Tatum & pups

All is right in a world with six more Welsh Springer Spaniels.  Tatum appears happy, proud, and maybe relieved with her role in ushering in six healthy puppies.

Photo courtesy of Susan Willingham at Smugmug.

Lakota Red

The world is a better place today as Tatum safely delivered her litter of six pups, 3 male and 3 female.

Announcement from the Royal Stufield Kennels.

Puppies

There's always time for puppies, and Aki and I took it while we talked to Tim about training Larsen.

Tim and Aki inspect a fat little puppy while Larsen watches.

One is cuter than the next.

This one's a keeper!

On the hunt.  

Puppy stakes

Some photos from a long-ago time when Larsen won his first conformation match in puppy stakes.  Aki guided Larsen to his win over contemporaries Palmer and J-Clarke.

Aki and Larsen get ready to rumble.

Penny/Palmer, Mary/J-Clarke, and Aki/Larsen give it a go.

Say "ahh"!

"Larsen, we won!"

Tatum

Susan W.'s Tatum had a litter of 8: 4 male, 4 female.  The little dog and the pups have settled in.  The adventures begin for the little dogs in a welcoming household.

 Tatum comforts two of her pups.  (photo courtesy of Susan Willingham.)

Fat puppies

Puppies & photo by Donna Wesseman.

Cage match, summer style

It's much too hot to do much horsing around, so Larsen and Caden do the next best thing by wrestling under the picnic table after dinner.

A few more

While we are at it.

Wiggling puppies

For your Tuesday morning.

Statesman visit

We enjoyed hosting our friends from Statesman Welsh Springer Spaniel last Saturday.

The purpose of the visit was to bring and help socialize a passel of 11-week-old puppies. For the past few weeks, Susan and Gary had been managing two litters -- a combined 13 dogs. One litter was from their dam, and the other from daughter Meghen's. Meghen, meanwhile, was at the Crufts dog show in England. So Susan and Gary were up to their ankles in puppies. They were overjoyed to have some of the pups stay at someone else's house.

We kept little Rysa and Boyo. Susan expects to breed Rysa at some point. Boyo will be placed (and probably get a new call name).

We took the little dogs around neighborhood and called in MaryAnne with her red & white, Chance. We finally gave them up to Susan W., for some fun over at her house with her dogs, Lars, Mazie, and Tatum. Our house was unnaturally quiet after the dogs left.

This little guy surveys the grounds like visiting royalty.




Focused photos generally involved sleeping puppies.



Ryssa and Boyo are from different litters, but you wouldn't know it as they curl up together after a day of play.