Allyn Portuguese Water Dogs by the Blindchick: Mother's Day

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers - even mothers of dogs. Jill is celebrating by being a really good dam. That's how she spends all of her days with puppies.

Sammie the Doodlebug is back home and begging to help with the puppies. So far, Jill hasn't taken her up on it but Sammie remains hopeful. Maybe she can help when they are running around with little needle teeth.

They all needed their toenails trimmed. I only did the nails on the front feet this time, though. I was closely supervised by Jill and Sammie. They didn't tell me what they thought of the job I did, obviously they aren't clicker trainers.

Tonight we will start Early Neurological Stimulation or Puppy Yoga. I'll be taking care of that before I call it a day. I expect resigned cooperation from the puppies and vigilant supervision from Jill.

Now for the results of todays weight watchers meeting: They still did some squiming but we got good readings on each puppy. All 3 boys now weigh over a pound each. The girls say that it's not nice to tell a lady's weight but I'm going to do that anyway. Pink and Green are closing in on a pound at 15.8 ounces each and the Purple pup is now 13.4 ounces. She's a determined eater - one of the few pictures I have on the Picasa page at this point is her sleeping (with another puppy on top of her) with the nipple still in her mouth.

They are noisy little eaters, I guess Jill doesn't start teaching table manners until later. I can't tell whether they are looking for a spot or just sucking really hard but like all puppy sounds, it's very sweet. Haven't smelled any puppy breath yet but I haven't checked vey closely yet. They might latch on to the end of my nose ;)

I may be closing in on the theme for the litter names. I like them to be phrases work with our kennel name - we pronounce the Allyn as All In. (For example, Sammie's registered name is Allyn the Drive.) Anyway I think we may use names that have Treat, Trick or Magic in them. I have a while to make the final decision since we don't have the litter registration yet. ;-)

Time for puppy yoga!

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Visitation Protocol

I've been sending this/variations of this to people about puppy visits so I thought it might be useful information for visitors and potential owners (or entertainment for people to laugh at the crazy dog lady)

Puppies are now ready for visitors and they especially need to meet children (and men.) Just not on a day/in clothes you've worn to a shelter/dog park/around a sick dog.

If you want to prepare them for 'the rules' or our procedure:

We take off shoes (don't wear white socks because the rubber floor, even when freshly steamed can discolor white socks);

wash hands thoroughly (sing the abc song twice while we rub the soap between our hands vigorously) and

put on a smock (an old men's shirt I keep for such purposes).

Then we come quietly out into the dog room and greet the big dogs (especially the Mama so she doesn't feel like she needs to protect the babies) before we go over to see the puppies.

The puppies are in a play area and we go carefully in and sit down to let puppies come to us or an adult hand them to you. You can make lots of noise with your voice - as long as it doesn't look like it worries the mama dog (probably wait until after you've been here for a little while).

When you are ready to get out, tell us and an adult will help you (don't want to trip over a puppy and hurt you or it). They have some neat toys that you can help show them but remember they are BABIES so they are fragile (careful, quiet hands and feet but we will want you to make some loud, funny, or silly noises for them eventually.)

You might want to remind them I can't see so they need to use words (I can't hear them shake or nod their head),

Thanks!

Who’s Who

Canine
Cast of Characters:

Phoebe:

Ch Allyn her BEguiling BEijo, RA, BCAT, WWDX

Mama to the puppies. She was the

pink puppy from Bela’s litter with Mojo.

Officially lives with dog Cindi but she’s stayed with Crisit a lot first

while Bela healed from her injury; then to keep SDB company after Jack went to the Bridge and then she helping with Caly’s

puppies (she was often more fascinated by them than their Mama at times)

AKA:

FauxB, PhoebePhoo; Hellgirl, Nanny McPhoebe, MamaP, The PhoenoMama

Patton: the originally intended sire of the litter.

DejaView:

Allyn Second Sight, CGC Service Dog Guide

“It’s complicated” Apparently, sire of these puppies. Crisit’s service dog guide and the puppy she kept from the last litter (the LOTR litter between Jack and Caly he was the yellow collar AKA Strata.) He lives with Cristi and is her Guide now. He’s learning to play some dog performance and conformation but first trained for his Real Job and then the Pandemic happened. He and Phoebe are very close - when she doesn’t have puppies they lie so close together it’s hard to tell which is which.

AKA: DejaView, little Dude , Handsome, NotSo Little Dude and the black one

Trek:

Ch Allyn Warp Speed 7…Engage RN, WWD, CGC, TKI, etc. etc.

‘it’s complicated’ Potential sire - ruled out by DNA to these puppies (full sibling to Caly and Armada). He was the curly black boy (T2J) from

SammieDoodlebug’s Numbers litter.

Littermate to Tootsie

Lives with SDB’s Jeremy, Colleen, and Armada

AKA: TrekkieWoo, the curly black one

Bela

(MiraBela): Ch Allyn the Incantation, BN, RA, WWD. Grandmother to this litter

Bela is a brown girl from our last litter with Jill. She had the green collar.

Co-owned with Dog Cindi. Lives with Cindi and the Ice Cream Truck (Pete) Bela is quite the diva these days, we’re not sure what she’s going to think about sharing her house with ANOTHER puppy ;-)

AKA:

BelaBoo, B, Beelah, BooBaby, Miss B, Aunt B, BabyB

Caly

(Calypso): CH Allyn the CaTENation, RN, WWD Grandmother to this litter

She is the dam of DejaView and the daughter of SammieDoodlebug and Phoebe’s first cousin. She was the red collar (Turtle) from SammieDoodlebug's Ten litter.

Lives with LeAnne, she was my timeshare puppy.

AKA:

CalySue, Calygator, the White Footed One, The Chosen One, MaterGator, the black one

SammieDoodlebug:

Ch Allyn the Drive, BN, RN, WWD

SammieDoodlebug

is the Great aunt and Great Granddam to this litter. She’s

littermate to dog Cindi’s Indy; half sister to Bela; mother of Caly; Aunt to Phoebe (the mother of this litter); Granddam to Deja

AKA: GrammieSammie, SDB, SammieDoo, Doodlebug, the Bug, BuggyBoo, Scooch, Doodle, Sammie the Tongue, Baby Bug, SammieMiami, the black one

Jill:

Ch Tesouro’s Black Magic, RN

Jill was the mother/grandmother/great grandmother of everybody but Jack. She’s the Great Grandmother and Great Great Grandmother to these puppies. She went to the Bridge 06/02/15

AKA: JillyPooh, JillyBean, the Bean, BeabieBaby, the Mama (them the Mama’s Mama), the Queen, JillytheBull, the black one

Jack:

Ch Tesouro’s BlackJack at Yr Svc, CD, RN, NAJ, CWD, SROM

Jack was my first PWD and Service Dog –Guide.

Jack is the grandsire of these puppies and the sire of our Lord of the Rings litter with Caly

AKA: Jackaroo, Roo, Mister Man, Jackson, Sir Barksalot, and Bestest dog in the Whole Wide World and the black one

The girls (and sometimes the MSU) would tell you it’s all about Jack

Jack went to the Rainbow Bridge 06/28/17.

Indy:

Ch Allyn All Perfection to a Tee, CD, RA, WWD

Indy was the firstborn in our first litter and littermate to SammieDoodlebug. He lived with dog Cindi, Bela and Phoebe. Indy crossed the Rainbow Bridge in January, 2020

Aka: IndyBlue, Hellboy, Handsome, the black one

Armada:

Ch Allyn Tyme to BatTEN Down the Hatches, RA. ThDN. CGCA, TKI, etc, etc

Great Uncle (distant if he has his say) to these

puppies (littermate to Caly), He was the brown boy with the tan collar (Dyson) from SammieDoodlebug's Ten litter but has LOVED Phoebe for years so he is trying to get over his heartbreak at not being the sire

Lives with Colleen, SDB’s Jeremy, Trek and Kiely

AKA: Armadason, Armadallo; LBD

Tootsie:

Allyn Queen of Hearts Makes 21, RA, AJP, NFP, CGC, TKI CWDX Grand Aunt to this litter

Lives with Debbie and Scott in area where we make, ultrasound, and whelp the puppies.

AND THE PUPPIES:

FauxReal ; red collar.. Wavy black girl with white on chest/tummy and toes

Faux (Fur) Aidian: Wavy brown boy with orange collar

Faux Pearls: Wavy brown girl with small white on chest. Yellow collar

Infaux: wavy Black boy with white on his chest. Green collar

FauxSure/FauxSho” wavy brown girl with small white markings Teal Blue Collar

Fauxcus: wavy Black boy with white on chest Indigo Blue Collar

FauxMo: wavy Black boy with tiny white spot on chest; Purple collar

(I realized after we had ‘randomly’ assigned collar colors that we had basically done the spectrum so now I keep their names in that order because I must)

Human Cast of Characters:

MSU: Male Spousal Unit, husband of Crisit

AKA: the Bus Driver, Bruce

The Aunts (and Grandma’s now too):

Dog Cindi: Friend, training partner, co-owner of Indy. Bela, and Phoebe

AKA: The guide bitch (hey we are dog people, it’s not a bad word. That’s what she does when we are competing and the dog can’t guide.)

LeAnne: Caly's mama and co-owner; whelper helper, spreadsheet and graph maker.

Colleen: Armada and Trek’s mommy and co-owner, Village Photographer

Debbie:

Tootsie’s mama, keeps us entertained while we hang out in Northern Ohio doing repro stuff. Married to the Human Great

Scott (of the Bakery, mmmm)

The Uncles:

Jeremy:

Trek and Armada’s daddy, SDB firmly believes he belongs to HER (he is one of her favorite people)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mother's Day

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