Have a great Holiday week.
Gambler
Glory
Nellie
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Happy 5th Birthday to Nellie’s First Litter
The year of 2007 I did all kinds of research on who would be Nellie’s first boyfriend. After all that research I had decided to use a stud dog from out west. Washington to be exact. His name is HRCH CH INTL CH* Nordom’s Apache Rebel MH WDQ.
“Rebel” is a dark brown handsome fellow with many great accomplishments. Besides passing 22 Master Hunter tests in a row, he has qualified for Master Nationals the last 4 years with becoming a Master National finalist in 2006. He has also passed 9 UKC Finished tests in a row. He is a reliable dog in competition and a consistent finisher. While being fast, stylish and an excellent marker he will also run great lines on his blinds. He has proven himself in the field as well as in the Conformation ring by receiving his American and International show titles with a group placement when his owner was showing him to his IABCA International Show title. When Rebel isn’t training or competing he is also out hunting upland birds and waterfowl.
This was a vaginal AI done at Veterinary Village in Lomira, WI. Now the wait was on. Nellie’s due date was the week of Christmas that year. This was my first breeding hence my first litter, so it was all new to me. Even know I am a Veterinary Technician and have the knowledge, I didn’t have the experience. Nellie did super during her whole pregnancy, she was able to go hunting with us, play with Norman and go where ever we went.
Just after midnight the day of Christmas Nellie went into labor and delivered 7 beautiful little puppies. She had 2 boys and 5 girls. All were the same color and around the same size.
Nellie’s puppies birth day.
Jessie, Pearl, LuLu, Savannah, Huck, Kessler, Nelly
One puppy went to Washington, one went to Ohio, one went to Idaho, two went to Minnesota, one went to Colorado and one stayed in Wisconsin. The puppy that went to Minnesota we get to hunt with each year in Canada, our relationship has turned into a really nice friendship. Pearl has turned out to be a really nice hunter and fun to be around. We still get to see Savannah in Wisconsin, she is fun loving and loves to play with her tennis ball. Jessie in Ohio has her Therapy Dog International dog title and does therapy work with Hospice patients.
Happy 5th Birthday to Jessie, Pearl, LuLu, Savannah, Huck, Kessler and Nelly. May you have many more Birthdays to come.
The first of the Christmas presents.
The Sand Spring gang loves Christmas presents, they were so happy that Kathy brought them presents when she came over to make tasty treats.
Norman being the oldest is the master present opener. Gambler isn’t to far behind him. Glory and Nellie are lady like and take their time while Norman and Gambler rip theirs open. Once open then Gambler goes around and steals all the toys and puts them in a pile and guards them, he then will take one and start to wreck it. At that time the toys all get gathered up and put up do he doesn’t wreck them all.
Look at our presents we got.
Opening the presents.
Still opening.
Checking out the presents.
Stealing the presents.
Glory enjoying her present.
The destruction starts.
Norman loves Christmas.
And there goes the eye.
Sand Spring Christmas Pictures
Yesterday you saw the Sand Spring gang’s Christmas blooper pictures. Today you get to see the ones that turned out. We had a fun day taking pictures and I didn’t think we were going to get any that turned out but we did. Enjoy
Gambler and Nellie.
Gambler the reindeer.
Nellie.
Glory and Momma Nellie.
Gambler being Santa.
Christmas Picture Bloopers
This past weekend when my friend Kathy was over to help make Tasty Doggie Treats she brought the pooches some really cool Christmas bandanna’s so we had to take Christmas pictures of course. Well here are the bloopers, we did manage to get a couple good ones after all the bloopers.
I want the treats!
Glory’s blind.
Is that a bug on the floor?
Kathy helping get the gang ready.
I think I see Santa coming down the chimney.
Glory you need to keep your hat on.
I don’t want to wear this hat.
Really! No Hat!
Nellie saids this hat is heavy.
Hi Mom I love you as Mrs. Claus.
Mom you have chimney ash on you.
Gambler says “you all sit here”.
Where’s Norman?
I’m outta here!
Trying to get 4 Chesapeakes to sit for a picture is a challenge. We managed to get it done so stay tuned for the GOOD pictures.
Have a great day!