Laureate Shelties Blog
A bit of this, a bit of that...with a lot of free spirits.
This is the sister to "Twiggy"...so also by BPIS Ch Shelhaven Outback x Laureate Alinea (Juno) and co-bred with Pennylynn Woodruff. She isn't as wild and crazy as her sister and prefers to take things at her own speed. In the few days she has been here I've noticed she likes to be behind things (my legs) and underneath cover such as a crate or a chair.
So when I took her outside for the first time by herself I wasn't surprised when she ran for the bushes for cover (or so I thought).
The funny thing was, she didn't seem afraid or concerned. She was out to kill that juniper bush!
I didn't put her there...she jumped in! She was having a ball.
She is darling and today she got her name..."Juniper".
I went to Pennylynn's last night to pick up our Juno puppies. We brought home the two girls in the litter and will be growing out this little girl we've named "Twiggy". She is outgoing and bold and had a busy morning playing with the older puppies and then upstairs with me, LuAnne and Foo in the kitchen. The weather was beautiful today so I decided it was time for a taste of the great outdoors!
And taste she did. She tasted the water in the puddle...
She tasted the snow (yucky)
Nommed her foot
Sat for a second
What's this?
Posing briefly
Found some spruce needles! We are going to have fun with this adventurous girl...
It was snowing and blowing all day so I took the opportunity to snap some photos of the Cocoa pups. Quite a lot of growing and change has happened since the last blog post and even the little hand reared puppy was finally ready to make his debut.
The white face girl loves playing in the tunnel, but gets even more enjoyment with the toggles.
Looking very innocent!
The small girl on the left and the narrow blaze girl. They are very nicely put together and have sweet faces...all three will be grown on as show prospects.
Here is the male in the litter that was hand raised. He has been making up for his slow start and his growth has really started to accelerate.
In our first litter, born January 25, 1989 was a puppy with a big white face blaze. I remember going through the magazines trying to find pictures of other Shelties that had lots of white on the face to see what it would look like on an adult. I came across a female in one of the magazines that was called Ch Istari Despite The White. A clever name that said it all...despite the white the quality is there. It isn't everyone's cup of tea, but markings shouldn't matter if the individual has excellence. The ones we've kept over the years or have sold to others have gone on to prove the point. So now we'll watch and wait to see if Cocoa's puppy will factor into our breeding program in the future.
Above is pictured MBIS/MBISS Am/Can Ch Laureate Starlight Express (Sparkle) at 3 weeks of age. Next to her is a picture we took this morning of Cocoa's girl at three weeks...they are similar but different. She might look more like Ch Laureate Vanilla Sky than Sparkle, but time will tell.
This is how Sparkle looked at 6 years old...
Top left is Ch Laureate Savanna White ROMC (owned by Karen and Bob Henley) and underneath and the baby photos are her daughter, Ch Laureate Vanilla Sky. Two more beauties 'despite the white' face markings.
While we were on holiday our good friend Diane whelped our Inception x Jivara litter. There are three girls (pictured) and a male who will wait until he is bigger before he makes his debut.
Diane nicknamed the girls "the three little pigs" I like to think because they are fat and healthy and not because they have pink noses.
All that eating makes you tired!
Nap time...
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