Born 08/01/2019
7 yellow babies - four boys and three girls weighing from 366 grams to 434 grams
Father :Mallorn's Flintstone (Ponch)
August 15th 2013
Owner: Elena Kaplenkova - St. Petersburg - Russia
Dam : Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds (Bubbles)
February 23th 2012 - February 23th 2019
7 yellow babies - four boys and three girls weighing from 366 grams to 434 grams
Father :Mallorn's Flintstone (Ponch)
August 15th 2013
Owner: Elena Kaplenkova - St. Petersburg - Russia
Dam : Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds (Bubbles)
February 23th 2012 - February 23th 2019
MALLORN'S FLINTSTONE (PONCH)
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At the French K.C. Championship show on June 3rd I met a dog I'd never heard of and never seen before. I looked around at all the males in the Open and Intermediate classes and was very disappointed. Then I saw this unknown dog walk into the Working class ring and said to myself "If I were judging today - this dog would be my best dog for sure" and when I saw his handler walk out of the ring (with 1st place) I asked her in French "Could I have a copy of your dog's pedigree, please ?" to which she replied "I do not speak french" and I said to myself Oh shit ! for once that I've found a male I really, really like . . . he's not from France. And the owner continued "I'm from Saint Petersburg, Russia". Worse and worse !
I went back to the crates, picked up my catalogue and discovered Mallorn's Flintstone. It only took me those 50 yards to decide that, what the hell - I never choose a dog because he's a champion or because I like the owner . . . I choose a dog because my Labrador guts tell me that this one's for me and that one was going to be for me . . . for Bubbles (Have One On Me of T.W. daughter of Ch. Carpenny Made A Million X Ch. Champagne Celebration of T.W.) He had what is so difficult to find nowadays - a masculine head with a gentle and tender expression. In fact "Ponch" turned out to be a multiple champion.
Bubbles was 2 months overdue with her season and "Ponch" had long since returned to Saint Petersburg. But flights exist and thus Ponch came to stay for ten days in November. I had paid an itinerant Echograph specialist to come and she announced seven for Bubbles.
Sadly Bubbles in fact had eleven and although one clearly died several days before the whelping, 2 died during the whelping (I was not anticipating more than the 8 I had, and sadly one died at 4 days).
Anyone interested in one of the males can contact me by Messenger. The bitches are all bespoken.
I went back to the crates, picked up my catalogue and discovered Mallorn's Flintstone. It only took me those 50 yards to decide that, what the hell - I never choose a dog because he's a champion or because I like the owner . . . I choose a dog because my Labrador guts tell me that this one's for me and that one was going to be for me . . . for Bubbles (Have One On Me of T.W. daughter of Ch. Carpenny Made A Million X Ch. Champagne Celebration of T.W.) He had what is so difficult to find nowadays - a masculine head with a gentle and tender expression. In fact "Ponch" turned out to be a multiple champion.
Bubbles was 2 months overdue with her season and "Ponch" had long since returned to Saint Petersburg. But flights exist and thus Ponch came to stay for ten days in November. I had paid an itinerant Echograph specialist to come and she announced seven for Bubbles.
Sadly Bubbles in fact had eleven and although one clearly died several days before the whelping, 2 died during the whelping (I was not anticipating more than the 8 I had, and sadly one died at 4 days).
Anyone interested in one of the males can contact me by Messenger. The bitches are all bespoken.
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8 Weeks/Semaines +++
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PRIME TIME OF T.W.
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PETER'S BURGER OF T.W. (Pepé) 15 weeks tomorrow - left for the 2,000 km haul to Sofia in Bulgaria early this afternoon. I'm going to miss this sweet boy, always sociable, happy and ready for a hug. He's going to make Polly happy and she's going to make him happy and with some training and a bit of luck he'll be a super show-dog and have loads of pretty girls to seduce when he gets a bit older. (He's already seduced two today !) Way to go dear boy, I miss you already.❤️ |
The first time for him in a hotel, outside his garden and without his brothers and sisters, but he is definitely fine.
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Je suis tombée amoureuse ! un vrai coup de foudre pour Peppé...j'amais eu un coup de foudre (coup de coeur oui ) dans ma vie, mieux vaut tard que jamais □
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He certainly needs to learn a few manners about grabbing other people's tails, poor long-suffering girl whose personal space is being severely encroached.
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4 months Today at CAC Parvomay - First Show for Peter's Burger of Tintagel Winds - VP I, BOB Baby, BIS IV |
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PICK A STAR OF T.W. - Pale Blue (Will)
Left for a long five and a half hour drive to his new home. He joins OLYMPIC MEDAL OF T.W. now coming up to 8 months. Long and happy life - fun - bitches to mate - shows to win - game to pick up - everything a Labrador loves doing.❤️ |
AT HOME - 10 Weeks
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POLAR BEAR WITH ME OF T.W. - Bordeaux (Flint)
Has now left for his new home,
just along the lake from me.
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PARDON MY FRENCH OF T.W. - Royal Blue (Pedro)
Is now at home in Switzerland.
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 Has just left for Paris.
She is the 6th T.W. for Jean-François and Katia,
and goes to join Muse, a Chatterbox daughter,
She is now leaving for a happy life, a black big sister,
a family which also includes Julie and Samuel,
a garden and also shooting in season.
PROMISE KEPT OF T.W. - Turquoise (Pearl) |
PROMISE KEPT OF T.W.-adapting to her new family and her big black friend-to-be, Muse. The baby is keener on the relationship-to-be than Muse for now. Normal when a small yellow animated toy Labrador
starts messing up your organised life with no warning ! Body language doesn't lie !
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Looks as though the cohabitation is working well !
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 10 weeks - Promise Kept (Pearl) and Muse - looks as though they've got a brand new bed fit for two !
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3 months
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7 Weeks/Semaines
If I needed proof of the wonderful milk supply that Bubbles provided for her puppies - the weight chart today supplies it, when you see that since the weaning a week ago the puppies have put on only half the weight of the previous weeks.
This photo today is dedicated to their wonderful Mummy 💔
6 Weeks/Semaines
And some pre-benching for my dissipated little group of babies !
They'll be 6 weeks tomorrow night.
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5 Weeks/Semaines
Here are the 4 boys - five weeks old tonight (early tomorrow for the Polar Bear).
First time outside and feeling a bit lost alone on the bench in the cold. But the light is better than indoors.
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AND THE GIRLS!
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31 Days/Jours
31 days' today - [one month]
Amazing to watch their inter-reaction together and observe their play, their attitude with the toys and how they communicate with me.It's all going so fast . . . I have trouble keeping up !
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The sweetness and the innocence of a baby Labrador
An expression to melt your heart
Soft and warm and squishy to hold in your arms
Watching my face with quiet puzzled confidence and I can feel the little otter tail wagging gently as she asks herself questions to which, as yet, she finds no answer
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4 Weeks/Semaines
FOUR WEEKS' OLD yesterday evening for the Bubbles X Ponch (Have One On Me of T.W. X Mallorn's Flintstone) babies.
Pale Blue was pushing the walls of the whelping box and others were obviously thinking about climbing out . . . so yesterday a new change for them when they hit the ground (no, not literally !) and discovered more space and a mother unable to escape them except when I let her out.
Roughly on 3 kilos each after a week of ups and downs. Everything back to normal now and they're all eating well
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3 Weeks/Semaines
Starting to show their personalities. Those who like and those who don't . . . being dumped in a little wooden box to be photographed.
"Don't" wins the referendum !
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Now well over 5 times their birth-weigh, and starting the egg custard.
Very messy the first few days - until they get the notion of how to lap/eat instead of sucking.
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2 Weeks/Semaines
TWO WEEKS already - 14 days - 336 hours - 20,160 minutes . . .
A tiny gleam in the inner corner of every little eye and four wobbly little legs carrying each one of them around.
Time to remove the pig-rails (aka roll-over bars). I spend more time running to extricate them than doing anything else.
126 nails to cut tomorrow . . . .
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Colour-wise there are 6 Bubbles and 1 Ponch. Very visible !
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10 Days / Jours
So there are seven, 4 dogs and 3 bitches. All doing well. They doubled their birth-weight at 6 days and by 9 days, yesterday, were over a kilo. Active but not noisy, enterprising and voracious - they are all doing very well.
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7 Days / Jours
nteresting to see that the only one who hasn't doubled was the biggest at birth and the 2 who've put on the most weight were the 2 smallest at birth and the very last born. I haven't used the punishment box but I spent hours this week branching the tinies on the best teats and holding them there.
It has certainly paid off - I'm proud of them !
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Irritated by my inevitable "Golden Labradors" under the infra-red lamp - I unplugged it for 3 minutes this afternoon to get a better image and a fairer idea of the colour of the puppies.
Six would appear to have inherited Bubbles' warmer tint and one Ponch's lighter more uniform shade.
Pigmentation coming in a little more every day. I hope they all inherit their mother's, grand-mother's and great-grand-mother's wonderful inalterable jet-black nose.
Six would appear to have inherited Bubbles' warmer tint and one Ponch's lighter more uniform shade.
Pigmentation coming in a little more every day. I hope they all inherit their mother's, grand-mother's and great-grand-mother's wonderful inalterable jet-black nose.
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5 Days / Jours
DAY 5 (almost) The seven babies are growing well - 2 put on 100 grammes yesterday.
Pigmentation showing its' nose, or should that be the other way round ?
Who could imagine babies of not yet 5 days being obese ?
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Overweight at not yet 5 days' old ? What does Bubbles' milk contain ?
Enriched full fat cream . . .- it's like this every time.
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3 Days / Jours
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1 Day / Jour
08/01/2019
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