the oldies and the young ones
We have just mated Frankie and Chico and Lani is also about to be mated so I thought while we are having a break from pups I would take this time to post some pics of my dear old friends.. the likes of my old Bruce Goose who will be 14 years in Nov and Maddie who will turn 14y in Feb. and Charlie will be 10y in Jan too..They are still a big part of our life here. I love my old dogs to bits, in fact it is because of them and the bond you have it makes parting with pups so much easier. It was pretty sad last year losing Tyler and Hoons.. hard to believe its nearly a year since Hoons died. Still seems very fresh and I can’t talk about them without tears.. Brucie is starting to age now too.. for a while we didnt think he would get through the winter but he is still happy on our walks and eating well. Brucie has lost control of his bowels now and I felt awful not having him inside over winter but we set him up on a warm bed with the puppy electric blanket and he was happy. I will not let my dogs suffer as they get old.. often the hardest decision to make but you just know when that time comes
We have had some lovely visits from some of our older Tylerwild dogs too.. It was a special time to see Holly who is nearly 12 and is from Tyler and Bruce. Over the years we have had Holly back here and although a bit slower this time she hasn’t changed. She reminded me of her mum Tyler.. so here are some of the gang out and about.. and some of the visitors we have had recently.. Aya ( 7mnths from Frankie and Chico) Miro (1yr from Molly and Bill) We are still having this awful rain so it hasn’t been the incentive to have the camera out.. but I have managed a few!!!!
And of course my two young cheeky monkees I have.. Hanna who was born in April from Tui and Chico. She is a serious wee thing.. oh man shes a honey.. she s full of surprises that one. I thought she was going to be a right handful as she was so determined as a wee pup but she has been a breeze.. She was never a cuddler but she is turning into an extremely loyal and loving wee girl. Her best mate ever is Mishka who is a sable I have imported from Aussie.. Mishka is only 3wks younger but a lot smaller than Hanna and is everyones friend. It is just so nice having 2 pups the same age. I think it keeps them younger and I spend hours just watching them play. It is super cute.. more to come on these two but here is a glimpse of mayhem!!
A very wet muddy winter
This has been the worst winter I can remember. We seem to have rain rain & more rain. The mud around here has driven us mad. It is so nice to now be seeing the sunshine. Lets hope it lasts.. It has been hard for to get out with my camera so I look forward to more sun so I can again..
I have had a few computer issues over the last month.. now back on track with a newbie.. still learning the ropes!! So my final pics of Molly & Tuis pups are a little late..
I have a very handsome young man with us called Luke. He is quite like Chico in nature & a real honey. He is 6 months & looking for his forever home. See my Re-homes page for his pictures. He is super friendly and will enjoy the company of another dog as well as people!! Update-Luke has found a home..
Tuis and Mollys pups are now sell settled in their new homes & growing fast.. here are the last pics as they left..
Two wee cuties
I have two gorgeous wee pups looking for forever homes now. They love to play yet they are laid back for border collies and most importantly… love their cuddles… Their parents are Molly and Bill and they are now 8wks old and ready to go.. A chocolate boy and black girl.. Photos of the other siblings are coming..
Update- Both have found homes- thank you.
A busy year
Well nearly half way through 2016 already.. how did that happen.. Where did it go!
We have had our hands full with puppies all the way through. Right now we have Tuis 8 gorgeous wee guys who are 5wks old today & also Mollys 10 who are 3 wks old so busy busy. I have some still available & their pics are on my puppy page.. No more pups till the end of the year after this so I am really enjoying spending as much time as I can with theses guys.. I wish they wouldn’t grow so fast..
Each time I go to do an update it takes me ages to sort through the hundreds of photos I have taken to pick some out. By the time I have done that & got ready I have taken more pics & decide the pups are now looking cuter & start again.. Pups just grow too fast & every week they just get more beautiful.
We had great fun with Frankie and Shirazs litters and once again I met and got to know some wonderful families. It is good for the pups to meet so many new people (and they do) and socialize with children and all my pups get that from a very early start.. With some of the families who are close I get to see them every week and then once puppy leaves that all goes which is sad!! I do so enjoy getting the photos and updates from you all. I now have too many pups out there to keep asking.. so I appreciate the updates when they come..
During the time we had Frankies pups we found the pups to be going through a lot of water. Every time we went to see them their bowls would be empty.. we found the culprit.. little Bonnie. I have included quite a few pics but they were just so cute I had to share them all. I believe her passion for water is still strong…
Here are a few pics of Frankie and Shiraz pups leaving & their time here before they left. Shiraz had a very little pup called Rosa and I am delighted to say she is very happy and doing well in the loving care of Roberta.. thank you Roberta.. it is lovely getting your updates.
Comings and Goings
It has been an extremely busy week. Frankies litter arriving on the 13th and Chloes leaving this w/e past and Shirazs arriving on the 20th . I am trying to get through my email enquiries… but if you dont hear from me soon please get back in touch.
We have had a wonderful time with Chloe and Chicos 10 pups. Never such a huge colour range- red, black, chocolate, blue, lilac and tris. The tri markings coming out later as the pups got older.So it has been a busy week saying good bye to these guys. Some have flown to different parts to of the country and others picked up. It has been really nice getting to know so many of the new owners who have for regular visits.. Chico continued to be a wonderful dad..
It was also nice to see Nicola with her Flynn. Flynn is Sues brother and come from Tui. We introduced Flynn to the pups and his young name sake Flynn!! hmm not so keen on the pesky pups but stayed for a quick photo!!
Then last Saturday on the 13th Frankie produced her beautiful litter. Another big litter of 9 pups. 5 boys, 4 girls. She like her sister Chloe is being a great mum..
And this Saturday 20th Shiraz had her pups. It was an all nighter and a long labour for Shiraz so it was nice for me to have Karen assist as the midwife and keep us company. Karen has an older Tylerwild pup Winston and always visits the babies and wanted to experience their arrivals into the world.. Sadly we lost 2 pups but have 7 wee beauties.
Sultry Summer
Well I will have say this has been an unusual summer. Like the tropics .. very hot humid & wet..
Firstly a very Happy Birthday to my Foxy Lady. Maddie is 13 yrs today. She will dine on Highland steak & K9 Natural tripe tonight.. She will be in heaven.. She is still as excited heading out on walks today as she was as a puppy. We love our beautiful girl to bits..
Frankie and Shiraz are now looking uncomfortable and we are really looking forward to the arrival of their pups in the next 2 weeks. This is Frankies first litter and we wonder how many pups she will have. Chloe surprised us with 10 .. and Frankie is looking pretty big.. watch this space!!
My poor wee pups at the 4-5wk stage found the humidity really unpleasant… it was when mothers milk was gold & yet on a hot day a glass of hot milk would be furthermost from all of our minds so the wee fellows would drink & then cry.. Poor little things. They most certainly have overcome that now..
Chloe has been a fantastic mother. We had a house people of staying in the first 2 weeks so things were a bit unsettled for a first time mum .. However she has showed off her babies to all our visitors with so much pride.. she is super cute. All the pups have great homes to go to and we have enjoyed getting to know many of the new families already. Of course there is no show without Dad Chico either.. never one to turn down a cuddle.. and he is so lovely with the pups..
Here are just a few of the pics Id like to share.. A big Thank you to Grace who lives in Dunedin and has been up here in Tauranga working, for making the effort to come & visit her little girl Nevina most weeks. Its nice for me to know Nevina is going to a lovely Mum so far away..
It was lovely to meet Jan and Dick who traveled from Wellington to meet a young re home pup we had here called Joss. Thanks so much for taking good care of her.. we enjoyed some fine wine that evening to celebrate too.. thank you Dick!! Also young Bear is now living with our Auckland family.. looks like he has made himself at home.
Happy New year 2016
2015 ended on a happy note with Chloe delivering 10 beautiful pups on the Sunday after Xmas. She hadn’t looked that big so 10 pups were quite a surprise. We had a house full of people staying so we had to take the whelping box upstairs to our bedroom to give Chloe some quiet time. Once the first pup had arrived & she settled down she was quite happy for the family to come & watch the other pups arrive. She did really well & had all the pups easily. A lovely range of colours and she is settling down and being a great mum. We now have a house full of teenagers staying so Chloe has had eyes on her and her babies continually.. I am trying to get through my email enquiries now but please contact me if you are after a pup.
Chloe and babes
It was lovely to meet Brie who is Lanis sister when Sharon and Mark came to collect Piper.
We had Skye and Bing for longer which was nice. Bing would often get in our fish pond so we were very surprised to find a frog in there one day!!
The Hoons RIP age 15yrs
Two weeks ago I would not have believed I would be writing this. This morning at 10am we lost our dearly beloved Hoons (Jasper). I feel almost at a complete loss to even know where to start.
15 years ago today I would have been sitting with his mother Jessie and her week old pups so that she would stay and feed them. I was their ‘other’ mother from the day they were born. I have an album of photos taken each week as Jasper and Tyler were growing up in Invercargill.
We named this little man Jasper but it didn’t take long for his personality to come through and he got called the Hoons and he has been my Hooney man ever since. He didn’t get called Jasper very often although he did know both his names!!
Hoons was one in a million. Personality plus.. He was always happy.. he would have a smile on his face & life was good. He was our clown and would always make us smile with his antics. No matter how naughty he was he would make you smile and you just couldn’t get angry with him. I remember the day we left Invers to move North.. Sambo, Jessie, Tyler & Hoons -3months old (we had lost our dear old cat by then) but we also bought up with us tweetie the canary & our long lasting goldfish. So there we were.. busy packing the house & emptying the fridge etc,, Hoons decides to break in & eat a jar of relish.. first night away he has the runs… GREAT. staying with friends so I am up every hour with him.. Next day we get to Queenstown and stay with Gregs sister… what does Hoons find.. a plum tree.. same result!!!! Then to make things worse.. the dogs had been sleeping in their conservatory next to our room and found a loose thread in the carpet in the MIDDLE of the room … well.. a good meter round bear patch of carpet I found the next morning!! try explaining that!! remembering at this stage Hoons is only 3 months old.. just mischief with a capital M.
We arrived in the Bay and lived in Papamoa for 6 months while we got ourselves sorted. Hoons there developed the love of kids on bikes. He would run the fence line every time wheels went past. One time in his excitement he landed over the fence beside a little boy on a skateboard. I don’t know who got more of a fright.. Hoons looked back as if to say.. how the hell did I get here …OHOH..that was just so typical of him.
We started to hear these thumps on the side of the house.. Tweetie’s mirror was flashing its reflections.. guess who started chasing them.. that is when the shadow chasing started!! Any night we had visitors over Hoons would be outside chasing our reflections and taking great hunks of grass out!! We decided to move the goldfish into our business premise one day but by the time we got there.. Hoons had managed to get them all on the back seat.. very pleased with himself.. we had moved them from Auckland originally!!!
The dogs had come from the open empty beaches of Invercargill where they could just run freely and to arrive at Papamoa they knew nothing different, Tyler & Hoons would take off down the beach after gulls & waves & disappear into the distance. I would hold my breathe they would come back.
My sisters place in Ohope had always been one of our favourite destinations with Sambo back in the days of Auckland & 2 dogs.. So one time we visited them with the extra 2 pups. Hoons went missing.. they lived on the harbour & no fences.. stressful ? .. ahh yep.. a tad.. we had everyone out calling for him. Couldn’t believe he could get lost so had the panic someone had taken him.. 2 hours later & absolutely distraught I just happened to look up into the neighbours house.. they were out.. In the corner bedroom.. on the bed.. looking out the window… guess who!! grrr… he had gone up through their gge in the cat door & of course everything else was locked!! “Here I am Mum”
I took Tyler & Hoons to a ‘dog show’ with some friends. It was for newcomers and it was the first time I have ever been to one. Hoons was was SO excited and we had literally rocked up off the beach. Some people were blow waving their dogs.. Hoons & I went round the ring but he was way too excited to do that casually…. The judge made us go & sit in the corner.. well that happened to have more people & dogs so that didn’t calm him down… She then told me “That dog will break your heart if you don’t control him” I never went back to another…
We moved out here to Katikati after that and Hoons has lived what you could only describe as probably the best life ever for a dog.. he was never sent to kennels.. he sleeps by our side.. he has never worn a collar even. He has loved the animals we have had here. He would never hurt them but just watch. Tyler and Hoons had a very deep bond and were so close. They would play for hours running the hills chasing swallows and because of their bond I still endorse litter mates to families. It was only in the last year of Tylers life they didnt get on..that I found sad.
Hoons would take food from my mouth and always be so gentle. It stopped when the competition got too great and he bit my lip one time.
He loved going in the car and would always go with Greg on his trips to Auckland and he made very close bonds with Neo and family. That became his other home.. Hoons was a great singer and would have Greg in hysterics as he imitated the sirens when they went past..
As a young pup if anything startled him he would come and sit on my feet. Super cute and even as an old dog he would do that. ‘Mum will protect me’. He didn’t have many fears..sadly for me!!
He loved the girls and was a big romantic. I could never pick when the girls would have their pups if Hoons had mated them as he would be happy to mate them the entire time they were in season.. Any visiting ladies he would happily oblige there & then & off they would go.. he certainly didn’t muck around. Although Hoons has been retired for some 5 years now he has left a huge legacy of children and I know some have the same happy hilarious characteristics.
He is a dog you would always be proud to own, one that is a great soul mate, to make the bad times seem fun. In his later years he got grumpy. Its a grumpy I am going to so miss. It wasn’t so many weeks ago that Hoons was still at the front of our walks. It is almost as if he kept the pace. Often I would never see him till the end but he would go racing past me in earlier days so he must have doing circles. We had this quiet understanding to meet back at the top of the hill before we went back home.
Last Tuesday he turned 15 years old.. he just wasnt himself and the next day I took him to the vet … hoping maybe man flu or tooth ache. But his sense of balance wasn’t right, I knew it wasn’t right.. I went to take a photo of him on his birthday but I didnt. I didn’t want to remember him looking so sad.. 5 years ago my mother had a stroke and is confined to a wheel chair. When I visit her now I see sad vague eyes & nobody home. That is what Hoons looked like. He struggled to get get up or sit down & all in a week. He was getting old and slowing but he was still leading our walks 2 weeks ago. This has come as quite a shock. so fast… He could not have asked for a happier life.
The sadness is overwhelming and the reality of him not being here hasn’t even started to sink in. The lady that told me he would break my heart was right.. but it took 15 years.
He has joined the plot with his mother Jessie, sister Tyler & niece Moet around our tree on the front lawn. Hoons will always be in our hearts. A very special dog.. xx I share some photos over the years..
Puppy paradise
Well it has been the most amazing few months for us here. What with Molly’s 10 pups and then 5wks later Lani’s 7 followed 4 days later with Sue’s 7 pups… at one stage we had 24 pups here.. Yep puppy paradise. Super busy but the sort of busy I think most people would enjoy.. well only be those crazies who don’t have the doggy passion that wouldnt!!
Molly & Bills pups were just fantastic little guys. I have taken so many hundreds of photos and sent them to puppy owners I sort of ran out of time and energy to do this.. sorry .. as I have had a few emails.. where are the puppy pics?!! The time I have them goes way too fast and to be honest I prefer being with them than on the computer!! We had a huge number of visitors and it was fantastic how so many of the new families made the effort to visit. The pups would get so excited when people arrived but sometimes for little people they were a bit much!! (as you will see!!)
They have all left home now and here are are some of the new homes they have gone to.. It is way too hard for me to choose which photos to put up but I have chosen a few.. Delta and Bella went to Chch and Jasper to Wgtn so sadly I havent met their families..
Right so those guys now gone.. we also had a lovely time with a young man we had to stay. Rudy who is from Charlie and Hoons. He handled it extremely well considering he comes from a one dog family and arrived here to be greeted by some pretty protective new mums with pups!! Rudy was here for a few weeks while his mum and dad were on holiday.. as you will see I think he coped!! My guys also caught a hare out on one of our walks while Rudy was here which was amazing … but also I happened to have my camera with my at the time.. they must have cornered it as they are way too fast for my guys. I was in shock as in all the years we have lived here this is a first.. I took it home and Greg skinned & gutted it and they had it for tea..
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- Rudy in action
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- got a stick
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- Rudy
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- making himself at home!
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- off we go
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- the hare catch
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- ohh its getting away
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- we’ve all got it
And now we have Lani and Sues stunning pups. They are all in together and having a ball. Chico has been a very doting dad too. Watching him having the kids clamber over him is just the neatest..Every evening Greg and I enjoy our quiet catch up of the day and relax with a drink and talk to the pups.. I hate my photo being taken but .. well this time I got nabbed but what fabulous company to be nabbed in!!Its a great time. I will be sad when they all go and its not too long now. Trip to the vet next week and then they fly the coup 2 weeks later… If only you could keep them all!!!
Happy & sad news- RIP Neo
Lani has had her puppies and check the puppy page for a quick update ..
You know there are 2 things I don’t enjoy about having dogs. One is going away & leaving them & the other is them dying. Life can be so unfair at times. Here I am surrounded by beautiful dogs & puppies & yet I have tears writing this update.. Neo died today. . son of Tyler and Bruce..he was our families dog.. & today I share tears.. with Maia Casta Leonie and Kieron.
Those two little girls have spent years coming here and playing with nearly every litter we had and when Maia turned 10yrs old she was given a dog toy for her birthday… 8wks later Neo .. He has come back with them every visit and every holiday they have he has with us.. a very special man who we will all miss hugely. Over the last few years Hoons has been his regular visitor and play mate and it was sad on their last visit only 2 weeks ago things had changed.. I have gone through a few of my photos and would like to share some I have taken when Neo was little and his visits. He will have more happy times in that doggy place with his mum Tyler who we lost not so many months ago.. Neo was too young.. tragic.. these photos are from Neo to you with love xx…
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