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After quite a lot of debate and discussion, we decided to breed Gloria to Hunter, and we have confirmed pregnancy with puppies due October 5, 2013. X-rays show at least seven pups, with perhaps an eighth hiding behind the ribs.   [gallery columns="2"] We decided, in lieu of simply writing about why we decided on this breeding, we'd put ourselves to the test and answer our breeder questions regarding this litter. Puppies available now? We are expecting a litter the first weekend in October. Puppies will be available after Christmas (and potentially New Years). Males or females? Don’t know yet!! Color and ...
Where has the time gone? It's hard to believe the puppies are 9 weeks old already -- and harder to imagine that with most breeders they would already have gone to their new homes. Clearly puppies have been going to homes at 7-8 weeks for decades, with no apparent ill-effects in most cases, but I look at these pups and I just can't imagine sending them off on their own right now! They do so much learning over the next few weeks -- new people, new places, new experiences, and lots of learning how to be a dog and communicate with other dogs. We've had puppies that have come to us at 8 weeks and that have come to us ...
The puppies are now 4 weeks old and are doing well (knock on wood, always knock on wood!). The little girl is still very, very little, but she is gaining steadily (if slowly) and her activity and development are on par with her brothers, so we're hoping she's just little. A number of different things could be wrong, but unless we start seeing signs of a problem we've decided not to borrow trouble -- so long as I can say that if it weren't for her size I wouldn't be worried at all, I'm trying not to worry. (It's not easy -- my natural inclination is to worry exponentially more than is necessary! -- but I'm working on it.) We ...
We bred Emma to the gorgeous Jag, Ch. Randolph's Beau Jangles -- whom I always call "Clifford" in my head, because he's a big, red dog. ;) We've known Jag since he was whelped, and believe he has a lot to offer Emma. We're sure to get some gorgeous pigment in these puppies, as an added bonus! Emma had seven puppies; unfortunately the last two were stillborn. We think it's due to her prolonged labor -- 14 hours from start to finish this time. Even though many bitches take long breaks between puppies and have no issues, that doesn't seem to be the case for Emma. We suspect the puppies detached early on in the labor process, so weren't getting blood ...
In yet another attempt by the Universe to derail our breeding plans, both Evie and Emma came into season two months earlier than expected. These are girls who have been within a week or two of their expected date for five years. *sigh*
I've been thinking about updating my stud service contract lately. It's been four years since we lost Hugo, and now that Hunter and soon Potter are "of age" for stud service, it's time to revise and reflect. To help me figure out how I want to change my contract, I've been surfing through other contracts that breeders make available online. I should know better by now, but I find my self constantly surprised at the outrageous demands some stud owners make of bitches that come to them for stud service.
After months of agonizing about whether to breed both Emma and Evie when they next came into season, since they're always only a couple of weeks apart, and debating whether we could manage two litters at once, we are extremely disappointed to say that we took the leap to breed both of them and neither Emma's nor Evie's breeding took this time around.
We put a lot of time and reflection into choosing a stud dog for Emma's second litter. We considered another full-UK litter, including a repeat to Harley, but in the end decided that we didn't want to breed UK Boxers in the US (though there's actually a demand for those dogs); we got into the UK lines to add traits to the NA lines we had, rather than abandoning them entirely or keeping two separate lines going. We certainly are open to doing full-UK breedings in the future, but since we had already done that with Emma, we decided in instead to see how the UK would blend with other lines for her second trip to the whelping box.
Well, I failed at keeping this blog updated, but Emma did have her puppies by Harley - we ended up with five lovely brindle pups, four girls and one boy that we kept here, Potter. More information, weekly pictures, and links to the puppies' individual pages can be found at the litter page.
After some contemplation (and with Ginger's full support), we decided not to repeat our breeding of Evie to Abe. Although we only got one puppy from the litter, and would love to see what else the combination could produce, we decided that the missed breeding in 2008 and the singleton in 2009 were signs that, for whatever reason, this breeding was just not meant to be. We have instead decided to breed Evie to our own Abe son, Hunter. Though Hunter is still a young dog, we already see many of the qualities we liked in his sire, and are especially thrilled with his development over the past couple of months. He and Evie ...


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