Happy Valley Sammies

18/10/2023

This little cutie is on his way to Texas with his carrier Drew! So excited for Link (Blue) and his new mom Kristy and her family! Link is going to be such an amazing dog!

15/10/2023

Puppies are starting to go home. Such a bitter sweet time. I'm so excited for their new puppy parents, but we sure do miss them! On our way to drop off green!

12/10/2023

Puppies are 8 weeks old! We still have one male available! Meet Blue! He's such a lover! One of the sweetest ones we have!

07/10/2023

Everyone in Utah, watch your dogs if they get ahold of a bird. We highly suspect that's how Raya got botulism is she chewed a bird who died from botulism. Utah is having a botulism outbreak in birds!

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources say thousands of birds are believed to be dead from a suspected avian botulism outbreak first detected a few weeks ago.

05/10/2023

Raya is such a lover. My dogs sleep on my bedroom floor at night, but when Wayne goes to work early in the morning Raya always jumps up to take his place so I'm not alone in bed. This morning mason came in to sleep and Raya placed her head on him the whole time. She's such a sweetheart.

02/10/2023

Puppies have been inside almost all day since its been raining so we let them out to play in our yard for a few mins before coming back in. I think they LOVE this weather!

17/09/2023

Puppies are getting so big and so fluffy already! We still have 2 boys available! 🥰😍

07/09/2023

Puppies 1st time outside! Aren't they so cute! 🥰

27/08/2023

Puppies eyes are opening! Aurora seems so proud!

15/08/2023

Puppies! Aurora had 4 puppies in the middle of the night! 2 girls and 2 boys. Pups and momma are doing fantastic! Very chill birth (probably her calmest one yet!). Pups are still a little green from the after birth, but oh so cute! 😍

14/08/2023

This is the very typical scene when one of the girls is in labor. Sully Daddy sleeping right out the door to make sure his girls are doing ok (lol this is some of his floof coming through the bottom of the door)! Isn't he just the sweetest! Love that big boy of mine! Just makes my heart melt 🥰😍

14/08/2023

Guess who's due!?! Aurora is coming into labor! Isn't she adorable?!? Even with her dirty face from digging in the yard (she tries "nesting" in a bush we have out back and always digs a little hole for her to sit in when she's close to being due)

16/07/2023

This sweet boy is still looking for his forever home and has been EXTREMELY discounted so we can find him a home soon! Please let me know if you're interested!

02/07/2023

Poor Sully. He hates fireworks and just wants to cuddle.

01/07/2023

Puppies are 9 weeks old! We still have 3 males left and offering a heck of a deal right now! Let me know if you're interested or know of someone!

14/06/2023

Update on raya:
I thought I had posted this the other day, but I can't seem to find it!
Raya is walking and running now! What a miracle! She still walks/runs a little goofy but she's getting better every day and sometimes I can't even hardly notice! What a change only 3 weeks can make! Her hair is starting to grow back in where the vet shaved (behind her head, her bottom, and basically a spot on every leg, she really looked like a poodle for a bit there 😅) Love our Raya girl!

13/06/2023

Puppy glam shots! They are getting so big! Several are still looking for their forever families!

05/06/2023

Puppies! Mason loves his puppies!

03/06/2023

We have a new website! Please check it out! (And let me know if you see any typos 😅🤣) thank you so much!

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02/06/2023

Puppies are 5 weeks old on Saturday! That means it's puppy Glam pic time! Aren't they adorable!?!

31/05/2023

So excited! Raya got up and sat up by herself today! That's the 1st time since she got sick! Love this girl and her determination!

29/05/2023

These puppies are getting so big already! 4 weeks old last Saturday! Aurora has taken it upon herself to make sure they have a momma while Raya is healing from the botulism. Aren't they the cutests! 🥰😍

27/05/2023

Someone wants to say hi! And say she's getting stronger each day! She can roll over and loves to sleep on her back like she use to be able to! She can army crawl a little more each day. She's getting there! Slowly but sure!

24/05/2023

The vet called asking how Raya is doing and also said the results of the muscle biopsy came in. Everything was normal (no cancerous cells or any disease that were looked at) except some inflammation, which the vet said, makes the botulism the most likely cause, especially because she is getting better. We are taking her off of the many meds she was on except an antibiotic and steroid. She's getting stronger each day!

22/05/2023

Just chilling on the swing with my sweet girl Raya. She's getting more and more mobile every day!

21/05/2023

Raya is getting stronger each day! She's actually able to drag herself just a little by using her head to pull herself a couple of feet. She also rolled over to her other side last night and she's able to put weight on her front legs and support herself up if her back end is supported for about 10 seconds! She's loving being home! And let's us know if she's not getting enough love 🤣

20/05/2023

Sully won't leave rayas side. He's so happy to have her home!

19/05/2023

Guess who was allowed to come home today!?! When the vet called this morning saying she's able to move her head around great and that she thinks she can come home today I started crying! She's getting so much better! We are so excited to have her home!

18/05/2023

Raya update:

She's getting a little stronger each day! I went and visited her last night. She's able to move her head around and with help getting her head up she can actually keep it up for about 5 seconds before she lowers it back down! She's able hold herself up more when her feet are placed under her. Slowly she's making progress!

17/05/2023

Aren't puppies drinking from a baby bottle just the cutest! We've learned an actual baby bottle is way better than an "animal bottle". Love their cute faces!

17/05/2023

Another update on Raya.

Each day she's getting a little bit stronger! We went and visited her with the kids for the kids 1st time to see her in the vet. We didn't get any pics, but she was moving her head around and definitely had more muscle movement than the days before! This afternoon the vet called me. She's able to sit herself up more in a lying down position (so she's able to get her front legs under her) she still can't put her head up, but she's able to look around more and they said she barked! Which is the 1st time this whole week they've had her! Going in the right direction!

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14/05/2023

Update on Raya
BABY STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION! We are so excited! We went and visited her yesterday late afternoon. When we were there she was able to move her back legs and her head just a little by trying to get her to come to us! They said that's better than the day before! But she was still extremely limp when you picked her up (no muscle ability at all). This morning, however, they called us with more exciting news! She was able to feed herself and lap up water when brought up! she has to be syringe fed the last 2 days so this is a BIG improvement! They are starting to think it was Botulism! From an old piece of meat or something (she was hanging out in the kids play castle the night before, maybe there was something the kids left in it? Not sure as we are a pretty clean house, but it couldve been anything, a dead mouse, bird, we have lots of little critters around with the fields around). They said if it is, what happens is the bacteria from botulism destroys the connection from nerves and can have very similar effects. It takes about 30 days for the connection to the nerves to grow back. We are SO EXCITED she's improving and we might (still a BIG might) have figured it out!

Also I wanted to say just how important and how much money we saved from doing a DNA test on Raya (and all our dogs). Because of it, they were able to rule out several things that might have been (and the expenses tests that we would've had to do). So that was so good.

Lastly, I wanted to show this cute picture of AURORA (our other girl) taking care of the puppies while Raya has been away. She goes in while we are there feeding and helps them to go potty and even lies down with them. Isn't that just sweet? We love our dogs and their amazing personalities. Anyways. We are just so happy. Baby steps. But in the right direction!

13/05/2023

Update on Raya.
Unfortunately not any good news. They've started her on a few new meds (those of which I've forgotten how to say their names). All of which are just experimental to see if any of them will help. At this point she's getting weaker. She can no longer lift her head even to eat, so the vet is having to syringe feed her. Her breath is becoming more labored (but they said it could be due to the steroid she's on). She seems excited when people come in to check on her, in "good spirits", and not in any pain, but the vet said "it's like she's just trapped in her own body but wants to be normal". We are still waiting the results of the spinal core sample and muscle biopsy, which, the vet commented, may come too late. He (kindly) mentioned putting her to sleep if she doesn't improve by this weekend, as she seems to be declining. This is not the news we wanted to hear. As I sat in my car taking to the vet I started to ugly cry. I don't think I've done that for years. Just thinking of her being in the state that she's in, with the worst possible outcome just around the corner when she was completely healthy and fine just 4 days before is unfathomable and unbearable. We are hoping the test results come in soon and that we have enough time to turn this around. We are going to go see her again this afternoon and I hope we'll be able to let her know just how much she means to us and how much we need her to come back home with us.

13/05/2023

Early (really early 😅) puppy feedings! It's a good thing there're cute 🤣. In all seriousness though, I'm really coming to appreciate mommas everywhere. It's been a long time since I've had to get up every few hours to feed and man it's hard work! So in honor of mother's day (a day early) Happy Mother's day to all you mothers! And good job on your midnight feedings! You made it (or are making it!)!

11/05/2023

We have some very sad news and need prayers and good vibes. Tuesday morning we woke up to let Raya outside to go potty. When we went into her room, we noticed she was having a hard time walking. We Immediately called our vet and picked her up to have them take a look at her. All her vitals are normal, blood work came back normal, but the vet noticed what could be an infection looking at her blood though a microscope. They also suspected low ionized calcium, so they put her on calcium and an antibiotic and sent us home saying if she's not better in 24 hours or gets worst to come back. Well a few hours passed and she started having a really hard time even sitting up, so I took her to the vet again and they hospitalized her. All the test (to many to name) they are doing are coming back normal and they have her on so many different meds to just see if something might help, but she seems to be getting worst. They now suspect she has an infection in her spinal cord, so they are going to take a core sample and a muscle biopsy, but it will take at least 2 days to get the test results back, which the longer she is in this state the more likely she will decline. They are completely stumped. They do not believe it's due to her puppies or anything like that, but possibly an infection that "just happened at the same time as the puppies" and the antibiotics just aren't taking affect. We hope that the spinal core sample and muscle biopsy will tell us a little more about what's going on and how we can treat it. We are so worried about our sweet Raya girl. We went and visited her today and Wayne and I were both in tears telling her she has to make it though this. Puppies are all doing well and taking a bottle beautifully, but we really want Raya to get better so she can come back home and be with us and her puppies again. 😭 if anyone knows of anything similar that's happened to their dog please let us know. We've talked to so many different vets and specialists trying to get different ideas and so far we've come up short. It's turned our whole family upside-down and we are devastated of the possibility of "worst case scenario" if she continues to get worst. As some of you might know, our dogs are our family, they live indoors with us, sleep with us, and go everywhere with us. We are grieving for a family member who is not with us right now and not doing well.

07/05/2023

Puppies are already getting big! 😍

01/05/2023

Happy international Samoyed day! We LOVE our sammies!

30/04/2023

Raya had 5 puppies! 2 girls and 3 boys! We are SO excited!

29/04/2023

Rayas having puppies! Lol don't mind her dirty face, it's what happens when you're giving birth 🥰

24/04/2023

Rayas pics! isn't she so pretty! She's due any day now! Love her so much!