JOY & NEVER!
Are happy to announce the birth of 1 black dog and 3 (2 yellow/ 1 black) bitches.
on December 25th 2020
For the record :
Never Give Up Of Tintagel Winds (Never)
(Multi Champion And Field Trial Champion Carromer's Charlie Chalk X Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds)
Born July 12th 2017
Clear For The 3 DNA Tests For PRAprcd/EIC/HNPK
My Decision, My Choice, My Joy Of Tintagel Winds (Joy)
(Foulby Still Talking X Got The Look Of Tintagel Winds)
Born 02/09/2016
Hips BVA 3/4 - Elbows BVA 0/0
Clear For The Six DNA Tests PRAprcd/HNPK/EIC/CNM/DM/Cystinuria
Carrying Yellow
Are happy to announce the birth of 1 black dog and 3 (2 yellow/ 1 black) bitches.
on December 25th 2020
For the record :
Never Give Up Of Tintagel Winds (Never)
(Multi Champion And Field Trial Champion Carromer's Charlie Chalk X Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds)
Born July 12th 2017
Clear For The 3 DNA Tests For PRAprcd/EIC/HNPK
My Decision, My Choice, My Joy Of Tintagel Winds (Joy)
(Foulby Still Talking X Got The Look Of Tintagel Winds)
Born 02/09/2016
Hips BVA 3/4 - Elbows BVA 0/0
Clear For The Six DNA Tests PRAprcd/HNPK/EIC/CNM/DM/Cystinuria
Carrying Yellow
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GOING HOME!
GOING HOME!
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Remain Zen Rita of T.W Unfortunately I forgot to make the goodbye photo |
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29/01/2021
5 weeks
Joy's babies are 5 weeks today and largely overweight. I now remove her part of the day which makes for a not-so-happy mother.
Can't give her her breakfast in the puppy pen or they all throw themselves into her bowl, and being the gentle girl she is, she moves back to give them room.
29/01/2021
5 weeks
Joy's babies are 5 weeks today and largely overweight. I now remove her part of the day which makes for a not-so-happy mother.
Can't give her her breakfast in the puppy pen or they all throw themselves into her bowl, and being the gentle girl she is, she moves back to give them room.
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24/01/2021
4 weeks
Happy Sunday morning - milk . . . egg custard . . . . full tummies and reflection.
24/01/2021
4 weeks
Happy Sunday morning - milk . . . egg custard . . . . full tummies and reflection.
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21/01/2021
26 days
The Joys are grounded today, let's hope running around the pen will help them lose a little weight. Joy's milk is pure cream by the gallon - as is Jewels - in fact one has to wait until the mother is withdrawn to get them longer than they are wide.
21/01/2021
26 days
The Joys are grounded today, let's hope running around the pen will help them lose a little weight. Joy's milk is pure cream by the gallon - as is Jewels - in fact one has to wait until the mother is withdrawn to get them longer than they are wide.
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21/01/2021
26 days
Joy's black boy. Photos of the others coming up but difficult when the lighting is bad, and the flash ruins them and it's too cold to take them outdoors.
21/01/2021
26 days
Joy's black boy. Photos of the others coming up but difficult when the lighting is bad, and the flash ruins them and it's too cold to take them outdoors.
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14/01/2021
Joys at 20 days. Somewhat overweight - definitely not starting egg-custard yet.
14/01/2021
Joys at 20 days. Somewhat overweight - definitely not starting egg-custard yet.
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06/01/2021
12 days
06/01/2021
12 days
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04/01/2021
10 days
10 days
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02/01/2021
8 days
Joy's four babies are doing too well. O.K., O.K., I'm never 100% satisfied but between puppies not putting on enough weight and those putting on too much . . .the happy medium is missing.
02/01/2021
8 days
Joy's four babies are doing too well. O.K., O.K., I'm never 100% satisfied but between puppies not putting on enough weight and those putting on too much . . .the happy medium is missing.
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29/12/2020
4 days
Joy's whelping became something of a tragedy. She lost two of the 8 whelps, who were born dead. This can happen. (posterior presentation + excessive size) But what I've never had before is losing two more, one at 24 hours and the other at 3 days. Their temperatures dropped to 33° and despite keeping them against my skin under the cachemire sweater for hours, which brought the temperatures back up between 36,6° and 37,3°, despite intubing - neither survived. The four others are doing well.
And a million thanks to Alain Fontbonne for his constant care, telephone calls, advice, concern and implication. Who better to encourage and console . . . .
29/12/2020
4 days
Joy's whelping became something of a tragedy. She lost two of the 8 whelps, who were born dead. This can happen. (posterior presentation + excessive size) But what I've never had before is losing two more, one at 24 hours and the other at 3 days. Their temperatures dropped to 33° and despite keeping them against my skin under the cachemire sweater for hours, which brought the temperatures back up between 36,6° and 37,3°, despite intubing - neither survived. The four others are doing well.
And a million thanks to Alain Fontbonne for his constant care, telephone calls, advice, concern and implication. Who better to encourage and console . . . .
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29/12/2020
4 days
Since on day 2 Joy's babies have put on an extraordinary 93 grams each (average) . . . Joy has adopted "Remedy For Blues" (yes, that's his official name) for a shared motherhood.
29/12/2020
4 days
Since on day 2 Joy's babies have put on an extraordinary 93 grams each (average) . . . Joy has adopted "Remedy For Blues" (yes, that's his official name) for a shared motherhood.
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27/12/2020
2 days
Joy's now stabilised with her five, growing well. Sad, so sad to have lost 3 but one has to get over it and move forward. Big surprise when doing the first weighing last evening to find another error (probabaly due to my failing eyesight). The first-born (black) whom I grabbed out of her mouth at 8 a.m. on Christmas morning in the semi-dark (just the infra-red lamps) is A BOY and not a girl. This is, indeed, an embarrassing mistake. So now (all rechecked) 2 black boys, 1 black girl and 2 yellow girls.
27/12/2020
2 days
Joy's now stabilised with her five, growing well. Sad, so sad to have lost 3 but one has to get over it and move forward. Big surprise when doing the first weighing last evening to find another error (probabaly due to my failing eyesight). The first-born (black) whom I grabbed out of her mouth at 8 a.m. on Christmas morning in the semi-dark (just the infra-red lamps) is A BOY and not a girl. This is, indeed, an embarrassing mistake. So now (all rechecked) 2 black boys, 1 black girl and 2 yellow girls.
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26/12/2020
Joy's little Bordeaux collar has just abandoned this world after 15 hours with no desire to fight for life. R.I.P. my baby. I am in tears
26/12/2020
Joy's little Bordeaux collar has just abandoned this world after 15 hours with no desire to fight for life. R.I.P. my baby. I am in tears
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25/12/2020
A night with no sleep. And taking Joy's temperature. And falling off the chair on which I fell asleep.
No sooner had I got Isa, Tiffany and Yala fed and half-way out in the semi-dark than my leg-nurse arrived (complete with antlers) and when she wanted to see Jewel's babies . . . we found a very wet, very lively black baby in Joy's mouth. Murphy's Law that after a night without sleep the puppies start arriving just when you have all the other dogs to do. It's been a stressful "daymare" to say the least. I think it's now over.
Sadly N°6, a yellow bitch the biggest, the heaviest and with a posterior arrival, didn't make it, and five minutes later, N°7, the last one scrambled out to breathe a sigh of relief.
So Joy has six babies - 3 yellows and 3 blacks (thanks Mendel) 4 bitches and 2 dogs.
THANK YOU a million times to Alain Fontbonne for the extraordinary day round-trip he made from Paris and back again to inseminate Joy.
25/12/2020
A night with no sleep. And taking Joy's temperature. And falling off the chair on which I fell asleep.
No sooner had I got Isa, Tiffany and Yala fed and half-way out in the semi-dark than my leg-nurse arrived (complete with antlers) and when she wanted to see Jewel's babies . . . we found a very wet, very lively black baby in Joy's mouth. Murphy's Law that after a night without sleep the puppies start arriving just when you have all the other dogs to do. It's been a stressful "daymare" to say the least. I think it's now over.
Sadly N°6, a yellow bitch the biggest, the heaviest and with a posterior arrival, didn't make it, and five minutes later, N°7, the last one scrambled out to breathe a sigh of relief.
So Joy has six babies - 3 yellows and 3 blacks (thanks Mendel) 4 bitches and 2 dogs.
THANK YOU a million times to Alain Fontbonne for the extraordinary day round-trip he made from Paris and back again to inseminate Joy.
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24/12/2020
Excuse the P.S. - I couldn't resist it !
24/12/2020
Excuse the P.S. - I couldn't resist it !
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04/12/2020
I didn't need to confirm that Joy is in gestation but decided to give her inseminator a happy little surprise with PROOF ! She has (at least) five judging by the echograph
04/12/2020
I didn't need to confirm that Joy is in gestation but decided to give her inseminator a happy little surprise with PROOF ! She has (at least) five judging by the echograph
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26/10/2020
The start - Le début
Today must be classified as one of the most rapid and mind-blowing days that the Guiness Book of Records could register. Pouring rain didn't help the sorting out of FIVE in season bitches, two raunchy males (total 11 bigs and 7 tinies) and getting them fed, out, pee'd, poo'd, settled, puppies fed and changed, me coffee'd, medicated and changed and off to the station by 11 a.m.
This was to be Joy's day. Joy who "lost" her one and only puppy two years ago and who didn't come in season and then did but Never couldn't mate her and neither of the "specialist" Vets could collect Never's semen. NEVER GIVE UP ! I love this bitch but the only person in the whole wide world capable of getting her in whelp was obviously Alain Fontbonne in Paris.
Off to the station to pick up Alain who arrived at 11.55. Home at 12,30 - checked Joy, took smears and blood samples. Collected Never, super excited and collected his sperm, 7 ml and excellent quality. Impregnated Joy and then she was 20 minutes on Alain's lap.
Alain (Professor at the Veterinary school in Paris) has an incredibly busy week and I am incredibly lucky that he is so incredibly kind as to make this incredible journey so that I can (may) get an incredible litter of puppies on Christmas Day. This would be an incredible Christmas gift.
THANK YOU my dear friend
The start - Le début
Today must be classified as one of the most rapid and mind-blowing days that the Guiness Book of Records could register. Pouring rain didn't help the sorting out of FIVE in season bitches, two raunchy males (total 11 bigs and 7 tinies) and getting them fed, out, pee'd, poo'd, settled, puppies fed and changed, me coffee'd, medicated and changed and off to the station by 11 a.m.
This was to be Joy's day. Joy who "lost" her one and only puppy two years ago and who didn't come in season and then did but Never couldn't mate her and neither of the "specialist" Vets could collect Never's semen. NEVER GIVE UP ! I love this bitch but the only person in the whole wide world capable of getting her in whelp was obviously Alain Fontbonne in Paris.
Off to the station to pick up Alain who arrived at 11.55. Home at 12,30 - checked Joy, took smears and blood samples. Collected Never, super excited and collected his sperm, 7 ml and excellent quality. Impregnated Joy and then she was 20 minutes on Alain's lap.
Alain (Professor at the Veterinary school in Paris) has an incredibly busy week and I am incredibly lucky that he is so incredibly kind as to make this incredible journey so that I can (may) get an incredible litter of puppies on Christmas Day. This would be an incredible Christmas gift.
THANK YOU my dear friend
8 weeks/semaines.
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