Happy International Dog Day......I guess. Seems like every day is Russian Jerk day here at our house. We wouldn't want it any other way. Of course I got my spot...sorta. She still controls my foot room.
Happy International Pet Day! Anyone is more than welcome to share photos of their companion.
Watch at about 1:42 into the video. Luna 5akes a snowbath.
This is the way Luna welcomes Blaine home. She is becoming more pretty as the days go by.
Luna loves kisses. She just doesn't like when you make kissing noises at her. Later she would put her paw on my arm, and ask if Bella would stop. This is the first time we have ever seen this behavior. Now she does it on the drop of a dime.
Step 1, buy or build dog cart(I ended up scrapping the idea of building one out of a old metal bunk bed. I am turning that into a floating bed for the yard). CHECK
Step 2, get old Go cart to run. CHECK
Step 3, begin fitting leads to the front of Go cart. IN PROGRESS
Step 4, wait until the kids get home from Vacation to fit the dogs, and have someone drive while I lead the dogs.
Step 5, train dogs with direction, and movement.
Step 6, enter parades, and show off my pack and training skills.
Step 7, check off training my very own dog sledding team from my bucket list.
Keep an eye out in the coming months. I plan to catalog this endeavor so all of you can follow along. While we won't have nearly the amount of cute husky puppy photos, I am still keeping the page interesting enough that most of you will still like to follow along.
Just a little Husky sing-a-long.
We are doing bags of ice in the kiddie pool today. The puppies love playing in it. To be honest I thought about trying to squeeze into one of those buckets after work last night. Watch how Dory tosses, and catches the ice. She is going to be an expert treat catcher when she gets older.
Hope's big brother Zues is still trying to figure out how to impress this little las. Here you can see him clearly trying to win her over by sharing his toys. We started out our Married life with a Lab, and Husky. These guys touch a special place because of it. Thanks Matt!
They are getting big. We pulled our ads for a couple of weeks. We are having a hard time letting this group go. This may be the last litter born for Extraordinary Tails. We have two breeding seasons left with Scarlett, but we know we won't be having any litters next year.
A little Wednesday morning puppy fix for you all.
Drying them off after the bath.
Miracle, Grace, Faith, and Hope got their first baths yesterday. Now that we have moved them to paper Scarlett will slowly start to relinquish control of them to us. They are getting big. I will post some stills, and drying them in the comments.
Let me preface this with an obligatory "Yes the dog yard is out of control. Yes I have been slacking. I promise it will be mowed by Wednesday.". At no time were any of the dogs in danger. I knew exactly what kind of snake it was from the get go. If you look closely the little guy had guts. He had hair in his mouth from trying to bite the dogs. Snakes are the only creature my dogs are afraid of. They will kill a Trash Panda faster than you can blink. They will chase deer until the sun goes down. A itty bitty snake on the other hand, they think that Satan himself has arrived. I have better photos of the snake I will post in the comments.
Having said that, now Amy can hound me when I don't mow it by Wednesday. The rest of the yard is mowed. The hills on both sides have been mowed. I just haven't wanted to freak the dogs out by driving the mower back there. Everyone is a little edgy with pups in the house.
Scarlett's pups are starting to ween. Another day, or two, and they will have it down. Scarlett still feeds them, but she spends less time in the box. We have fought so hard for this litter we are starting them a little early. We are still a about a week away before we start introducing a gruel made from formula, and puppy food. Time is just running away with this litter.
Scarlett's litter is doing really well. All of them have their ears, and eyes open. Since they bottle fed they instantly head towards us when they hear our voices. When we pick them up they start swinging their little heads around looking for a bottle. The funny thing is, they don't want the bottle. It must be comforting for them. It is a huge comfort for us as well. They will be 3 weeks tomorrow. Eight weeks is never long enough when it comes to a litter. This time we are already fearful of when the time comes. These guys mean so much to us. We even miss them when we are at work.
It doesn't get much better than this after hard day at work.
*****Update*****
Luna just had her 5th puppy. I still anticipate one more. She is still going strong and super happy to have all her babies. Andy is sleeping. She has really hung on to this one. All babies and mom are doing well.
So far we have a Wolf Grey Female, and Red and White Male. I had to pull the "I'm too tired to go on. I am going to sleep, wake me if anything happens.". She then proceeded to have the first pup about an hour later. I knew what I was doing. Thankfully Amy had a bit more reserves than me.
Loki with the wild tongue. We sometimes call him Odee. He likes his people. We are kind of fond of him too.
For everyone who has started following along recently I wanted to share Scarlett in her true form. This is the funny love she produces. She is sleeping now in typical husky fashion. It allowed me to get a decent shot of her incision. I will post that as a comment on this post.
