In case you missed it

No, I’m not keeping two puppies. 

The pet home that I was hoping would love to have Lucy never contacted me back despite multiple attempts and messages.  She was never “out of the running” as a show-quality puppy, but up until this point this home had been very good about communicating with me and they seemed wonderful, so I really wanted to be able to place a puppy with them.  I honestly don’t care that they changed their mind or got a puppy elsewhere, but I do sincerely wish that they would at least have let me know about it rather than leave me hanging for days wondering whether she had a home or not.  Regardless, that’s neither here nor there.  So once it seemed that I didn’t have a pet home waiting for her, we looked at her again for show and the consensus was that she really has quite a bit to offer.

Mandy discussed it with Keith and Jo, who own Pilot’s beautiful sister Clem, and they are going to own and show Lucy.  She flies out next week to Spokane!

If you’re keeping track, that does indeed mean that 7 of the 9 puppies are in show homes.  It feels a little crazy to say that, and I certainly never expected or planned for it!  I feel *extremely* lucky that there was such a good amount of quality in the litter AND that I had so many people (and friends) who were interested in showing one of these babies.  Now I just keep fingers and toes crossed and bite nails that they all turn out well! 

Poor puppies

"You help get mine off, then I'll help get yours off"

Nash puppy. I liked this picture because it shows his "reverse shiner", he has a ring of light reddish hairs right around his eye on the dark side.

"Maybe mama will help me..."

Lucy's ears were mostly up, but one was creasing a lot so I taped anyway.

I call this "Longing". Brady is a toy hoarder, but Lucy does her best to get him to share.

Pretty please??