Day 33
Here come the girls
followed by the boys
Date: February 14, 2012
Category » Diary Update
Day 25
Puppies eating 3 times a day giving Cassie a little reprieve. Their teeth are through and are already feeling pin like! They are having Burns Mini-bites porridge, minced chicken, eggs and evaporated milk.
Date: February 6, 2012
Day 20
Decided to try and help Cassie a little by seeing if the puppies were interested in their Burns Mini-Bites puppy food. As you can see they were, but table manners left a little to be desired!
Date: January 31, 2012
Puppies Day 18
Puppies up and about if a little unsteady especially when trying to bark. All taken to lapping evapourated milk and progressing really well.
Date: January 31, 2012
Puppies Day 14
All eyes are now open and the puppies are getting mobile and starting to interact with each other.
They had their first worming treatment today without too much fuss. It gets tougher from now on as they know what to expect.
Cassie seems to be thriving on motherhood and is eating us out of house and home. She has as much as she wants with all those tummies to fill.
Date: January 25, 2012
Puppies Day 10
Puppies continue to grow and develop. The littlest girl that we call Quill has surprised us by being the first to open her eyes.
A tight squeeze in the incubator during bedding changeover
The 4 boys
The 7 Girls
Date: January 21, 2012
Puppies day 3
Cassie is proving to be a very caring mother. She is so careful when getting in and out of the whelping box. She is managing to feed all the puppies herself and we are doing our bit by feeding her regularly and as much as she wants. She is enjoying going out into the field to see Willow and Ebby for a few minutes and checking out smells of pheasants and rabbits that may may have gone by. She soon lets us know she wants to go back and see her babies.
Also see Large Munsterlanders – Puppies 2012 page.
Date: January 14, 2012
Cassie’s pups arrive safely
Cassie had a trouble free whelping producing 11 lovely strong puppies, 7 girls, 4 boys. I am really pleased with the quality, I don’t know how Cassie fitted all 11 in her tummy, bless her. She has recovered and is proving to be a wonderful mother. See Large Munsterlanders – Puppies 2012 page.
Date: January 11, 2012
Cassie Scan Today – In pup!
Great news ! Cassie successfully scanned and confirmed in pup. All looked well. No confirmation of number of puppies but we saw at least 4.
Due date 13th January 2012
Date: December 12, 2011
Munsterlander Litter Plans
Cassie has been mated with Harry.
Puppies will be due January 13th 2012 assuming all goes well.
Date: November 11, 2011
Crumpsbrooks first RCC
Crumpsbrook Robinia (Oscar), Cassie’s litter brother, won our first Reserve Challenge Certificate at Midland Counties. Many congratulations to Holly who handles Oscar in the show ring and to Mandy his owner.
Raycris Quite Unique @ Crumpsbrook also owned by Mandy obtained her first Challenge Certificate at 7 months of age.
GO CRUMPSBROOK !
Date: October 28, 2011
Trip to the seaside
Chris and I had a wonderful trip to Harlech with our girls. Carol and Otto, Cassie’s brother, came to. The 4 dogs had a tremendous time chasing bunnies in the sand dunes and seagulls on the beach. The weather was perfect and not a soul about, heaven!
Date: September 28, 2011
Ebby’s pups pay us a visit
Ebby and Maya
Ebby (lying) and her 7mth old pups Maya and Elsa
Maya
Elsa
Maya came to stay on her holidays while her family went to a family wedding abroad. She adapted to life here at Catherton incredibly quickly, coping with hens, ducks, horses and cats. She soon became one of the pack and fitted in like she had never been away. We arranged a visit from Elsa, her sister, and it was lovely to see the 2 girls and their mum playing in the field.
Maya’s family have done us proud, she is a wonderfuil confident girl very well socialised and as you would expect very bright.
When they returned it was lovely to see how pleased Maya was to see them all again. I couldn’t help shedding a tear when she left.
Date: August 30, 2011
Cassie’s Natural Aptitude Test
The object of the Natural Aptitude Test (NAT) is to look for the natural working ability in the hunt, point and retrieve gun-dog. The NAT is divided into 7 parts; hunting, pointing, gun-shyness, swimming, retrieving, tracking and biddability. each part is judged and marked separately. We do not work Cassie but she has always shown the ability to be a good working dog so decided to brush up on her gun-dog skills and enter the NAT.
The test was arranged by the Large Munsterlander Club and held at Cowbog Farm, Kelso, Scotland.
I am very pleased to say Cassie passed all parts and gained her certificate of Natural Aptitude In The Field.
The picture below is of our friends Kate and Matt with their lovely boy Dougie who also passed his certificate.
Date: June 19, 2011