heavy responsibility of protecting so many girls, yesterday 8 and now “only” 7.

This evening I took all the dogs, including the 3 pups for the first time, to the park for a walk…ok not so long as the pups cant go so far but they sure exercised those little legs even while I laid for a long time in the grass enjoying the evening sun. They loved it and ran and played as if they had always done this.
I’m ashamed to say that I forgot my camera. Something I’m piss about because it was so much fun I could have made great photos of such happy dogs and puppies. Oh well perhaps tomorrow…

Oh forgot to place this photo to show you how the babies fill up the wheping box when sleeping. Not that they spend much time in there any more :-)

Time goes so fast. Already its time to start saying farewell to the puppies.

“Winston Dono of The Kakapo Nest” was the first to leave.
This morning his proud owners, already for year’s wonderful friends of mine, came and picked him up. We dank a few cups of coffee and talked a lot about all the things they needed to know about keeping and feeding their little gem. Then they helped me take some nice photos of each puppy for the pups own page…. And then it was time for them to leave and again, just like the last 3 litters, I was hit by the fact that it was time for goodbyes.
Its going to de a difficult week as every few days a puppy leaves to his/her new home. But all are going to lovely homes and that softens their leaving. And I'm hoping the slow out flow of Zanna's puppies will also soften the "loss" for her.

Dono’s last meal from me.


Dono’s last meal from Zanna. Too cute how he can sit on his bum real comfortable to drink his “goodbye dessert”.


Dono laying close to his new big sister Luna. She is a real bossy lady but Im sure Dono will give her all the room she needs to get used to him. Luna is amazingly nice to the pups considering she doesn’t think pups are fun at all LOL. In short time she’ll probably be protecting him from the big bad world ;-)


Already I find myself thinking "wheres the last one?" when I count the pups.

Every now and again I let my dogs gorge themselves. This is actually a very “doggy” thing to do. In the wild canines eat as much as they can after the kill and then spend ages lazing around, eating nothing for a long time after.
There are dog owners that use this way of feeding and feed there dogs just a few times a week and the other days nothing.
Being much to much human orientated I don’t do this although I don’t think its wrong at all.
But I am “practically minded” and feed what fits my days. Usually I feed them twice a day and sometimes once a day. I don’t feed at fixed times so my dogs are never begging for their food “because its time”. And if I can’t divide the food easily I give it whole and let the dogs sort out who gets what when.
And that is what happened today, I had 3 sheep heads. 3 are enough for all the dogs but not enough for them to feed all at once. So some are first while the others wait patiently till its their turn. Tieka likes to be second, preferring a “pre-chewed” bone as apposed to a fresh one. So things sort out themselves with no interference from me.
Again my big blanket came into operation. This blanket was well worth my 3 euros I spent to buy it at the second-hand shop :-)


Puppy clean-up


Zanna was so full she found a quiet place to hang out and recover where the puppies couldn’t bother her… on my stairs LOL.

Today friends of mine came to visit the pups.


They have a puppy out of Zanna’s first litter called Nina. She is wonderful in character and looks… yes it’s a proud brag, I’m sorry :-)
Nina, half sister of the pups, thinks the pups are so cool!
Here you can see a cleaver plan of her little brother to even the height difference ;-).


I really enjoy meeting these friends but they have to stop secretly taking photos of me doing silly things with the puppies :-/
This is Teddy learning to be a muppet.

And ummm yes well, ok I was telling Teddy that yoga was very good to do. Yeah ok... maybe not for her but it sure gets her used to doing silly things ha, ha, ha.


Saddle doing a bit of gardening.


Can you see blue eyes and a sleepy smile? Too cute!


Nina on the left, Vaglie on the right. They are not closely related to each other but their colours and markings make them look very alike!
Both enjoying a bony meal.


Talking of bony meals. Yesterday we had a stroke of luck and I got hold of some small deer bones. Some with a decent amount of meat on them, others with not much on them but fun bits of fur the dogs/pups enjoy to pull off.
Wild meat is quite bloody so not for the faint hearted and certainly something to keep in mind when feeding. I have a HUGE old blanket that I use on such feeding occasions. With out me even having too train the pups they all know to stay on the blanket when eating these things. Cleaver babies.

And again cute!
The pups cant break up alot of the bones yet but they have an awful lot of fun trying, and this small bit wont pose to much of a problem.


Thanks Ellen and Els for the photos :-)))