We are a week old !

Smilling Mom

Ciara’s puppies are one week old ! Everyone is progressing well gaining weight everyday !  Ciara is in seveth heaven as she is presented with endless meals with treats, of course this week being thanksgiving she has had her share of turkey and pumpkin;  the little ones are like little pirhannas in a feeding frenzie! What is most comical is the concert that goes along with the feeding activities, they all make little happy noises as they are feeding, voicing their approval of mom’s tasty milk ! 
 
Here are their ‘official’ portrait of week one. 
 
First the Girls

Here are MS Purple, Red and Yellow

Ms Red .

 

Ms Yellow

Ms White
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

MS Orange White & Pink

 
 

MS Orange

 

Ms Pink

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MS Purple

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And the Boys: 
 

Mr Brown & Mr Black

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mr Black

 

Mr Brown

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mr Blue and Mr Green

 

Mr Blue

 
 
 
 

Mr Green

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Here is Ciara with the 10 little mice all sound asleep !

11 sleepy heads

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La pouponnière de Ciara

CIara très enceinte

 
Ciara  ( prononcer Kira) est notre petite fille qui a un nom Gaelic puisqu’elle est née le 17 mars !
 
Cet été elle a été accouplée avec Topher qui demeure a Denver au Colorado.  Avec les merveille de la technologie moderne, Topher est arrivé dans une petite ampoule surgelée a Halifax et a attendu patiemment que Ciara soit prête a le recevoir.
 
Le vétérinaire de Ciara est aussi un spécialiste de la reproduction et Ciara est aussi née suite a une procédure semblable pour sa mère Lia .   Les embryons canin ne s’attached pas a l’utérus tout de suite, ils se multiplient pendant 18 jours avant de s’implanter, il faut donc attendre en général 28 jours  pour faire une échographie et confirmer la grossesse.

On attend !

 
A ce moment la on peut voir les coeurs battre !  Le test de Ciara montrait qu’il y avait plusieurs chiots, ils étaient tout partout sur l’écran.  Dr. C.  ne s’est pas prononcé sur le nombre exact car il y en avait trop !
 
Pendant la grossesse on se garde en forme, Ciara a pris ses marches de 5 km tous les jours jusqu’a une semaine de la naissance.  Vers le 55 ième jour on peut prendre une radiographie pour confirmer le nombre de chiots et evaluer leur position et leur grosseur. 
 
Le 7 octobre dans le milieu de la nuit, Ciara a commencé a vouloir faire son nid, elle n’avait pas de position comfortable et se levait souvent pour marcher, et refaire son nid.  Au matin, elle a courut après les chevreuils dans la cour et elle était de bonne humeur malgré la coute nuit.  Elle est arrivée a l’hopital vers 11:30  et a 12:30 elle avait donné naissance a 10 très gros chiots tout en santé !
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ciara’s Nursery

Born to Ciara and Topher on October 7th,  4 males and 6 females !

Très pregnant !

Here is Ciara just before leaving for the hospital to deliver her babies, she was very big !

 
 
 
 
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We are all grown up!

Sammy new do

We are 7 weeks old this week and to celebrate our Granny gave us the experience of being groomed, so here we are sporting our new groomed ears !

Mr Red in his glory !

 

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Having fun !

 

 

Look at me !

 

 

 

 

 

We have new teeth!

 

Schnauzer swatting

 

 

 

 

 

Is it safe to come out ?

 

The best toy right now are the stairs !

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing in the dirt

Hide and Seek

The need for speed

Flying..... All out

Here I come

Hunting with Mom

And Mom is teaching us all new things like hunting !
More to come later!
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Freedom!

Who's calling ?

Saturday we were 6 weeks old !  Granny let us out to play in the big yard !  What fun we had 🙂

Of course the most interesting toy, often was granny herself with her camera!

Ahhh! Freedom to run !

It was a hard go to get all three in the same picture, here they are !

Three litlle schanuzers

Les 3 amigos

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I came through the tunnel !

Their new tunnel is a lot of fun

Me Too !

Rarely do they pose when they come out !
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It's mine

A toy from the older dogs is always more fun !

 

 

 

 

 

 

The need for speed !

The need for speed !
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Granny's pants are a toy too !

Her shoes too !

Sometimes we have to recharge !

A quiet moments to recharge the batteries

Pecfect stack

Sometimes we stop just long enought to admire the scenery !

Best Pals

Best Pals

Did you know my daddy was a tracking dog?

Here is one of the pups practicing tracking.  Seasar , their daddy has his  TD title -Tracking Dog
It is fun to see them trying to evade their siblings when they find a new toy !

 

It's mine

It’s mine

Schnauzers are laughing all the time !

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 Here I come

Having a blast

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Another convenient pause !

These nice stacks are completely lucky, as these pictures come from a set of 250  I shot during our outing !

And then we collapse into total battery discharge !

And then we collapse into total battery discharge !

See you next week !

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