Puppies in a New Place

The puppies made it through some extremely cold nights last week.  We had them in a portable cage in our old dairy barn with heat lamps and heaters and they did great!  But they had no room for much movement.

So now that the temperatures are not below zero degrees, we moved them to a bigger part of our other barn.  

They still have their pool/bed and their heat lamp, but now they have room to move around and play a little.

I took this one of camo collar back when he was still available.

My nephew said, "these are the biggest, nicest puppies you've ever had!"

But he says that every time I think.

He's right though.  They are big! 

And nice!

And soo sweet!

And so cute!!

Seriously!
I tell them everyday
"You're the cutest puppies in the world."

It helps their confidence.

Look how happy and confident they are!

I think he's right, they might just be the nicest.

Growing Every Day

This is a blog entry on the growth of these puppies over a matter of about eight days.

And to prove that my son can on occasion take a good picture.

At some point there's a decent picture in here. . .

There!  Well, sort of.

There!!!  See?  He's cute!

But I know, this is about the puppies,

who one day looked like this- cute and getting bigger.  But still so small and helpless.

They were tiny and sleepy.

Then there was Christmas.

We celebrated.  Some of us celebrated sporting our Easter bunny ears.

We spent time with our families.

We went on our traditional Christmas Eve gigging trip.

It was a successful 26 degree evening!

One of us didn't make it as long as the others.

My nephew thought this was his Christmas present.

Some families came out to pick out their new puppy.

There were some pretty happy kids here on Christmas Day!

And after that, the puppies evolved into bigger puppies!

Puppies with personalities,

and even cuter faces than before!

And puppies that could now ESCAPE!

And now they're almost too big to hold in an infant position!
Check out our Available Puppy link.

Christmas Hustle

The puppies are getting so big and cute!

They'll be 3 weeks old tomorrow already!
As you can see, they're getting wrapped up in the holiday hustle and bustle too.

They've got a lot on their minds.
In the midst of a crazy week of running around I've looked over at them several times and thought how nice it would be to be a puppy.

And speaking of Christmas, Finley River Retrievers will be working on Christmas Day.

That's right, we have a couple families hauling their children out the to the "farm" (I quoted it because it's hardly a farm and if my cattle-running, chicken raising, neighbors see this they'd laugh if I called our property with a few horses and a million dogs a farm) to surprise them with picking out a puppy.
We are excited to do it!  I hope to get good pictures of their faces and anticipate this being a great Christmas for a few families!
We can't wait!

Winter Puppies!

The temps have dropped here.

The snow and sleet came down for a couple days.

But we have a warm, cozy house with 9 new
puppies!

They are warm, and sleepy, and loud!

And Annie is exhausted.

But she's good too!
She's getting lots of food and love, and not being made to go out very often.
Except sometimes I think she'd rather be out in the cold than in with them all up on her.

But who would keep this little baby warm if Annie stayed out?

I'll tell ya who....Candy!

She weasled her way in here last night while Annie was outside.
Notice the one trying to nurse.
Sorry puppy, the well is dry.

But it's good to know there's someone else willing to take care of them.

They are very sweet, and growing every day!

My dirty boys are happy to keep them comfortable too!

Meanwhile, the boys went sledding.

I jumped on for little while too.

Penny helped pull up the rear.

Huck and Candy pouted because they were still locked in the yard.

So we let them out!
(Except that's not Candy, it's Dolly)