Happy BIRTHDAY to the Candy x Fog Babies!!

Candy is sending out Birthday Wishes to all her pups!!

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!Her son Hershey sure looks like his MOMMA!!

Daddy Foggie sends his best wishes too!!

Son Crow sure looks like his DADDY!!

The entire family here at Plum Ridge send BIRTHDAY wishes out to the rest of the litter as well!! (Race, Rime, Taffy, Warrick & Gecko)

Dinner Perks!!

I have had a few people ask me if I ever feed "raw" to the dogs. YEP WE DO!!

Normally I buy chicken parts once (or more) a week, to supplement their premium dry food. All my puppies are also introduced to raw before they go to their new homes as well. This is easy to get for me year round but the cost does add up. However, one of the great "perks" of living in the Midwest in the fall is DEER HUNTING SEASON!!

This year I have been happy to get fresh venison for the dog!! It's bow hunting season and we have yet to open the shotgun season ... so there should be plenty more to come!! Lots of deer and VERY inexpensive!!

Please excuse the photos ... I had loaned my good camera out when I got my first deer hindquarters so had to use an old one.
First night I got the parts home, Shine (Carver's daughter) was just thrilled to get a good nibble!!

Malone was more than willing to carry it away if I would have let him.

He was able to remove the fur and skin no problem.

Then Malone got smart, he held the leg down with his paw and just gnawed away.

Candy was more than happy to chew away at it too.

YUM!!!

Not much left when the dogs were done!!

Another 'perk' to living in the country!!

The Candy boys

These boys are just a blast!!!

Crow found a squishy soft mud puddle to cool off in!!

Hershey loves to lay in the pools to cool off!!

When a pool is not around, Hershey is fine with a bucket!!

These two sure look ALIKE!! Sometimes when I see them from a distance I call Hershey "Candy" by mistake!!

Candy x Fog PUPPIES

Here is a photo of the entire litter when they were just hours old.

There are seven total. 6 boys and only ONE girl!!

This boy was born second, and came as quite a surprise!! Fog's father was never bred to anything that could produce red (Mac only sired one litter) yet Fog's grandmother was red factored so we knew there was a 'chance' he could be red factored. BUT I certainly didn't think I would get lucky enough that he would produce reds.

My very first personally owned BC was a dark (darker than a choc. lab) red... so they hold a special place in my heart. Candy sure helped to produce this deep rich red boy.
This milk chocolate boy came from both sides of the pedigree. He has very little white (which is similar to Mom Candy & Dad Fog). Grandma Cloud has very little minimal white too.

This is the other dark black boy with very little white.

AND the ONE AND ONLY GIRL!!! She is similar in size to her male siblings... if it was not for her thinner white collar I would not spot her in the 'pile'.

These photos were snapped while Candy was out for a quick potty and she was banging on the door to come back in, so I did not get individual photos of everyone. I will try to get the balence of the pups in the next day or two.

Candy is being a WONDERFUL mom (just like her mother Penny was)... so that is a great relief to me since she has a good sized litter. They are all nursing well and she is very careful not to sit or lay on anyone.

The lack of 'merle' pups does make me question if Fog is truly a merle as I originally thought. He does have the darker patches on one side but it seems quite odd that he didn't produce a single merle pup in the litter.

I am now going to look into having him DNA tested for color. But one thing I do now know, is that he has the potential to produce a lilac pup. A dog must carry the red gene and the dilute gene to produce a lilac ... and he has both (his mother is a dilute herself)! All very exciting for me as that is another color I have considered very unique and pretty. Knowing that Fog comes from such a wonderful strong working line, shows great promise on stock himself and now carries the color genes I like ... well, this is just a great blessing to me!!!

Needless to say, I am very excited to see this litter mature!!

Sorry everyone!!!

Things got very hectic here the last few days. My imported pups from Scotland arrived (actually came to US on Wed. and then to me on Friday). So that added to the 'mix'.

Then the exciting news of all ...... CANDY whelped her pups. After three years of trying off and on to get this girl pregnant, she whelped a beautiful (and surprising litter in looks) to my oddly marked boy FOG.

I will do what I can to update the blog on everything and everyone new!! I think I might need a better nap before I do as I was up and down all night checking on the new babies and that makes for a short night.

I promise updates soon!!!