Family Picture

Here is a picture of me and my family. I am holding Eddie and Ella is in my lap- she dosn't look to happy to be getting her pictures taken.

Newsssssss

Well, its been a while since I have written about the puppies. My life at work as gotten so crazy busy that I haven't had a chance to write about the latest escapades of the puppies.

All the puppies are now with their new homes. Smoky went to the Bonnie home and has adjusted really well, the potty training is still in progress but he seems to love playing with the kids. Charlie (white) had gotten a new name, his old name was Mac but my brother decided to purchase him for his wife for Christmas. Charlie went to his new home last week and from what I here he is doing pretty good besides learning to potty train all over again in his new home. All the puppies have had 2 sets of shots and all the puppies did very well at the vets.

One additional peace if information is about little Sadie. My poor little girl, went to her new home and 4 days later died. We don't know why the vet couldn't figure it out, so it must have just been her time to go. I was really sad! I will have a tribute page just for her in my next blog.

Now, Eddie is adjusting to all of his brothers being gone and he plays with Ella all the time. They are so good together and have so much fun wrestling. We are at home for the holidays and he will love the wrapping paper and ribbons more then his new Christmas sweater. I will add pictures later.

6 Weeks Old

WOW, how time flies by fast. The puppies are 6 weeks old now and getting so big. They are big round fluffy puppies and they love to play and wrestle. Ella is weening them from eating on her and they eat puppy food as well. They love human attention and every time I come home they start whining because they want out of their cage. They love to run and run and run. They are so cute, I am glad that I am keeping one of the puppies. This week is the time for shots, and they were very good last night as I trimmed their nails. Check back later for more pic.

Mom & Puppies

Latest Update

1st pic, (Eddie & Mac in the carry case), 2nd pic ( family photo over at Lori's House), 3rd pic (Mac sleeping on my shoe), 4th pic. ( the whole family in the carrying case)

Well, this weekend was a big deal in the puppy world. First the puppies went for a road trip to go with me to visit my friend Jen. They did really well in the car and just huddled down the carrier I had them in. They had a ball playing with Jake and Daisy. Then on Saturday I took the puppies over to see my friend Lori. She has puppies too, so we had a puppy play date. Well her puppies and mine were scared of each other and it was a while before Sadie and Smokey went over to check out the other puppies. Eddie and Mac both just stayed close to me and wouldn't leave my side. When one of the dogs barked, then all my puppies would wake up and take notice- it was the funniest thing, they were scared.

They also got their first worm treatment and next week they will get their first shots. They are so active and full of live it is really fun to watch them play & growl at each other. Here's some pic from this weekend.

Video's of Ella & the Puppies

Halloween Party

I thought dressing up Ella for Halloween again this year, but the fact that she is nursing still, made it a little difficult. Ella is probably thinking, Yahoo I don't have to wear the ballerina costumer again. This year I dressed up as Minerva McGonagall from Harry Potter. Check out my picture. My family thought I looked good. I even have her wand- I loved my costume this year.

Puppies ALL SOLD

Just yesterday I sold my last puppy. It seems that this litter all my family wanted a puppy. So now I will be able to keep an eye on all the puppies and see how they've turned out. I will be breeding ELLA again next year- sorry if you wanted one, but keep checking out the blog, cause I will use this blog for my next litter as well.

Update on Puppies

Well its been a while since I have written on this blog. Over the last few weeks, I have trimmed the puppies toe nails and given them a bath. The trimming of the toe nails went off smoothly, they all did really well. But when it came time for baths, that was a different story.Smokey (black) took it well he was kinda scared of the water. Sady didn't know what to think but she took to the blow dryer just fine. Mac took to the bath ok, but then it came time to blow him dry he howled and tried to run away from the blow dryer. Eddie took to the back just fine and even didn't mind the drying. After the baths, all the puppies were still shaking so all my roommates took a puppy and help him or her get warm again. It was really fun. I weighed them last Sunday and Sady is a 1 lb 12 oz, Smokey & Eddie are 1lb 10 oz, and Mac is 1lb 6oz. They are all big and fluffy and the natural curls have popped out since their bath time. Check out the pic's.

More Pictures

Here is a picture of Sugar in a soup cup, Far right bottom. Far right top:is Mac (aka Toffee), trying to walk. The others are pictures of the puppies feeding and then there is one with Ella.

• Note: on their 2 weeks birthday all the puppies weighted 1lb .02 oz except for Mac who only weighted 1lb.
• All the boys sleep on their backs a lot and Sugar needs sleeps on her side, but she loves to bury her face in the blankets to sleep.
• Eddie and Smokey both have ticklish spots and love to cuddle.
• Sugar is the bossy one, but what do you expect since is the only girl.
• Ears haven't opened up yet.
• They will get their first toe nails clipped tonight.

New Pictures

Here is Smokey, the puppies in the Far Right top is Sugar, and far right bottom is Eddie (use to be known as chocolate). Eddie now has a white patch on his chin and his color is lighting up every day. Smoke (aka hershey) still has white paws but will probably get lighter as he gets older.

Announcement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have an Announcement-- today the puppies open their EYES! I have been waiting for so long for them to open their eyes. They look so cute! I can't wait till them start playing together instead of sleeping all the time. Iwill put up pic tomorrow.

Lunch today

I went home for lunch today and saw the cutest pictures ever. Here is Sugar sleeping on the stuffed Animal dog with Heresy laying on top of her. I just had to take a picture. Ella is doing really good at taking care of them- I can't wait for their eyes to open.

Puppy Pictures

1 2,3

4,5
Here's the puppies 1 week old. They are getting so big. The boys always cuddle up to each other to keep warm, and little Sugar is usually sleeping along. Pic 1 is Ella feeding Sugar. Pic 2 is the boys all sleeping together. Pic 3 is Hersey, (note: he is taken). Pic 4 is chocolate, & Toffee sleeping . Pic 5 is Sugar sleeping, sometimes she sleeps on her back and her foot will twitch- its really cute

New Puppies 1 Week old

Well yesterday the puppies are one week old so I took some pictures of them and weighted them to see how much they have grown. ALL 4 of them weight 9 ounces now and look so cute as their faces are taking more shape. The boys usually sleep together and they leave the girl out all the time. But yesterday I saw them all each take their own courner in the whelping box-it was so cute. The puppies are sleeping more every night-the reason I know is that they sleep in the same room as me. So I am getting more sleep per night, and they are whinning less, so they must be getting more sleep-right!

I will put up pic tomorrow

I just discovered that Ella likes to line her babies up in a row before she feels comfortable to leave them and go potty or get a drink. She is constantly licking and cleaning them. They are the cleanest pups in all the city. I've been watching her and making sure all the pups are eating evenly. She is really cut with her babies, so protective. The 3rd pic from the left is a pic during the birth of the puppies. The others are pictures from yesterday when Ella was taking care of them. I find that I make sure I always have my camera in my hand when I go to check on the pups, because they are so cut to look at.

Puppies Finally Here

Well Ella finally had her puppies. I thought for sure that she would have them at Jenn's house while I was gone on my trip to Vegas. But she didn't, she waited for me to get back-Yahoo. Ella had her puppies on Sunday Morning 9-23 at 1 am in the morning. We had been up all night off and on, then suddenly I woke up and searched for Ella to discover a baby in its sack right next to her. She didn't know what to do. I new to brake the sack, which I did but then I called Jenn and she told me how to get her to breath. Thank goodness she is the only girl. The rest of the puppies came out just fine, but Ella was kinda slow on getting the sacks off of each face so I had to help her. All together there are 3 boys and 1 girl. Their names are Boys (toffee, Hershey, Chocolate) the girl name is sugar. I named them after all of my favorite sweet stuff.

Ella's Pregnet

Here is Ella Pregnet- She looks so funny.
Ella hates having her pic taken when her belly is so big.

Baby puppies coming

I had the biggest scare last night. I took Ella's temperature and it was so low that I thought I had taken her temperature wrong. So I got out the instructions and made sure I was turning it on right- nope. So then I took her temperature again and the number was higher but it was still under a 100 so I thought we are going to have puppies soon. I originally thought this was suppose to be week 7 on her pregnancy scale, but when I started counting again- dang it I had gotten off on my days and yesterday was really day 49. This means that Tuesday 9-11 would be the beginning of the week 8 and she could have the puppies at any time. I am so freaked out, what if something goes wrong. Thank goodness Jen is helping me out, I just love the puppies but the part of waiting for Ella to have them freaks me out. lol

Just to make Ella feel better I slept on the floor with her so she wouldn't hurt her self. I am a silly mama

More to come later......

Gaining weight

Ella is getting so big. She is really close to having her babies and gaining so much weight. She had become the biggest beggar and begs food from all the roommates because our food is better then her dog food. Her only exercise is walking down to the end of the street and then she is out of breath. At night she has a hard time getting comfortable and changes positions all the time. A week ago we listened to the babies heart beats and heard 4- yahoo. Now Ella has this cute waddle when she walks because the babies have grown so much. I weighted her in the beginning she was 11 pounds, now she weights 12 pounds. We should have puppies in a few weeks - ya. Ella is a good mom and I think she will love being a mother again.

Camping

Last week I decided that I needed a break and wanted to go camping. I book the campground and made my plans. I was going to be gone for a few days so I took Ella with me. The group that I was camping with kept saying that they had never met such a quiet dog. Ella stayed with me the whole time, she didn't even bark. She loved to sniff around the trees and stayed close to the camp ground. The campground was really beautiful and it was so quite I watch the birds and saw a hummingbird. Ella had fun running around under the pine trees even though she is pregnant and so did I. She slept a lot and got very dirty, and I had to pick the pine needles out of her feet every night, but she had a ball.

Ell's Pregnant

Ell's my little shih Tzu who just turned 2 in July. Two weeks later she was in the beginning of her heat cycle. I ran to the calender and then called my friends to find out that Ella's heat starts 6 months after her first liter of puppies. So I had gotten my months mixed up and realized that if I wanted to breed her I was going to have to find someone quick. I thought of my friend Lori who has a cute little miniature poodle, Max (he's gray). The next week Max came to spend the week with Ella- YEP she got pregnant- YAHOOO. Now I am making Shih-Poo's. She sure has been getting fatter these last two weeks. But she is so cute and cuddle when she is pregnant.