I’d like to speak with each of you about puppy selection. Please give me a call, 509-722-3127.
If I don’t answer, please email me with your phone number. I’d like to be sure I have your correct phone number AND email. Thanks!
Puppy selection is active for the Molly, Daisychon, and Lilly litters! Can’t wait to hear from each of you!
Adult Cavachon. She was red as a puppy!
Today has been a flow blown puppy day! It began last night when I gathered all the supplies for three puppies to go to their forever homes…food samples, shot records, heart toys, blankies, collars/leads…everything that goes home with each puppy was packed in the little paw print bag and ready for an early morning.
We woke up and hit the floor running. Daryl had to take 3 puppies to Spokane, to meet two buyers, and put one puppy on a red eye flight tonight to Boston. I had to get 3 litters ready for visitors, and do the normal morning doggie chores. We also had to get Daryl’s truck, a chore we were not expecting to need to do, but life happens, and that delegated task fell back into our laps. That sucked up over an hour of my morning, so I was not able to bathe Lilly’s litter before visitors came eagerly into our home.
I had the great pleasure of meeting Krista, Ashley, her friend, Nanci, and Tabitha! Smiles were everywhere as everyone held puppies, exchanged puppies, looked at puppies, hugged puppies, and came to their final decisions about which puppy they wanted for their forever friend! The process is so much fun, especially when it’s done in person!
I had a great visit with everyone, and once the decisions were made, everyone was on their way, and the house was quiet again. I snapped a few pictures of the sleeping heaps of puppies, and then took the younger litters back to their mamas.
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Princess Litter
Rosie Litter
Tomorrow, Lilly’s litter is 6 weeks old, so it is time for their 6 week spa day. I’ve just finished giving them their bath, and they are now under the blowdrier.
Lilly’s girls before the bath!
Next it’s picture time, and finally I’ll update the website page about Lilly’s litter. Somewhere in the middle of that, I’ve snacked on some peanut butter crackers, and had a few drinks of water. I’m ready to take a nap, but I have to get the pictures done while there is still some natural light outside, shining into the house!
It’s been a very productive day!
Random pictures of available and reserved puppies! Enjoy.
Solid Sable Female from Daisychon’s litter. She is reserved for Shannon or Jodi (I can’t tell which one she is from the photo!).
Available Female Shichon from Sadie’s litter. She will probably be from 12-14 lbs as an adult.
Tri female from Molly’s litter. I will know Wednesday, May 23rd, if she is available or not.
Sable/White female from Molly’s litter. She is reserved for Marilyn!
Dixon – Available Male Shichon from Chelsea’s litter. He is going to be small, from 10-13 lbs.
Will – Male Shichon from Chelsea’s litter. He went home today!
Marshall – Available Male Shichon from Chelsea’s litter. He is going to be small, from 8-12 lbs.
Chelsea’s puppies are almost 7 weeks old. I took new pictures of them today.
We have just 1 deposit for this litter, so 5 of these darling, and very small, puppies are still available for adoption.
Marshall
Dixon
Sydney
Francie
Will
Arvin
My mom called me the other day to tell me about a video she had just watched. She was excited because it talked about controlling weeds and she knew that was a main issue in our garden because it is so GINORMOUS!
I was immediately interested and headed to the website to take a look.
www.backtoedenfilm.com
My Internet has not cooperated enough to allow me to watch the entire film yet, (so I ordered the DVD) but I have seen parts while in town and at home, enough to get extremely excited about the concept. This man uses Wood Chips as mulch in his garden.
The concept is that the ground is covered, the wood chips are not mixed in, and this keeps the moisture in the soil, and suffocates the weeds. There are a lot of beautiful spiritual applications as well, and he has studied nature and how the natural world grows trees in the forests, etc., without formal irrigation, etc., and he has implemented these concepts into his garden and has amazing results.
I know it’s not a new concept to lay down a mulch in a garden, but wood chips are more permanent, don’t blow away with the wind, and take years to beak down. When they do start to begin to break down, the soil becomes beautiful, light, and from the looks of this man’s garden, and his pH test results, the soil will grow anything with success and vigor.
I was already devising ways to stop the weeds before they grew this year, and had bought a whole lot of straw bales to lay straw down all over the garden area. But now, I’m going to lay down some chips.
I didn’t waste any time going to the local lumber yard to secure a small load of wood chips in my trailer.
They actually didn’t want to sell me any of this pile because it is what they use to burn and create energy, and their supply is low right now. But since my trailer was so small, they charged me $10 and filled it up.
These are not the pretty kind used in playgrounds and landscaping. That stuff costs $100/ton. But they are what I wanted…ground up branches, leaves, basic organic material from all different types of sources.
The dumpster (what is that thing he’s driving?) driver piled it as high as he could. By the time I got home, it was a couple of inches below the edge of the trailer from all the jiggling as we traveled over the road.
I can’t wait to get started. We’re initially going to lay down newspaper on a dormant bed, 4×46 ft long, that we don’t plan to plant this year, and mulch it with these chips. I can’t wait to see what the ground is like next summer after all the snow, rain, and worms do their magic.
I also plan to put some in my pathways and around some of the vegetables that come up in the garden beds. It should be a fun experiment. I am mostly eager to see the weeds be suffocated. Let’s hope it works, at least, for that!!
Bobby was looking a little scraggly.
All his hairs had little wispy ends on them.
So I took him to the groomer to get a little “trim”. They cut him a little shorter than what I was thinking, but hair grows back, and on Cavachons, it grows back fast! I still think he’s as cute as ever!
I hate to admit that I have 8 month old “puppies” that still need a forever home. I have not said a word about them since they were 4 months old because “Buddy” had a Cherry Eye, and needed surgery to fix it, and I just didn’t have time to deal with it, so I just let them be dogs, and they spent the winter in our straw play yard.
Don’t worry, they stayed plenty warm and played like crazy every single day!
I finally took Buddy to the vet this week and had him neutered and had his eye fixed. He looks quite the sight with his “Cone of Shame”. He kept rubbing his eye so we had to protect him from himself and put on the cone.
He WILL be darling and cute like his brother as soon as his hair grows out around his eye. His tail still works and he has no idea he has any “special needs”, and plays so hard, we have to separate him so his stitches can all safely heal.
Brother just went to the groomer today and will visit the vet next week to get his little jewels chopped off as well.
Despite the fact that they haven’t had a lot of different experiences in life, both pups are very happy, tail wagging, and easy going. They need some basic training and individual attention, and they need to be potty trained, but I don’t think it will take much to turn them into great little dogs.
Because they are so old, we are placing them in their new homes for just $300 each which covers their vet expenses and vaccinations, including their Rabies shot.
We are actively crate training them and they are ready for their new homes now. Buddy would need to stay local as he has some follow up care scheduled with our vet.
If you or someone you know might be interested in a wonderful Shichon (ShihTzu/Bichon Frise mix) teenager, fully vaccinated, and already altered, please let me know. For some, getting an older puppy makes life a lot easier because they can “hold it” a lot longer than a brand new 8 week old puppy!
We had a friend over for supper tonight and after we ate, she shared a blog post with me about a simple filing system. My ears perked right up because my office is in terrible order and I don’t think I’ve filed a paper properly for over a year or more! Moving day is coming and I need to feel somewhat organized, so I attacked my desk and the top drawer of my filing cabinet and shredded like a mad woman all the papers that were stealing my spaces. What was left was dust, dust, dust on my desktop. I plan to attack the dust tomorrow. At least I can see surface area now! It’s not perfect, but it’s a great start!
Our family and SPK will be moving in August. After much thought and careful consideration, we have decided to be a Cavachon only breeder. This means we are looking to re-home all of our Shihtzu breeder dogs.
We have already found a home for 4 Shihtzus and our two male Maltese. We still have Pearlie Girl, Laeci, R.B., and Sebastian to find homes for. Sebastian could be bred, but the other 3 should go to pet homes.
If you or anyone you know is looking for a little dog, please let me know.
This morning began early at 5 am. I have Brady and Hallie in the house because Hallie is receiving eye meds 3x daily and Brady is being Accelerated. They were crated together last night and woke me up early.
Hallie & Brady
Once I got Brady and Hallie pottied on the UGO, I made their space a little bigger so they could play.
Isn’t Brady so cute?
Then it was bath time for Bobby and an older Shichon puppy. They are both getting neutered this morning. I gave Bobby a bath while Daryl trimmed the hair off the Shichon.
Bobby after the blow dry. Not a happy camper.
Prisoner to the dryer:(
Then I gave the Shichon a bath. He is 8 months old and has a cherry eye that will also be fixed today. Sorry the picture is blurry. He did NOT like the bath AT ALL and was trying to escape the whole time.
A cherry eye is when a flap of skin, the inner eyelid, moves out of position. They will tuck this back under with a couple of stitches and he’ll be good as new!
The puppies always look like wet rats when they get a bath.
We need a name for this Shichon boy. He’s from Sadie & Sebastian’s previous litter.
My morning has just begun. The blow drier is on the Shichon right now and he is tolerating it quite well. We still have to drive to the vet then come home to do eye meds, feed, clean, and take new puppy pictures.
We are also rehoming 7 adults this week that all need to be wormed! Things are always moving’ at SPK!!
