Flute wins an Award of Merit !

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Line

Last week end the Standard Schnauzer Club of America held its National Specialty at the Purina Farms in Grey Summit, Missouri. This was one big schnauzer show week end called the Schnauzapaloza as there also were specialties for the Miniature and Giant Schnauzers. There were schnauzers everywhere !

The entry for the Standard schnauzer was the largest ever, in conformation only there were 200 competing ! There were schnauzers in herding, sheeps and ducks, obedience, rally and agility as well !

This makes it even more special that Flute, Breeze and Bennie’s daughter, shown by her owner, Brooke Thomas from Wisconsin won an Award of Merit at this very special event!

Here is Brooke and Flute showing their style and below, the coveted ribbon !

Thanks Brooke for showing Flute so well !

Congratulations to both of you!

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Bloopers !

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Line

I often get comments on the pictures that get posted on the blog and on the site in general. For those who indulge in photography, you know that these pictures are often the 5 or 6 out of… 250 shots! More often than not, specially with dogs or puppies, the subject is long gone or will not ‘stay’ for any length of time to let you take a good shot, so to mitigate this you have to shoot away and sort out the ‘good’ one. This is often a long and tedious task to find the good angle and then to crop the picture properly. I have to habit of not deleting every bad shot so sometimes in looking back there are a few funny ones.

Like this one of Ciara when the pups were just born, looking ‘oriental’ . Ciara is a hard one to take pictures of as she blinks like I have never seen a dog blink before; I treasure the pictures of her with her eyes open !

Sometimes they are just plain funny like Pepper who seems to be pulling his tongue at me!

And those cute pictures with mom ! Well it took two sessions and many, many pictures ….

Specially when Ciara even had no intention of getting her picture taken !

Or the puppies find more interesting things to play with !

Sometimes all I need is to see the picture ‘within’, and with a bit of cleaning up I get a fairly decent picture: here is the original, and the cleaned up version that you saw on the blog

And sometimes the first one is the one because .. they are gone in a flash!

See you later alligator !

Visit Ciara’s Nursery for pictures of the puppies in their new homes !

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Going Home!

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Line

As I had mentioned before, time goes too fast with puppies, you have waited for the mom to come in season, have done the breeding, waited to see if we were pregnant and finally the day came when they were born. From the moment you hold these little puppies they make you smile and they fill your day. But then the wait continues for the families, first they get to see the pictures and then the moment comes when they can come and visit their little one , time is at a standstill! And then the day comes when the families come to get their little man, it is a most happy day that most of us remember for a long long time ! For us, although we know they will be going, is a day of mixed feelings; you hope that you choose the right homes where the puppies will be happy and make people happy and you share in their joy when they finally take their precious little man home, but it leaves our house feeling empty, at least for a few days, as they were such a big part of our lives for the last two months.

Here is a few pictures we did for Charlie’s and Pepper’s going home books.

Pepper

and Pepper with mom

and Charlie

Charlie with mom

Join us next week for a fun look at the Bloopers !

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Run Run !

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Line

What is really fun to watch are the puppies when they get to go outside. In anticipation of their birthday tomorrow we did some pictures today while the boys just let their hair down. Enjoy !

“We want out !!!!” Pepper demanding to be let out while Charlie pleads !

Funny things happen too, look at the picture to see what Louie is up, or down, to !!

Freedom to explore !

And run, and run, and run……

We had a ball !!!

Needless to say that after all that playing outside they very pretty tired !

A tired pup is a happy pup ! ( May be it is the parents !!!) They slept for the rest of the afternoon !

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On the move !

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Line

This week marks the puppies sixth week birthday! As you will see they are real little dogs, getting excited, showing preferences and voicing their discontent !

They now move things around, explore dark corners and play hard. They are fast and at times they successfully disappear for a second or two !

Can you see anyone in there ?

The boys are really fascinated by the puppies, I guess since they do not have to feed them and clean them, they retain some of the magic ! Here is Great Great Great Uncle Tempête visiting and brother Louie having a close up. The puppies had the opportunity to run loose with Mom and Louie, what a hoot that was!