No Good Pictures Today

Something tragic happened.

Yesterday, I posted on our facebook page that I had taken a million pictures and posted a few until I could get the rest on the blog, blah, blah, blah...

I took them with my phone.  Guess what?!  I lost them.

So, you have to deal with the ones I could find and/or took today...

 

Sure wish I could find the real cute ones.

To make up for the deprivation and the false information I gave yesterday about all these pictures, I feel I should make it up to you some how.  I don't usually do this, but I am going to let you in on a puppy secret...
 If you let the
puppies nurse on their mama (or the
closest willing mama), and then get
a few feet away and call for said mama, she
inevitably will come for the attention leaving
the puppies behind who will then run after her.
If you can get the camera ready just right and
in perfect timing, you get group pictures of them
running at you (even though they aren't really
running at me).  It has taken me several litters of
puppies to figure out this little trick.
I hope that brings some satisfaction.
 

If not, I promise to keep
searching for those really sweet,
super cute pictures instead of what's
here.

Here's an example of those sleepy
puppies again...sleeping while sitting in
the grass.

I could sit and watch Candy with her puppies all day.  She is just so tolerant.

She loves to be near them.
Annie...not so much.  She
needs her "me" time.  She
was ready for that about a week or
so ago.

Look at those little white toes!
I love everything about this one!

And since it's Friday and the boys are glad it's the weekend, and I didn't have any pictures of Annie like I did Candy, and since I'd already botched up this post with the loss of my good pictures, we started taking selfies.

Happy Friday everyone!!
The puppies are going fast!

This Week

I thought I'd start this one off talking about me.  I promise I'll keep it short and get to the puppies.  So this is the situation I'm in right now.  I'm not supposed to be on my foot at all.  This is a last chance effort to heal without having to do surgery.  So, sorry to bring up my problems, I don't like to do that.  I'm just asking ya to be patient with me on rushing out and getting updated pictures of the puppies.

So this was our house a little over a week ago (don't judge me).

Now this is our barn.  More room to run and still cozy!

This was Candy a few days ago coming into Annie's pen to get my attention while Annie's puppies nursed on her!

And these were Candy's puppies feeling very much betrayed!



And here are some super cute team pictures!
These are Annie's boys.

Team Annie's Girls!

Team Candy's Girls

And Team Candy's Boys!
As you can see, they are very similar and every one of them is a winner! I hope you enjoy them all as these photos are not easy to take!! Not to mention, I did way more standing than I shood have that day!!  I have some decent help around here though so I shouldn't complain. Shout out to my mom, my husband, my boys, and my mother in law! 
More pictures are available on the Available Puppies link. 

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Just a few Pictures

The puppies are getting bigger!  Noticeably bigger...by the day!  So much so, that when I take pictures I can't get them up before they are soon outdated as the puppies have changed so much.  But I thought, what the heck, I'm posting them anyway.

So basically, the boys are LOVING having these puppies around.  We are in winter mode where we just don't have a lot going on right now, so the timing, as far as attention goes, is perfect.

While the puppies have changed since I took this about 4 days ago, they do still love to curl up and sleep...a lot.  In fact, I'm going to start using the phrase "sleeping like a puppy" instead of a baby.  I know how my babies slept and that phrase never quite made sense to me.

I guarantee my boys go to school smelling like a dog every day.

This is Lucy, our 7 month old pup.  She's been dying to get around these puppies since they were born.  She proved there was nothing to worry about when she did get close. As you can see, she was very friendly.

The last couple of days have been great for everyone to be outside!

The puppies are still a little small to care about being on the ground, and I always get too paranoid...but that doesn't mean it still wasn't great to sit outside with them.

And then my boys were actually tolerant of the pictures...and each other, so I got a little carried away with the photos.

But I have no regrets.

Whoops, this is a little out of order!
But I'm not removing it.

So that's all I've got for now.  Soon I'll be putting collars on them (because they-especially Candy's litter- look identical), but for now, Sam tells me to let them be little...

I would also like to invite you to visit our NEW website-Finley River Retrievers.com!!
It is still a work in progress for sure, but I hope you enjoy!
And as always, thank you to our loyal followers!  We love ya!

Happy New Year!

We have yet another litter here to begin the year!

I wasn't totally sure when this one was coming.  Turns out it was just 3 days after Candy!

Like Candy, Annie wouldn't let me leave her alone.  She whined and panted and stirred around for hours.  I was about to call her bluff.

And then, just like that (actually it wasn't just like that, it took about 3 hours), her first puppy arrived.  But then there were no more for an hour and a half.  So I panicked and called the vet.

That usually does the trick...just calling and telling them something is bad wrong to where they are ready if we want to bring her in, puts the dogs in active labor. Not 5 minutes later two more puppies came!

Basically, the whole thing took all day.  But we are thankful as once again, all were born alive and healthy!

This litter has some light ones in the bunch.

So our New Year's Eve was filled with lots of puppies to snuggle (not Annie's though, she didn't want to be bothered).

But Candy is totally fine with any attention she or her puppies get now.

And here's the rascal responsible for all of this...doing what he does best.  It has been a stressful week for him.