And a few more pics just because ..

...they're sooo cute.

Some puppy pics for Monday

No I don't know what she's doing either


but she seems to think it's a good game


I just don't know why they have to sit on my head!


Spending time with Mummy


Helping with the newspaper

The start of the adventure

The puppies are out. After a couple of days preparing the garden, the puppies had their first look at the big wide world with Dizzy and Nutty as chaperones!

Gavin jumping Bea

Here is a bit of video of Gavin jumping (I wasn't allowed to put the one of him falling off on, but don't worry, it'll be up later when he's not looking over my shoulder!)

Getting to grips with solid food!

From this stage on it just gets messier and messier!

Back in time...

Thanks to Hannah, Bea's last owner, this is Bea aged nothing!

Everything is foals and puppies at the moment.

We have also found out that Bea has a full sister who has started eventing last year and is now competing at Novice. Click the picture for more...

It's not just puppies...

Heathers mare, Stella, has had a foal by Faberge, this should turn out to be one hell of a horse.

This is still less than 24 hours old.

Out into the big(er) world

Having constructed the play pen this evening, we opened the door to the puppy box and out they popped. Very scary , little brave Rosie then Green Genie were the first out much to the frustration of Blue who couldn't quite muster up the courage until pushed by Scarlet!
More photos here....

Eyes open and walking

Now we are walking - of a sort, we need to sleep even more. At least the feeds are getting further apart but they are sucking more and more.

See more photos here

Much a do about nothing

Our next door Neighbours at Stratfield Saye hosted a production of Shakespeare's Much a do About Nothing. What a fabulous evening in a quintessentially English setting.

This was the first time away from the puppies and they managed without us! ..... damn, I mentioned the puppies.

Week Two

So this week we'll mostly be eating, sleeping, then maybe a bit of rolling around....

Double their weight in a week...

They have exceeded what they should have been doing and have easily doubled their birth weigh in a week, check this out.... http://idisk.mac.com/gavinb/Public/puppychart.htm

Thursday's Puppy Watch

Not much exciting happened yesterday, just more eating, sleeping and growing - Green spot is the biggest at 910g (over double his birth weight!) and will probably be first to hit the 1kg mark.

From today though we wait with baited breath for eyes to open, who will be first to see the big wide world?


Breakfast in the sunshine








Enough for me...








Snoozing....

The morning after....

That was a good party








Green spot has eaten to much!








The girls are getting their beauty sleep








Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!








Red spot gets a wash








Before settling into prime spot

Taking it easy......

Bit of a party till 3am this morning, followed by a huge breakfast, think I'll sleep for a while now....

Blue Spot having breakfast

Ahh... adorable or just wrinkly? 4 days old and growing fast, they should be double their birth weight by the end of the week and we're hoping to double our sleeping hours by the end of the week too.

All getting some sleep

After 72 hours out in the big wide world, the puppies seem to be relaxing into their surroundings, as does their mother. Yesterday afternoon was spent soundly asleep, Nutty even managing to adopt her favourite position... on her back with her legs in the air!

Even with all the afternoon snoozing they all kept quiet enough to allow George and I get a real 5 hours sleep, oh that felt good. Those poor people that have real babies....

They are all developing their own little personalities - mummies boy (Green Spot), tom boy (Red spot), the crinklie twins (Pinkand Gold spot), and exploring boy (Blue boy).

Nutty has had puppies

5 puppies, by caesarean on Friday evening. more to follow….. click here

After 18hours in labour and getting very uncomfortable, the fantastic Hartney Whitney vets performed a caesarean From the size of Nutty, the vet was expecting to remove 10 puppies... no just 5 chocky monsters, 2 boys and 3 girls!

All returned home on Friday evening to be nursed through the the night by George and Diane as I was away with work on the Solent! Diane you are a star, above and beyond the call of duty! Sleep was counted in minuted rather than hours.

Last night was my turn to sleep on the kitchen floor, helping the feeding every hour, luckily Nutty was starting to work out that she was responsible for the little horrors, when they cry, you feed. The stitches from the Cesarean are not helping her rolling on to her side to let them feed, but she is finding her own technique.

Spare a thought for Dizzy who is might confused by the whole invasion!