Puppies 2010

Goodbye

2010-06-29T14:49:00.000+03:00

With so little time to update when the puppies were still with us, with sadness I tell You that all the puppies have left for their new homes.

Some of the best moments were when little Hiawatha fell in the fountain at the age of 5 weeks. With no panic he started swimming around and we had to do some work to get him out of there. So, Hiawatha proved himself to be a true waterdog.

In the end of May the Spanishwaterdogs met the barbet-girls and after the first shyness they had a blast together. In the beginning of June the weather started to be warm and nice enough so that we could have the puppies outside and they just loved it! The puppies also discovered quite quickly how they could get through the fence so we had to fix the fencee with some extra net. After this the puppies soon figured out another way out of their inclosure by digging underneath the fence :)

I also discovered the fact that there was definitely no idea of keeping carpets of the floors so now when the puppies have left I have been washing carpets, several carpets ;)

It was also a quite bad idea to plants some flowers together with puppies, it ended up with a few dead and distroyed flowerplants and soil everywhere, including the puppies were covered in dry soil.

The puppies were also health checked by a veterinarian and they are all healthy puppies. The puppies were also microchipped and the Spanish waterdogs got vaccinated. I thought the trip the the vet would be exhausting and perhaps a little bit stressful for the puppies but no, they were themselves when we got back home and were screaming for food. These puppies are very good eaters, our last litter was quite bad and it took a while to get them to eat "real" food but these little ones, they like to eat ;)

After several thoughts and changing my mind,we finally decided to keep to dark brown barbet female, with a white asterix on her chest, at home. Her official name is Hapiberg's Caffe Doppio but she will be called Stella. The blondie, Caffe Latte, went to some of our very good friends and I know she will be going to shows. I think all the puppies got marvelous homes and I wish them all the luck in the future!

For pictures, please check out the picture gallery and for more news in the future, please check out our "normal" blog.

Update on the barbet princesses

2010-05-29T22:21:00.000+03:00

The girls are doing marvellous! They weigh a little more than 3 kg's each, they eat "real" food already with excellent apetite but Thara is still nursing them and they are running around and playing. The girls have now started to spend more and more time with our Spanish waterdog puppies and they like it a lot as they have more friends to play with :)

The girls have also been outside and the first time they acted as they would always have been outside. Especially nice it was when lunch was served outside, Thara nursing them on the lawn but also the real lunch was served outside. Unfortunately the weather is now quite cold and very rainy in Finland so during this week I have not had a chance to have the puppies outside :(

Now You can start to see character differencies; Caffe Espresso is the most active, she is everywhere and she is very curious, Caffe Doppio is the most like their mother = not in a hurry and very gentle and Caffe Latte is something between these two other girls.

The girls are also showing some signs of them being spoiled by their breeder. The girls have gotten used to be up in the bed for a few minutes every evening, just before I go to bed and I pet and cuddle with them and now they are telling us that they would like to be even more up in the bed ;)

The little Indians 2 weeks

2010-05-11T14:51:00.000+03:00

The little Indians 2 weeks

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Coffee-girls 2 weeks

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Newest pictures

2010-05-11T14:16:00.000+03:00

The little Indians, age: 2 weeks

Hiawatha and Pocahontas

Cherokee, Cheyenne and Pocahontas

Caffe Espresso

Caffe Latte

The Coffee -girls

Puppies two weeks old

2010-05-11T14:12:00.002+03:00

The puppies are doing fine and enjoying their babyhood - eating, sleeping and again some eating! They have all come well up in weight , they are very even.

The puppies have now developed very fast during the last few days. They are becoming lively "real" pups - they don't just sleep while not eating. Of the Spanish waterdogs Hiawatha and Cherokee were the first one to open their eyes at the end of last week, Pocahontas and Cheyenne opened their eyes during the weekend and now also the Coffee -girls eyes are almost open. The pups are also learning to walk instead of crawling, still the butt is too heavy and they fall down on their butts but their are practicing hard.

All the puppies have had their nails clipped twice and don't seem to mind that much, at least when you do it when they are asleep. During the upcoming weekend the Spanish waterdogs will be served "real" food for the first time, most likely also the Coffee -girls will also get to taste some meat.

The Coffee -girls

2010-05-05T19:57:00.001+03:00

The little Indians

2010-05-05T19:51:00.000+03:00

Age a little more than a week and weight a little more than one kilogram

2010-05-05T19:36:00.001+03:00

Labour day went quietly beside the puppy crates, or more specifically, it went on the sofa between the puppy rooms watching TV.

Last weekend I seriously thought that can gluttony be inherited? ;) The little Indians were eating too much the whole last weekend and over eating was, of course, causing some stomach pain and then the little Indians were whining and crying. We got the situation solved by taking Thyra out from the puppy room so that the Indians wouldn’t eat continuously and now the puppies are eating normally again. But I was thinking if gluttony can be inherited as this very same has happened to our litters earlier, as a small puppy Thyra sometimes ate too much, in Thyra’s last litter there was one who used to eat too much and now we had two that were eating too much. Thyra’s mother Zogi is also very greedy as well is Thyra :)
Little Emmi-girl has protested over the weekend, probably seeking for attention, although we have tried to give both Emmi and Aatu more attention than usual. Emmi begun over the weekend, as soon as our eyes avoided, to use our bed as her toilet. So, the only option currently is to keep the bedroom door closed which, of course, is a bummer on Aatu’s behalf because he likes to sleep on our bed or underneath the bed. Emmi’s other idea is to jump on the kitchen table, which of course, is not allowed. She has also started to steal things from tables which is not so nice either. We need to figure out something that she will stop with these things.

The little Indians have now for a few days been practicing to walk but yet is very wiggly. The ears are little by little starting to “open” and you can notice that they already can hear very loud noises, like to other dog barking. Also the barbet ears are starting to open but they can’t yet hear anything or if they do, they don’t show it. The barbets are still crawling, no intentions on starting to learn how to walk.

Both litters have gained weight excellently, all barbets being more than one kilogram now and three out of four Spanish waterdogs being more than one kilogram.

The barbets weigh now:

Caffe Doppio (brown female with white asterix on chest) 1060 gr
Caffe Espresso (brown female with white paws) 1070 gr
Caffe Latte (sable) 1125 gr

The little Indians weigh now:
Brown male 1065 gr
Black male 1170 gr
Brown girl 1010 gr
Brown little girl 805 gr

I have today started the registration process at the Finnish Kennelclub and the official names of the puppies will be:

Barbets aka Coffee –girls (http://www.yourguidetoitaly.com/types-of-italian-coffee.html)
Hapiberg´s Caffe Doppio
Hapiberg’s Caffe Espresso
Hapiberg’s Caffe Latte

The Spanish waterdogs will be:

Brown male: Hapiberg’s Cherokee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee)
Black male: Hapiberg’s Hiawatha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha)
Brown girl: Hapiberg’s Pocahontas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas)
Brown little girl: Hapiberg’s Cheyenne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne)

When we were breeding rottweilers we followed the alphabet but now with the waterdogs we have had different themes and we continue with that.

The Coffee -puppies

2010-04-30T16:07:00.000+03:00

The little Indians

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The latest news from the puppybox

2010-04-30T15:52:00.002+03:00

Thyra’s puppies or the “The Indians” as we call them, are tomorrow already one week old and Thara’s or “The Coffee-puppies, are also already three days old. In ”The Indians” development can be seen every day, on Wednesday, ”The Indians” began yawn and on Thursday and we noticed that the paw starts to “whisk” when scratching the puppy on his belly. ”The Indians” are very determined, they know exactly which “milk-tap” they want and let’s everyone know if they don’t get it or if someone is pushing them, they are therefore relatively loud now;) Thyra was for a few days quite difficult due to her enormous interest in Thara’s puppies and we or the puppies had to remind Thyra to nurse and take care of her offspring. Now the situation has calmed down and is almost back to normal, the way it was before Thara got her puppies.

Thara’s puppies, or the “Coffee puppies” as we call them, are very different, quiet and and nice, just eating and sleeping and hardly ever saying anything. Thara has, since she got over her first confusion about her offspring, proven to be an excellent and calm, very good taking care mother. As she is a bigger dog with a quite active background she might get up from the puppybox and take short “walks” in the puppyroom or she might, if the puppies are sleeping, take a walk in to the livingroom but return very quickly back to her babies.

The puppies, both litters have gained weight very well, also the little “Indian” girl.

”The Indians” weight increase, since birth until yesterday:

Brown male + 290 gr
Black male + 295 gr
Brown female + 305 gr
Little “Indian”-girl + 185 gr
Coffeepuppies weight increase, since birth until yesterday:
Caffè Doppio (dark brown with white asterisk) + 115 gr
Espresso (dark brown with white paws) + 145 gr
Caffé Latte (beige) + 155 gr

Thara's puppies, first evening

2010-04-28T20:57:00.000+03:00

Thara's puppies, 1 day old

2010-04-28T20:55:00.000+03:00

27.4.2010 Hapiberg's first barbet litter born

2010-04-28T14:44:00.000+03:00

On the 27th of April, Thara (Nelum-Himalis Boheme) gave birth to her and Caravaggio's three princesses!

For those of You who know and have met Thara, know that she is never in a hurry, I think her wisdom of life is: "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished". The same way she handled the matter of giving birth, the temperature went below 37 degrees so I didn't even notice it, just some small efforts of making the puppy crate better and a good sleep...and ooops, they were here! Three strong and healthy females, one beige and two darkbrown.

Thara the day before the puppies

Spanish Waterdog puppies, 2 days old

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Pictures of the puppies

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Black male

Brown male

Little brown girl

Brown girl

24.4.2010 Spanish Waterdog puppies born!

2010-04-26T12:56:00.000+03:00

Thyra (Hapiberg Margarida's) and Eetu (Caraydan Chile Bravo) puppies (2 +2) were born on Saturday 24th of April, 2010!

Thyra went into labor on Friday the 23rd at about. 17 and shortly before midnight, I thought that puppies are going to be born before the morning coffee. About 3 am, all prenatal activities suddenly ended and Thyra slept beside me in bed until the morning, sometimes changing her position. In the morning I called our veterinarian who thought the best would be to go to see him at the clinic.
Our veterinarian examined Thyra and he told me that Thyra was completely open but unfortunately the contractions were very weak and the best option would be to do a Caesarean section. Thyra was prepared for the surgery and for puppies were taken out! The black male was quite big and he was stopping the others from coming out but he didn't come out either.
So at 1 pm a black male (445gr), brown male (390gr), brown female (345gr) and a little brown female (295gr) were born.

As soon as Thyra came out from the operating room the puppies were put beside her and they astarting eating immediately. Thyra was barely awake when she already wanted to start to take care f her little ones. So, the puppies were with their mother until Thyra was completely waken up and then we got permission to go home. Car trip home went splendidly, with the exception of a small noices from the puppies whenever the road was bumpy.

When we got home, Thyra went directly to the puppy pen and started to wash and clean her babies.

The puppies and Thyra are doing great. Thyra has been eating with good apetite, she goes out extremely quickly and the only sign of her having c-section is that she doesn't want to bend very far to the puppies so if she thinks a puppy is too far from her she whines and then you have to go and pick up and "return" the puppy to Thyra. But I can' stop amazing what a wonderful mother she is!

Maternity check up and waiting

2010-04-23T20:43:00.000+03:00

Today I took Thara to the veterinarian for a "maternity" check up. Thara's pregnancy has been very closely followed up by her veterinarian to avoid any unpleasant surprises. Thara's progesterone-level was deterimed and today it is 7, when it is below 2 the labor is close, so in Thara's case it is not yet the time. Thara's veterinarian said is is very unlikely that she will give birth this upcoming weekend but it is not an exclusive option. Thara's is today 60 days pregnant so according to that it shouldn't be the time yet.

Thyra is coming closer to giving birth, her bodytemperature is still under 37 degrees Celsius, she has not eaten today, she is gasping quite a lot and she has been making her puppy-pen a little bit. So, I think the undersigned will have a loooooong night ahead.... ;)

Is it time soon?

2010-04-23T09:51:00.000+03:00

This morning Thyra's bodytemperature has dropped to 36,8 so she should be giving birth within 24 hours, according to books but when it is about us, nothing is sure ;) Thara's bodytemperature has also started dropping, this morning being 37,5. Thyra didn't eat this morning, Thara ate but not with good apetite, she was quite choosy and only ate the "goodies" (read: the meat). Today I'm going with Thara to see her veterinarian to have her progesterone-level determined and after that we should now more about the situation.

Good things come to those who wait. Or do they?!

2010-04-22T11:03:00.000+03:00

I'm sure they do but WHEN is the crucial question. Thyra's bodytemperature is still the same as it has been since the weekend (in the mornings aprrox 37,2 and in the evenings 37,6) but Thara's bodytemperature has started dropping. Thara's bodytemperature has steadily been around 38 degrees and this morning it has dropped to 37,6 degrees Celcius.

Thyra is today 62 days pregnant and Thara is 59 days pregnant. Both still eating very well and yesterday evening they both got excited and started to play with Emppu.

When being outside one should have eyes both on the frontside but also on the back, Thyra is still very keen on wanting to go and hide and just when I have commanded Thyra out of a hole under some big stones Thara has disappeared and I have to command her to get out from underneath some bushes.

My hubby, meaning Johan, is also now at home. He has one week off from work, to be at home and help me with the nursery, when we get that far ;)

I just have to say I simply love my parents, they are just so helpful and 100% into this whelping. Dad just called me this morning and asked how the situation looks and if he could go to the town and see a friend of his who is helping him with his various projects in the yard. He promised to be back home as soon as possible and even more quickly if something starts to happen :)

Time has passed by and now we are just waiting

2010-04-20T20:30:00.000+03:00

Two weeks has just flown by, sometimes I have had a feeling that there is not enough hours in the day...

The pregnant ladies are doing just fine. Thyra has now her 60th day of pregnancy and Thara is 57 days pregnant. Thyra's temperature is lowly dropping, today being 37,2 degrees Celcius, Thara's temperature is still 38 degrees Celcius.

Both are eating with good apetite. A week ago Thara was eating quite poorly until we noticed that she didn't want to eat with her head down so we fixed it by serving her her food on a tiny table which is just the perfect height for her. Talking about spoling her ;)

I have not taken the ladies out for walks for a week now, they have just been out in the garden. One week ago I noticed that especially Thara didn't enjoy the walks anymore. The pace has slowed down for both ladies, now they just walk slowly in the garden investigating the earth.

Last Thursday (14.4.2010) I took both ladies to the veterinarian for a check up and Thara had gained weight a little more than 4 kg's and Thyra had gained a little more than 3 kg's.

Yesterday Thyra started to want to go and hide, she tried to go under every stone she possible could think of so now the dogs are not allowed to go out alone, either one of us goes out with them. The good thing about it is that the weather has been great and I have got a lot done in the garden.

Thara's "appartment"

2010-04-07T11:46:00.000+03:00

During Easter holiday we built the "puppy box" for Thara. First she was very suspicious about it but later on she started to like it very much, now she sleeps in it but she also wants to have her food served in there :)

Progress of the ladies' pregnancy

2010-04-07T11:43:00.000+03:00

Both pregnant ladies are doing fine. Thara is now 44 days pregnant and Thyra is 47 days pregnant.

In the beginning Thara had some "morning sickness" and she ate quite poorly but now she is almost back to normal. Thyra is eating as well as she has always. Last week I started to change their food from normal dry food to puppy dry food and they are also getting a "snack" during the day.

Both ladies are getting quite round around the belly and the nipples are getting bigger. Thyra is very proud of her belly and loves to show it. On Thyra the pregnancy can be seen more clearly than on Thara but You can clearly see that also Thara is pregnant.

Thyra showing her belly

Thara taking it easy, no stress :)

Both pregnant ladies

Spanish Waterdog puppies should be born during week 16!

2010-04-07T11:15:00.001+03:00

Spanish Waterdog puppies are expected to be born during week 16!

Dam: C.I.B & POHJ & FIN & DK & SE & NO & RU CH Hapiberg's Margarida "Thyra"

Sire: FIN & LV & EE CH Caraydan Chile Bravo

Barbet puppies should be born during week 16!

2010-04-07T11:14:00.000+03:00

Barbet -puppies are expected to be born during week 16!

Dam: C.I.E & Nord & FIN & DK & SE & SK & NO & RU CH WW-08 WW-09 NordW-08 FinW-07 FinW-08 FinW-09 BaltW-09 Nelum-Himalis Boheme

Sire: C.I.B & IT & FR & AT & CH & HR & SM & SLO CH EUW-07 Caravaggio

Thara

Caravaggio