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Raised Bichons for years and now taking care of retired girls and guys, let me know if questions. Cheri passed away in 2012 when she was hit by a car.
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*Animal lover by heart and loves raising puppies*

I started my hobby by breeding my first Bichon Frise' that I raised from a puppy. She was our big baby. I'm so glad I kept two of her pups from her litter. I fell in love with breeding puppies. I currently have 6 Bichon Frises. Sometimes you just fall in love with that one puppy out of a litter and she's a keeper. This has happened a few times wit

h us. Our bichons -
Curly Bear (Our male)
Tw***ie (sister of Ariel)
Ariel (sister of Tw***ie)
Bonnie (Ariel's daughter)
Mia (Ariel's daughter from another litter)
Bria (Tw***ie's daughter-the baby)

We also have a Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier who resides at Great Oak Pups. Daisey has only had one litter of pups

I tell everyone that I do not ship my puppies, so I sell locally. My locally has been to a Canadian visiting Wash., DC, and Connecticut, to as far South as Nags Head , S.C., but they come to pick up the pup, that's what matters.

09/30/2024

Anyone with personal or company helicopters are desperately needed to get to otherwise inaccessible areas in Appalachia, roads washed out. Gas is sold out. Generators need gas. They need Water and life sustainable medications, insulin, antibiotics, and tents, and short term housing. Linemen can’t get where they need to be by truck. Supplies being trucked in but need air support.

11/02/2023

Close up of Melisa’s little male that is available …he has an adorable face…

10/31/2023

Melisa Evans has one male pup 🥰 available from her last litter. She has Louie, Charlie’s son. Message her if you are interested to find out more…

03/21/2023

Bonnie turned 12 years old in December. Vet appointment today. Felt something wasn’t quite right , she has put on almost a pound since last year. Vet found she has a 3/6 heart mummer and we decided to check X-ray. Heart size increased from 2 to 4 ribs. I guess weight increase could be just not a active as usual. Lungs are clear. Started on an ACE inhibitor to try to help heart workload.

01/02/2023

I've just reached 400 followers! Thank you for continuing support. I could never have made it without each one of you. 🙏🤗🎉

01/02/2023

Have a 2023 🎉 that is filled with good health, family, friends and wonderful memories for your loved ones❤️🥰.

Charlie is quietly begging for some of the New Year ham. Love the little man.🥰

10/14/2022

To hit a nostalgic note, here are a couple more pages from my Great Oak Pups memory book. 😌Ariel is my last furbabe from the second generation of babes. She is the sister to T***k. She is doing very well🥰, and I pray 🙏 she continues to be healthy. ❤️❤️

10/14/2022

I never fully knew the turmoil that folks go through deciding the right time to help their furbabies to the rainbow bridge😢. Curly Bear took that decision from me, thank his little heart. ❤️😢
But T***k had been getting worse. The growth was steady growing and becoming vascular, I couldn’t clean her mouth without causing it to bleed. 😢. When I woke with blood up and down the bed Saturday morning, I knew I had to make a decision. 😭😭 My delemnia was she was still eating her puréed food fairly well and she liked going outside and sitting with the sun on her face. I didn’t like that she had started having what I called fear episodes where she’d just started shaking like she was afraid, I’d pick her up and take her outside or talk to her and it would pass. Mia was her shadow, she would come in the house before T***k did. Same for going outside. T***k has been deaf and mostly blind for quite a while. She would find her familiar places. I’d put her food in front of her and coax her to eat. Weigh the quality🧐🧐😫
I decided to make her appointment for Monday. I struggled with whether to put a pic tonight and I decided that it was a part of her life struggle. I snuggled her in my lap while Dr. Stevens helped her along. Tonight was the first time I could bring myself to post this to my fb friends.
T***k was my little Princess hence her long ear hair.🥰🥰

09/30/2022

Thinking about T***k and Ariel and pages from their book.

09/30/2022

I usually like to post happy uplifting news, but life deals a bit different and when we deal with aging babes we must deals with their up as well as their downs. T***kle Star and Ariel were named by my children when they were young, you can tell. They are both my oldest girls. The mothers of my other three girls. Tw***ie was 15 in May. That is about when I started to notice irregular spot on the gum of her lower mandible. It wasn’t there when she had her dental earlier in the year. I had started giving her soft food after her dental so didn’t affect her eating at first. Tried antibiotics x 2 at first in case infection, blood work ok. Used anti inflammatory when it seemed to bother her. It has gradually grown in size and has a small necrotic area inside so need to see vet again. I have been giving her puréed food for a while now. Need to check her weight too. She was my rock when her mother, Cheri died. She does like to be cuddled, she cuddled you, if you know what I mean. She has a Princess demeanor. She still comes to me every night to be lifted up to sleep with me. Charlie thinks I move too much and Ariel doesn’t like to be crowded. T***k will take my knees or my feet. The rest think it’s too crowded unless there’s a storm.

08/09/2022

Curly Bear was a little sweetheart.. he was a very independent little guy. He wasn’t a cuddler but he would stay still as long as he was getting his back or tummy scratched. The Lynchburg humane society does cremations for the public. You will be missed, my little man.

07/24/2022

Curly Bear bounced back from his last setback in May and did reasonably well for a couple more months… had to tempt him to eat .. his possibles were egg salad, chicken salad, cheese, green beans, he liked Vienna sausage for a while. He’d eat a couple bites at the time. He kept drinking water which kept him going. Liked his ear scratches and hanging with the other fur family. But he was so pale and anemic with the renal disease, he moved so slow when he went outside. I thought yesterday about helping him to the rainbow bridge, but he saved me from making that decision. 😥He went to the rainbow bridge 🌈 on his own this early morning around 3 am.🍃🍀🦋💋🫶🏻

Curly Bear was the first boy I got to go with my T***k and Ariel from Cheri. They grew up together and had Bria, Mia, and Bonnie. Then came Charlie.

05/27/2022

My babe, (14 1/2), Curly Bear was diagnosed with Renal disease in November, he was doing sort of status quo, couldn’t get any weight on him, but he has had a decline this week, his creat, phos, and bun are high and off the chart. White count elevated and quite anemic. He stopped eating last night. Tempted him with a bit of sardines and he couldn’t keep it down. Vet gave him baytril, Cerenia, and fluids. Got extra fluids to give him for the weekend. Pic of him this morning before vet appointment.

05/17/2022

My little gardens are doing well this year…I planted two extra beds this year, the long single one where I’m planting most of the strawberries and the bigger one I made in our old dog lot to avoid the deer I hope. I don’t think the deer like the bags of leaves that are around the lot. I hope it continues that way. In the big lot I planted the “three sisters” -plus the volunteers that came from the winters compost put there, Pumpkin, a few tomatoes and some “ don’t know yet.”

04/25/2022

Melisa just sent me another pic of the two babes… and look who photo bombed… Louie… Charlie’s boy. These babes are perfect age at ten weeks old. Oh, they look so comfy being carried around.🤗🫠. Get in touch with Melisa if interested.

04/25/2022

When you raise a litter of Bichon pups, usually all the pups are spoken for within a couple weeks and you have to turn people away which is really hard. Then one of your new homes extends pickup and then backs out… sometimes there are good reasons… but that means babes are back looking for good forever homes. These are Charlie’s grand babies… two were to go together, but they are at a perfect age to go to new homes, 10 weeks, and they don’t have to go together. One girl and one boy, both little cuties. Contact Melisa Evans on Facebook. She is in Virginia, near Charlottesville. Let me know if you have problems contacting her.

02/14/2022

Melisa Evans had a litter of pups. Little mommy did a good job. They are Charlie’s grand babies.

02/09/2022

The vet said that if she had been in a fight, she would say that she was the one that lost. We had a combination of staples and stitches. She had six growths removed, not counting around her eye. We sent the full skin thickness one away for analysis. And she had her dental and two little teeth removed. Blood work good. Her urine though was too alkaline, so we’re working on that for now. Daisy is my only Soft Coated Wheaton Terrier and she is 13 years old.

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