Honey had her first progesterone test today. It showed that yes she is in heat, and no she is not ready to breed. She will be re tested in a few days.

Honey is in heat!!

Yea! It is about time. Honey is finally in heat. She is the daughter of Josie and DaVinci and was born...oh shoot...when is her birthday? (I'm out of town right now and don't access to the records). Anyway she is about 18 months old or so.
This is Honey's baby picture
Here she is at 8 weeks old.
Honey at 7 months
She will have progesterone testing next week and we will breed her with a little guy from Westwood Labradoodles in Ohio.

What should I be when I grow up

This working in a hospital is killing me. I hate it. All those sick people who are in pain and have tubes and drains and body parts sticking out of them....ooooo I feel sorry for them. They expect me to help them, but I have too many patients and not enough help and it just isn't safe. If we could just have a reasonable patient assignment life there would be good. I've been interviewing for another management position in a nursing home. That way I can take Velvet to work with me.

Mending broken fences

Oops, sorry Michelle. I had complained about our broken gate shortly after I moved in here. We couldn't let the dogs outside alone because they could slip out of the gate. Michelle fixed it a long time ago. I forgot to mention that. It seems Michelle reads this diary and she reminded me about the gate. Since she reads this does that mean I will have to be careful about how I phrase when reporting on her Chahuahua's (Peanut) favorite poo and potty spots?
Seriously, Michelle is wonderful about seeing what needs to be fixed and fixing it. I'm gonna have to get used to that.

Since when are they shy?

Hmm...I may have spoken too soon when I said Lacey and DaVinci are doing it. She was in heat and they live in the same guardian home and they did it all the time last time she cycled. I guess I just assumed they would have at it this time too. I just spoke with the guardian mom to make sure they (Lacey and DaVinci) did hook up at least once. If they did, nobody saw it. The guardian parents are away from the home during the day, so there is a chance they were discreet this time and only did it in private. I kinda doubt that. DaVinci is not shy. He will do it anytime anyplace. Lacey is so in love with DaVinci that she will do whatever it takes to please him.
Chances are she was at her peak fertile time when the guardians were on vacation and DaVinci was at the kennel and Lacey was here with us. That is o.k. really. We don't want to have too many puppies at one time.

The Puppies Are Here!

I'm so excited! Today was a great day. The bummer thing was I had to work from 5:00 a.m. (I have to get up at 3:00 a.m. - have I whined about that lately?) until 6:00 p.m. Today sometime in the afternoon Ally called to announce we have a puppy girl! I was excited but feeling helpless because I was stuck at work. She said Francie had been up all night trying to dig and nest. A little bit ago she took Francie in the bathroom and encouraged her lay down. Ally went back about 5 or 10 minutes later and was surprised to see a perfect puppy. Francie had done it all herself and hadn't even cried or complained about it. What a woman!

Michelle and I hurried on over to Lincoln Manor as soon as I got off work. On the way there, Kingston's guardian mom called to announce that he and Tinkerbelle had a successful breeding via Artificial Inemination at the vet's office today!! yeah hurray I'm sooo excited...I'm sooo going to keep one of those puppies for myself. I'm sooo excited...did I already say that?

So anyway...Francie had already had 3 puppy girls by the time we got there. We got to see 6 more be born. I loved it. This was the first time Michelle has seen pups born. She was digging it too. Francie had 6 girls and 3 boys, all apricot. I'm really surprised they are all apricot. All seem healthy too.
Can you believe I didn't take my camera? Thank goodness Michelle had her cell phone camera.

Tucker's guardian was there for the birthing party too. It was fun. We had Pizza. I love pizza. I love having puppies too. Put the two together while we are all crammed in the bathroom together and it is a fun party. I'm being serious, not sarcastic.

TinkerBelle and Kingston had a date.

Wow, do you remember TinkerBelle?She is our tiny little 17 inch tall multigen Goldendoodle. It has been about 1 1/2 years since she cycled last. I'd given up on her having another litter. Well surprise surprise, she is in heat finally. Do you remember, or know, Kingston?He is our tiny 11 pound F1B stud boy. I'm trying to get these two to breed. They had a date over the weekend, but Tinkerbelle wasn't interested in him. Today they had a date at the vet's office. Today it was Kingston that wasn't interested. Bummer. I really really want a Tink/Kingston puppy. Hopefully they will get together another day this week...and uh...really get together.

The deal with Francie

Francie and Chevy are two of my breeding dogs. They are living together in the same guardian home. Actually they are living in the Lincoln Manor home that I just moved out of. Since that place is all set up for whelping and raising puppies, and since Ally stays at home and I don't, and since they are excited about having puppies there...we all just decided Francie would have her puppies at her guardian home. I have to work 4 long days this week and it just didn't make sense for me to keep her here while I'm at work when she could be at her home with Ally. I think Velvet was dissappointed when I took Francie. She loves puppies and gets excited to see them. Francie went back to her house yesterday before Jill's party.

Jill's 6th Birthday!!

Today is JillyBean's 6th birthday. Happy birthday Jill, I love you. She had a fun birthday party complete with a rousing game of Pin the tail on the donkey.

Francie spends the night

Francie's guardian family was nervous and thinking she was going in labor. They were afraid something would go wrong...and frankly, birthing is my favorite thing to do, so I picked her up after work today and brought her home to spend the night. Did she poo in the house? Are you kidding?? of course she pood in the house.
I'm off work this weekend and hopefully we will have puppies.

goings on

Man, I'm really tired and can barely stay awake. Let me give you the real quick update:

-Kami's puppies have all found homes (one was donated to be a service dog for a boy with autism.
-Abby has a job and being trained to be a service dog.
-Francie is going to have her puppies within the week.
-Lacey is in heat and she and DaVinci are doing it.
-Tinkerbelle just started her cycle and will be bred with Kingston.
-Velvet and Peanut are buddies now (Velvet is giving Peanut a bath as we speak).
-The neighbors dogs bark a lot, but ours don't.