Dogs

Here are just a couple quick pictures of Kolton and his cousins playing the Wii.  We've been able to go over to their house twice recently for them to play and they've loved playing together.  Gotta love the summer! 

 So, for the past 2 1/2 months our lives have revolved around puppies.  It really is SO much work to take care of them, but this litter was most definitely my favorite litter to take care of.  It was way easier with only 8 puppies (instead of 12-14) and then also only having one adult dog instead of 4.  We never once had to bottle feed a single puppy! It was great! They all always gained weight! Usually on the first day they'll lose weight (just like newborns) but with this litter none of them did! It was awesome! So much less stress involved with this litter because of that.  Every puppy could eat all at the same time if they wanted to.  We had 6 of them sold by the time they were 5 weeks old and then we sold the last 2 before they were 9 weeks old.  We had 4 of them fly to other states (one in Washington, one in Pennsylvania, one is Mississippi, one in Colorado).  We then had one go to Amarillo, TX.  Then we had one up at Tinker AFB, one in Choctaw, OK, and one in Moore, OK.  

We try and take pictures of the puppies every 1-2 weeks as they are growing up.  It is SO hard to get pictures of them! It seriously takes me HOURS to get 2 or 3 good pictures of each puppy.  Its just crazy! 

 Purple was my favorite puppy, personality wise.  Oddly enough, she was one of the last two to sell.  She actually ended up going to one of my friends from work, so it turned out great! 

 Like I said before, we went on July 13th to go look at Xara up in Stillwater.  We brought a dvd player for Kolton to watch on our way so he wouldn't get so bored.  

 He noticed I was taking a picture so he had to pull a funny face.  :) He kept talking really loud to us since he had the headphones on.  It was funny! 

The puppies loved playing with him! Xara still favors him over us! 

 She's so droopy!! Look at all those wrinkles! :)

 At first Missy was really jealous so we had to make sure and give her extra love and attention.  Every time we'd pet Xara Missy would come and try and squeeze her head in between and just look at you like "aren't you going to pet me?" Now, though, she's fine and doesn't really seem to care who gets what and when.  Missy seriously is the sweetest dog! We hope Xara learns from her.  She's been a tiring puppy to say the least! :) If she doesn't want to be in her kennel she will bark/whine for hours.  So, night time is kind of hard.  Hopefully she grows out of it sooner than later! :) She is sweet, though, and we do like having her as part of our family.