MEG & CHARLIE!
Are happy to announce the birth of 6 puppies
All Black
1 dog - 5 bitches
on November 21th 2021
For the record :
Multi Champion and Field Trial Champion Carromer's Charlie Chalk (Charlie)
November 6th 1991- September 20th 2004
MEGA HUGGING SUNDAY OF TINTAGEL WINDS (Meg)
(Foulby Still Talking X Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds)Born September 19th 2016
Hips BVA 2/5 - Elbows BVA 0/0
Clear For The Six DNA Tests PRAprcd/HNPK/EIC/CNM/DM/Cystinuria
DNA tested clear for the coat.
Are happy to announce the birth of 6 puppies
All Black
1 dog - 5 bitches
on November 21th 2021
For the record :
Multi Champion and Field Trial Champion Carromer's Charlie Chalk (Charlie)
November 6th 1991- September 20th 2004
MEGA HUGGING SUNDAY OF TINTAGEL WINDS (Meg)
(Foulby Still Talking X Have One Of Me Of Tintagel Winds)Born September 19th 2016
Hips BVA 2/5 - Elbows BVA 0/0
Clear For The Six DNA Tests PRAprcd/HNPK/EIC/CNM/DM/Cystinuria
DNA tested clear for the coat.
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Show me of T.W. |
Show Me waiting for her breakfast
AT HOME!
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6 Months :Show Me (and Out-of the Blue), A pair of “well behaved” Labradors….after they’ve finished fooling around.
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13/11/2022 _ 1 Year
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Someone Special of T.W. |
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Spot On of T.W. 21/02/2022 SPOT ON left on Saturday for her loving home. Joy to them all |
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Surprise Surprise of T.W. 28/02/2022 At 8.30 this morning Surprise Surprise left for Luxembourg to join Phoebe (Phew What A Few of T.W.) and have a wonderful life. Long and happy lives to humans and T.W.'s |
Back in Luxembourg and thanks a lot for your warm welcome.
As you already see, Phoebe and Surprise Surprise are already getting along very well □ nice team!
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4 Months with her new sister
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08/12/2022
Phoebe and Lola . . . .
Lovely feed-back from Luxembourg - the two girls with the Kremer family - very obviously happy together and enjoying life. I so love it when there are two (or more) together because dogs are really meant to live with other dogs and however much one adores one's single dog - he or she is always lonely without a partner in crime. Of course it doesn't have to be the same breed but for me . . . I love seeing two T.W.s together ! ❤️
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20/03/2022
4 Months
The Charlie X Meg babies are 4 months old today.
Such a precious pedigree - the last of the Charlie semen.
But I'm moving in two weeks' time and I can only take one with me.
And they really should go to top class breeders (who only breed Labradors, sine qua non) to carry on the fabulous and unique Labrador story into new generations . . . .
20/03/2022
4 Months
The Charlie X Meg babies are 4 months old today.
Such a precious pedigree - the last of the Charlie semen.
But I'm moving in two weeks' time and I can only take one with me.
And they really should go to top class breeders (who only breed Labradors, sine qua non) to carry on the fabulous and unique Labrador story into new generations . . . .
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24/02/2022
13 Weeks
Many thanks to KG-G for presenting him (and his sisters) for my camera to enjoy. Alone (me), they are just under my feet and no profile picture is possible unless I squash them into inertia.
It's a good thing they're microchipped and that I have a reader !
24/02/2022
13 Weeks
Many thanks to KG-G for presenting him (and his sisters) for my camera to enjoy. Alone (me), they are just under my feet and no profile picture is possible unless I squash them into inertia.
It's a good thing they're microchipped and that I have a reader !
The boy: Sugar Daddy
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21/02/2022
13 Weeks
"A carrot a day keeps the Vet away" and above all when they get an apple too !
Charlie's kids, Sugar Daddy, Surprise Surprise and Someone Special (+ So Be It) were revaccinated this morning, including Rabies.
21/02/2022
13 Weeks
"A carrot a day keeps the Vet away" and above all when they get an apple too !
Charlie's kids, Sugar Daddy, Surprise Surprise and Someone Special (+ So Be It) were revaccinated this morning, including Rabies.
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18/02/2022
13 Weeks
Charlie's son . . . . .SUGAR DADDY - 13 weeks tomorrow.
18/02/2022
13 Weeks
Charlie's son . . . . .SUGAR DADDY - 13 weeks tomorrow.
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07/02/2022
11Weeks
The Story . . . or how a tail of woe can become a tale to tell . . . .
How not to be happy when you organise the last litter of puppies from Charlie - 7 times French Champion till they changed the rules to keep champions from blocking others, Field Trial Champion on the top level, Champion of 7 countries in days when there were 350 Labradors at Interntional shows and over 500 at the Retriever Club annual show. 96 CACIB and Top Dog ALL breeds in France in 1994.
Alas an error where nearly 200 frozen straws from Charlie were kept for the future brought the painful news in 2005 that all the frozen semen had been destroyed. In 2017 I managed to recuperate two inseminations from where they were stocked in Oregon and for which I had never been paid. These precious straws, semen collected in 1997, were shipped to Germany as the rules for entry into France had changed. And Never and O.P.I. were two of the five puppies born from this semen in July 2017.
I chose Meg for the insemination because she's a wonderful mother and clear for all seven DNA tests done on her, she carries yellow and has A/A hips and 0/0 elbows and a lovely personality a will to please and a love of picking up. Also she's 6 generations down from Rocheby Fay of Tintagel Winds. And she's clear for the coat problem.
Inseminated on September 20th, after several check-ups and the addition of hormone capsules to maintain a good level of progesterone - her 6 puppies were born on November 20th. All black was a bit of a surprise. Not a single yellow.
Then Yala had her five by Never 8 days later and I sat for hours watching them all as I stripped paper for their future in their pens. The demand for Charlie's get was great from many countries. He has not been forgotten.
Then they were all "grounded" by 4 weeks' old and started eating and playing. And one day I just sat and stared in horror . . . I could not believe my eyes
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Charlie produced 350 Tintagel Winds puppies with natural matings from 1992 to 2004 when he died. I have not hundreds but thousands of photos - some well known as was/is this poster showing him and his puppies or often just his puppies. With straight, medium tails, pretty well wrapped and horizontal with their backs. NEVER, ever have I seen tails like these, neither from him nor from any other dog I have owned or used since 1977 when I created TINTAGEL WINDS with a strict blueprint. I sat there, my heart beating wildly and erratically and then seized my camera and photographed them with tears running down my face. It was midnight and I felt utterly destroyed. The start of a nightmare.
Obviously there had to have been a problem with identifying the straws, With collection of semen on several dates and in two different places, sent to the United States in 1997, recuperated and sent to Germany in 2017, recuperated and sent to France in 2021 . . . . Straws in Germany (but from which dates ?) had been tested for the DNA identity in 2018 to be sure Never and his litter-mates were truly Charlie's get. I had tested all six babies for their coat at 18 days' old with DDC in the U.S. and so I sent them the DNA identification done in Germany in 2018 . . . but the system is totally different in the U.S. and DDC was unable to check that the DNA identity of Charlie corresponded to the sire of the 6 puppies. Back to square one.
Here I pay an immense hommage to my much loved, respected and admired friend Pr. Alain Fontbonne who, having seen the photos - and as horrified as was I - got in contact with Antagene in France and explained the situation. Thereafter started an incredible ballet of DNA testing for all Charlies straws, those remaining, unused, and the ones used, redoing Never, O.P.I. and Tiffany, doing the puppies again, checking they all carry yellow (wouldn't prove Charlie's the sire but pure black puppies couldn't be his - just one more dot on the 'i').
Antagene were super-efficient and returned the results in shorter time than one might expect, certainly thanks to Alain for that too as he has a professional clout that of course I don't have.
In the meantime, I had cancelled the sales and the puppies grew and I started to become fairly neurotic - seeing things and believing I was seeing things that just weren't there. Until the plain fact arrived with all the evidence accumulated that these six puppies are indeed Charlie's. And the tails started to become more normal.
But the question remains . . . HOW and WHY ? We are still exploring this, Meg was under Progesterone capsules for most of her pregnancy since her level had dropped to under 10ng. other than this, it was uneventful. But the straws were 27 years old and had been manipulated and had travelled a great deal . . . . maybe we'll always be left with conjecture.
Yellow collar, SHOW ME, left for the south west of France on Sunday to join "Freddie" and "Pops" with a definite show career planned for her. I am keeping SO BE IT (green collar) aptly named for my non-future, the end of my passionate breeder's life and the spectre of a future coffin . . . . and Sugar Daddy (royal blue), Spot On (Pink) and the two other girls, (orange and red collars) are now looking for an exciting future - 11 weeks old on saturday.
I'm prepared to discuss them with potential owners, preferably breeders after all the hope, work, patience and expense, they are more than "pets" or "Perhaps Everyone Trying Showing" which, afterall, will make them all PETS !
07/02/2022
11Weeks
The Story . . . or how a tail of woe can become a tale to tell . . . .
How not to be happy when you organise the last litter of puppies from Charlie - 7 times French Champion till they changed the rules to keep champions from blocking others, Field Trial Champion on the top level, Champion of 7 countries in days when there were 350 Labradors at Interntional shows and over 500 at the Retriever Club annual show. 96 CACIB and Top Dog ALL breeds in France in 1994.
Alas an error where nearly 200 frozen straws from Charlie were kept for the future brought the painful news in 2005 that all the frozen semen had been destroyed. In 2017 I managed to recuperate two inseminations from where they were stocked in Oregon and for which I had never been paid. These precious straws, semen collected in 1997, were shipped to Germany as the rules for entry into France had changed. And Never and O.P.I. were two of the five puppies born from this semen in July 2017.
I chose Meg for the insemination because she's a wonderful mother and clear for all seven DNA tests done on her, she carries yellow and has A/A hips and 0/0 elbows and a lovely personality a will to please and a love of picking up. Also she's 6 generations down from Rocheby Fay of Tintagel Winds. And she's clear for the coat problem.
Inseminated on September 20th, after several check-ups and the addition of hormone capsules to maintain a good level of progesterone - her 6 puppies were born on November 20th. All black was a bit of a surprise. Not a single yellow.
Then Yala had her five by Never 8 days later and I sat for hours watching them all as I stripped paper for their future in their pens. The demand for Charlie's get was great from many countries. He has not been forgotten.
Then they were all "grounded" by 4 weeks' old and started eating and playing. And one day I just sat and stared in horror . . . I could not believe my eyes
. . . . .
Charlie produced 350 Tintagel Winds puppies with natural matings from 1992 to 2004 when he died. I have not hundreds but thousands of photos - some well known as was/is this poster showing him and his puppies or often just his puppies. With straight, medium tails, pretty well wrapped and horizontal with their backs. NEVER, ever have I seen tails like these, neither from him nor from any other dog I have owned or used since 1977 when I created TINTAGEL WINDS with a strict blueprint. I sat there, my heart beating wildly and erratically and then seized my camera and photographed them with tears running down my face. It was midnight and I felt utterly destroyed. The start of a nightmare.
Obviously there had to have been a problem with identifying the straws, With collection of semen on several dates and in two different places, sent to the United States in 1997, recuperated and sent to Germany in 2017, recuperated and sent to France in 2021 . . . . Straws in Germany (but from which dates ?) had been tested for the DNA identity in 2018 to be sure Never and his litter-mates were truly Charlie's get. I had tested all six babies for their coat at 18 days' old with DDC in the U.S. and so I sent them the DNA identification done in Germany in 2018 . . . but the system is totally different in the U.S. and DDC was unable to check that the DNA identity of Charlie corresponded to the sire of the 6 puppies. Back to square one.
Here I pay an immense hommage to my much loved, respected and admired friend Pr. Alain Fontbonne who, having seen the photos - and as horrified as was I - got in contact with Antagene in France and explained the situation. Thereafter started an incredible ballet of DNA testing for all Charlies straws, those remaining, unused, and the ones used, redoing Never, O.P.I. and Tiffany, doing the puppies again, checking they all carry yellow (wouldn't prove Charlie's the sire but pure black puppies couldn't be his - just one more dot on the 'i').
Antagene were super-efficient and returned the results in shorter time than one might expect, certainly thanks to Alain for that too as he has a professional clout that of course I don't have.
In the meantime, I had cancelled the sales and the puppies grew and I started to become fairly neurotic - seeing things and believing I was seeing things that just weren't there. Until the plain fact arrived with all the evidence accumulated that these six puppies are indeed Charlie's. And the tails started to become more normal.
But the question remains . . . HOW and WHY ? We are still exploring this, Meg was under Progesterone capsules for most of her pregnancy since her level had dropped to under 10ng. other than this, it was uneventful. But the straws were 27 years old and had been manipulated and had travelled a great deal . . . . maybe we'll always be left with conjecture.
Yellow collar, SHOW ME, left for the south west of France on Sunday to join "Freddie" and "Pops" with a definite show career planned for her. I am keeping SO BE IT (green collar) aptly named for my non-future, the end of my passionate breeder's life and the spectre of a future coffin . . . . and Sugar Daddy (royal blue), Spot On (Pink) and the two other girls, (orange and red collars) are now looking for an exciting future - 11 weeks old on saturday.
I'm prepared to discuss them with potential owners, preferably breeders after all the hope, work, patience and expense, they are more than "pets" or "Perhaps Everyone Trying Showing" which, afterall, will make them all PETS !
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Photo : Just for the tail at 11 weeks: NORMAL
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31/01/2022
10 Weeks
31/01/2022
10 Weeks
THE KEEPER: SO BE IT OF T.W.
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20/12/2021
1 month
Growing!
20/12/2021
1 month
Growing!
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14/12/2021
24 days
The five stages of grounded puppies with egg custard. The Charlie X Meg babies, now 24 days.
14/12/2021
24 days
The five stages of grounded puppies with egg custard. The Charlie X Meg babies, now 24 days.
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11/12/2021
19 days
Megs will be grounded today - and start egg-custard tomorrow. The fox has learned his job of keeping them all in a cluster.
Swabs for the Charlie X Meg babies went off to DDC on thursday for the coat-check. One heck of a job taking cheek swabs from 18 day old babies. We will see what we will see . . . . . . . (I'm hoping Murphy is off on holiday for Christmas)
11/12/2021
19 days
Megs will be grounded today - and start egg-custard tomorrow. The fox has learned his job of keeping them all in a cluster.
Swabs for the Charlie X Meg babies went off to DDC on thursday for the coat-check. One heck of a job taking cheek swabs from 18 day old babies. We will see what we will see . . . . . . . (I'm hoping Murphy is off on holiday for Christmas)
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05/12/2021
2 weeks
Multi Ch. and F.T. Ch. Carromer Charlie Chalk X Mega Hugging Sunday of T.W. - the miracle litter now 2 weeks old and growing well.
05/12/2021
2 weeks
Multi Ch. and F.T. Ch. Carromer Charlie Chalk X Mega Hugging Sunday of T.W. - the miracle litter now 2 weeks old and growing well.
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29/11/2021
9 days
29/11/2021
9 days
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25/11/2021
5 days
5 girls (Fuschia, Orange, Red, Yellow, Green & I boy : Royal Blue (what else !) Born November 20th 2021. Certainly the last of Charlie's children. Charlie (16th November 1991 - 20th September 2004). Meg carries Yellow (ha ! YES !), born 18th September 2016, daughter of Foulby Still Talking & Have One On Me of T.W. Meg CLEAR for all 7 DNA tests. Charlie CLEAR for the 3 done in 1994. Both excellent hips and elbows.
25/11/2021
5 days
5 girls (Fuschia, Orange, Red, Yellow, Green & I boy : Royal Blue (what else !) Born November 20th 2021. Certainly the last of Charlie's children. Charlie (16th November 1991 - 20th September 2004). Meg carries Yellow (ha ! YES !), born 18th September 2016, daughter of Foulby Still Talking & Have One On Me of T.W. Meg CLEAR for all 7 DNA tests. Charlie CLEAR for the 3 done in 1994. Both excellent hips and elbows.
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23/11/2021
3 days
Meg - today is day 3. We have some Bolo pads which are NOT black
I adore Meg - her expression when I said "no, don't move, I want a photo" with her eyes swivelled round to watch me but like the good girl she is - not moving her head !
23/11/2021
3 days
Meg - today is day 3. We have some Bolo pads which are NOT black
I adore Meg - her expression when I said "no, don't move, I want a photo" with her eyes swivelled round to watch me but like the good girl she is - not moving her head !
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21/11/2021
Six healthy and lovely little babies but not exactly what I was hoping for in the way of colour and sex. Who would have thought there'd not be even ONE yellow and five girls to only one boy. Huh ! Murphy (of course).
This was an incredible team effort from the start and my thanks go to Alain and Etienne for their unfailing help, professionalism and enthusiasm, also to Konrad Blendiger in Frankfurt for dry-shipping the straws from Germany to Etienne. To Carromer's Charlie Chalk for his semen and to Meg, a priceless mother and caretaker of puppies.
A special thank you to Etienne who, after all day at the Geneva International Show, came with his fiancée to bring me medication to stimulate Meg's milk supply. He was just in time to scoop up the only boy - Royal Blue who arrived at exactly the same time !
And a big thank-you to all my other dogs, abandoned all day as I whelped with Meg, and maybe a little one to me too for going 48 hours with nothing to eat, just coffee to drink, no sleep at all, and forgetting all my medication.
I finished cleaning everything up, washing Meg, and putting the others to bed at 11.30 p.m. last night and too tired to "cook" I found one pizza left in the freezer. Seemed simple and quick. It is if you don't forget it and find it after an hour of wasted electricity, wasted pizza that even the dogs won't eat . . . so I ended up with Reblochon & Tuc and a G&T before gong back down to 'sleep' beside my treasures.
21/11/2021
Six healthy and lovely little babies but not exactly what I was hoping for in the way of colour and sex. Who would have thought there'd not be even ONE yellow and five girls to only one boy. Huh ! Murphy (of course).
This was an incredible team effort from the start and my thanks go to Alain and Etienne for their unfailing help, professionalism and enthusiasm, also to Konrad Blendiger in Frankfurt for dry-shipping the straws from Germany to Etienne. To Carromer's Charlie Chalk for his semen and to Meg, a priceless mother and caretaker of puppies.
A special thank you to Etienne who, after all day at the Geneva International Show, came with his fiancée to bring me medication to stimulate Meg's milk supply. He was just in time to scoop up the only boy - Royal Blue who arrived at exactly the same time !
And a big thank-you to all my other dogs, abandoned all day as I whelped with Meg, and maybe a little one to me too for going 48 hours with nothing to eat, just coffee to drink, no sleep at all, and forgetting all my medication.
I finished cleaning everything up, washing Meg, and putting the others to bed at 11.30 p.m. last night and too tired to "cook" I found one pizza left in the freezer. Seemed simple and quick. It is if you don't forget it and find it after an hour of wasted electricity, wasted pizza that even the dogs won't eat . . . so I ended up with Reblochon & Tuc and a G&T before gong back down to 'sleep' beside my treasures.
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11h30 p.m. Six babies and one sweet mother.
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12/11/2021
Little trip in the fog to Saint Julien this morning to do X-rays of Meg
Soooooo Meg has SIX Charlie babies due as of next Tuesday. Next Tuesday will be Charlie's 30th birthday. Colours and sexes unknown (wait 10 years and we'll be able to get those too).
12/11/2021
Little trip in the fog to Saint Julien this morning to do X-rays of Meg
Soooooo Meg has SIX Charlie babies due as of next Tuesday. Next Tuesday will be Charlie's 30th birthday. Colours and sexes unknown (wait 10 years and we'll be able to get those too).
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29/10/2021
MEG - 4 hearts are beating. Progesterone level gone from a worrying 10ng on 18/10 to over 40 ng today. Well worth the lack of sleep and alarm clocks ringing at all hours of the day and night.
29/10/2021
MEG - 4 hearts are beating. Progesterone level gone from a worrying 10ng on 18/10 to over 40 ng today. Well worth the lack of sleep and alarm clocks ringing at all hours of the day and night.
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19/10/2021
The start - Le début
I rushed off to St. Julien (with Erika for company) for Etienne to see whether Meg (inseminated by him with Charlie's straws 28 days ago) is in whelp . . . or not. FOUR were visible + one being reabsorbed but the progesterone level was dangerously low and I've probably earned my third speeding ticket in 3 weeks getting home in heavy traffic to the Pharmacy for hormone capsules. Now it's one every 8 hours day and night.
The start - Le début
I rushed off to St. Julien (with Erika for company) for Etienne to see whether Meg (inseminated by him with Charlie's straws 28 days ago) is in whelp . . . or not. FOUR were visible + one being reabsorbed but the progesterone level was dangerously low and I've probably earned my third speeding ticket in 3 weeks getting home in heavy traffic to the Pharmacy for hormone capsules. Now it's one every 8 hours day and night.
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20/09/2021
Up again yesterday at 5.40 and ready to leave for Saint Julien at 9.40. Not much fun picking up poo at 6 a.m. in the rain with failing eyesight and a frontal lamp. Why oh why isn't poo a sensible fluo colour ? Arrived well on time. Progesterone tests fine, insemination went well despite rather horrid environmental conditions for poor Meg who was stressed by the loud noises and great activity close around her. I would definitely have preferred a quieter and more protective atmosphere.
Home again at 2 p.m. to see how all the other dogs were faring and then off again in heavy traffic at 4 p.m. for the second insemination. And finally home at 8 p.m. in time for night crashing in, and a run in the dog-parks, and then bed for all the dogs. After that the cleaning of the runs where they'd been all day because of the rain. And finally supper and a G&T at 11.30 p.m.
A very long, hectic and stressful day. Meg was an angel.
Now only time will tell . . . . roll on day 23.
20/09/2021
Up again yesterday at 5.40 and ready to leave for Saint Julien at 9.40. Not much fun picking up poo at 6 a.m. in the rain with failing eyesight and a frontal lamp. Why oh why isn't poo a sensible fluo colour ? Arrived well on time. Progesterone tests fine, insemination went well despite rather horrid environmental conditions for poor Meg who was stressed by the loud noises and great activity close around her. I would definitely have preferred a quieter and more protective atmosphere.
Home again at 2 p.m. to see how all the other dogs were faring and then off again in heavy traffic at 4 p.m. for the second insemination. And finally home at 8 p.m. in time for night crashing in, and a run in the dog-parks, and then bed for all the dogs. After that the cleaning of the runs where they'd been all day because of the rain. And finally supper and a G&T at 11.30 p.m.
A very long, hectic and stressful day. Meg was an angel.
Now only time will tell . . . . roll on day 23.
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17/09/2021
The start - Le début
Up at 5h40 - it's just totally impossible to leave here for the trip to Saint Julien at 9h45 having done all that has to be done for all the dogs if I rise and shine at 6.30. So a wild and exhausting rush culminating in an arrival 15 minutes early for the 11 a.m. appointment. Meg as usual being her silly self and anxious about the reason for her being there. All is well and the bonus as we were leaving was Etienne rushing out to say that the dry-shipper from Germany had just arrived. Fed-Ex, for once, was on time and in the right place.
Next visit Monday morning at 11 a.m. and then Monday afternoon at 5.30 p.m. It's going to be one hectic and anxious day
17/09/2021
The start - Le début
Up at 5h40 - it's just totally impossible to leave here for the trip to Saint Julien at 9h45 having done all that has to be done for all the dogs if I rise and shine at 6.30. So a wild and exhausting rush culminating in an arrival 15 minutes early for the 11 a.m. appointment. Meg as usual being her silly self and anxious about the reason for her being there. All is well and the bonus as we were leaving was Etienne rushing out to say that the dry-shipper from Germany had just arrived. Fed-Ex, for once, was on time and in the right place.
Next visit Monday morning at 11 a.m. and then Monday afternoon at 5.30 p.m. It's going to be one hectic and anxious day
8 weeks/semaines.
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