Eventful Weeks

Seems like every minute is full of things to do these days and last week was a blur of activity.

Learning to go up...

On Monday (14th), I loaded the boy puppies in the car when Stoker and I went to agility class.  I set a pen up for them alongside the arena and they got to visit with my agility classmates.  This was good practice for car rides and, other than a small amount of howling in the car, everyone did well (no pooping or vomit during the car ride).

On Tuesday afternoon (15th), Maquah's "Mom", Elaine, flew in from California.  She spent the day at the house Wednesday getting to know the puppies while Jan and I were at work.

On Thursday (17th), we loaded the pups up and headed for Pat Hasting's house in Aloha.  Pat is renowned for her "puppy puzzle" litter evaluation techniques and evaluated the pups for structure.  We were pleased with the results from Pat and always learn a lot when we visit her.  Elaine got an autographed copy of one of Pat's books and we put the pups back in the car and took them home for lunch and a romp on the patio.

In the afternoon, we loaded the babies up again and took them to the vet for their first vaccination and microchipping.  Everyone checked out well at the vet and we got comments on how social the pups are.  They REALLY like people!

Learning to go down...

Elaine left to head back to California on Thursday evening.

Friday was uneventful, but the puppies had lots of visitors again over the weekend.

This Monday (21st) Great-Granny Chili and I took the girl puppies with us to agility class.

Yesterday (Thursday the 24th) all the pups went to the eye vet for an eye exam.  They checked out just fine, as expected.  

It's really fun to share the puppies with everyone and it is extremely good socialization for them.  They are getting stronger, more confident and more active seemingly by the minute and it is harder to keep up with them.  It's a good thing they are heading for their new homes this weekend!


We've continued to load pics on the flickr albums linked on the sidebar of the blog, although we do have some we haven't uploaded yet.  We'll post "going home" pics as the pups leave this weekend.