Japps recovering

Japp is now home. He has been home for three days and already unwrapped his bandaid once so we had to go back to the hospital once and fix it. We will go back to the hospital tomorrow and on Saturday to put new bandage on him. But other than that he is doing great.

We also got the mobilehome for me :) Hopefully I will be able to move in to it in the end of next week! The water and electricity is almost hooked up so it isn't that much left to do :)

We had a horrible weather today with really dark clouds...

The horses were really wet when I took them in this afternoon. But the rain has passed now and when I am writing this the sun actually gets through...

I will try to take some pictures of the cocker spaniel puppies! They are doing great. They are really big! The filly, Sugarsmile DW is also doing really good! It has been so much work lately so I haven't got the time to take so many pictures as I wanted too!

Take care!

Japp still at hospital

Japp is still at the Van Zandt Animal Clinic and he will stay there until Monday. He needs a lot of rest and his bandage on his head needs to be there until Monday. That makes it easier for both us and Japp. I went over and visited him and he is doing pretty good. When I entered the clinic I was wearing a pair of bunny ears sympathizing to my dog. They had a good laugh at me :) Japp thought I just was embarising both him and me... :) I hope that I can go and visit him tomorrow again...

Japp injured

To have many dogs together as we do right now is a challenge. How or why it happened is questions we probably never get the answer on but in some way any of the dogs got hold of Japps ear and sliced it in three. Luckely both me and mum were close when it happened so Japp came to the hospital very fast. It didn't take long until he was sleeping and on the emergencytable at Van Zandt Animal Clinic.

I would like to say thank you to Dr. Wingo and all his staff at the clinic today for everything! You were fantastic!!!! I screamed in someones ear (turned out to be Vicky's) when it happened and actually gave them ten minutes notice that I was coming and prepare surgery and when I got there after ten minutes everything was prepared for us! Thank you for taking so good care of Japp!!!!

We decided that Japp will stay until tomorrow due to that we have so many animals and the possibility for Japp to have some stronger medication at the hospital.
The surgery went well and Japp will come home tomorrow with a lot of stitches in his ear. I promise to show you some pictures tomorrow!!!

Puppies to come

Yesterday we found out that Zascha is pregnant with Robbin and will be due any day...

We saw five maybe six puppies on the x-ray and we are hoping of a lot of different color since Zascha is sable and Robbin is red and we now that he delivers both liver and chocolat.

No foals yet but that should also come any day!

Daimilus Bisquit Boy

All puppies did their BAER-test today and all have bilateral hearing, which means that they hear on both ears.
Here is a small video at Daimilus Bisquit Boy when he explored the office earlier today

Cold Weather

Time for an update about what is going on here on the Ranch...

The weather has been pretty strange. This is how the fence looked like yesterday morning. It's been very very cold so both the dogs and horses wants to be indoors. Bad for the horses is that the water has frozed in the barn so to get water they need to be outdoors. But they have two blankets on instead. Think about where we are from. This is how it looks like all winter in Sweden... icy, cold, and wet, not nice...

The Cocker Spaniel puppies will be shipped to their new home tomorrow. I will be at the airport at 7 am to drop them of. One of them, Yen, will stay with us. They had their last vetexam yesterday and it went perfectly well so now all the papers should be in order for the trip. They will have a bath tonight so they look nice tomorrow.

We have one of the embroiderymachines up and running. The second one is still broken and we have ordered parts for it that will come during next week. But now we can start doing small things since it is the small machine that works. I will put up some pictures of some of the work we do here...

Daim has been practising agility a couple of times in the last week and he is doing good. He is starting to understand what the wavepoles are about and he thinks it is fun.

I think that will be all for today!

Dogs, vet and tires...

The vetexams went pretty well yesterday. It turned out that S.C. Japaneese Yen had a luxating patella wich means that her knee joint pops in and out. This is nothing she is hurt from but we still need to tell the new owner about that she didn't pass the examination to 100% and give her alternative to or not to take the dog. She choosed not to take the dog. After that we have decided that Yen will stay with us. The rest of the puppies passed their exam perfectly!

Unfortunatly I had to go back to the vet today but with Crispy. She have had earproblems before due to foodallergy and her ears have been iching really bad lately and this morning they were all bloody. We got an appointment to 1PM. I asked for getting Hills Z/D because that is the food that Crispy has been eating the last 2 years and it has been working perfect. Z/D is on prescription here in the US and in Sweden you can get it OTC at a hospital. But thanks to Dr. Kipp Wingo and his staff he fixed two bags out of nowhere to Crispy today! That was so nice of them! They also brought it home to me!
When I was supposed to leave they came and told me I had a flat tire... again. Do You know how much I hate that car??? But once again thanks to the staff an special thanks to Mr. Jones that helped me change the tire so I could just stand there and look like a stupid girl (as I was because I can't change tires...) and drive home safetly.

We have to go and fix that tire tomorrow so we don't drive around on a spare tire for long...

Saint Cox German Mark left for his new home last night. We got a report this morning that the night worked out just perfect! Saint Cox Bulgarian Leva and Saint Cox Polish Zloty moved to their new family today. They will both be in Dallas, in the same family... The rest of the puppies will stay for another 1½ weeks...

I think that will be it for today!

More Spots

Some updates of the Dalmatians puppies. They turns 2 weeks today!!! Time is running...

Candy was the first one to open her eyes yesterday!

Bounty opened hers last night. She is the one that will stay here with us :D

Bisquit is on his way to open his eyes...

And Balloon is still blind...

The Cockerspaniel puppies will have their vet exams this afternoon and the first one will probably leave tonight :D

Oliver...

The Saint Bernards are usually in the garage. Yesterday we left Oliver there and Geisha in another room because Geisha is in heat and we wanted her to have a rest from a very intensive Oliver. But when we came home after 2½ hours we found Oliver outside the garage...

He jumped out of the window!!!

We went straight ahead to the vet without looking closer if it was necessary. I just made the math my self that an 144 lb dog + window = not good. He might have glass in his wounds or anything that I couldn't see in his big furr. But he was lucky. He only got small cuts in his mouth and a small on his paw that didn't need stitches. So I went home with a big dog and $50 less in my pocket... and a broken window that we hopefully will get fixed during this week.

Dallas

Hi!


Today Splash welcomes you to the blog. Splash lives at the Animal Care Center in Wills Point where we go to the veterinary with the dogs. I was there this morning with Japp, who has hip dysplasia. The exrays just confirmed what we thought and he will now be on painkillers for a several months and will start with rehab after Christmas. Then we have to take one step at a time and see how he's doing...

Since this is the last days of Danielas stay here in Dallas we thought that she should have seen downtown Dallas before she leavs on Saturday.
We stayed at Potbelly and ate "Chicken Salad Salad". It was awesome :)

Puppies and some more

Hi again!

Our lives are right now surrounded by puppies. Our own puppies are doing well. They eat and sleep and scream, that's it. But they seem to be healthy and Molly is still a very good mum.
On October 8:th Daim mated Evelyn. Yesterday Evelyn got seven puppies. Unfortunatly two was dead but the five that still is here seems to do well so far. Two dogs and three bitches :). Daim is a very proud father!! One of this puppies will presumably move over here when it's old enough.

Daniela mountained Hanniball again today. Looking like a real cowboy they both seems to have a lot of fun :) It was windy today and that was even more fun if you ask Hanniball!

Today some of the dogs will go to the veterinarian to start their deworm program. We are not used to deworm our dogs as much as necessary here. We usually do it once a year and here you have to do it once a month!!! We will start with the Dalmatians and continue with the rest during this week.

I would also like to congratulate Kennel Jillocs who became The Best Breeder Of the year in Sweden 2008!!!! CONGRATULATIONS FROM US ALL!!! WELL DONE!

Hanniball

Hi again!

First week at the farm has gone fast.

Hanniball got a cold. We had to go to the Veterinarian to day just to get him checked up. There are so many different decises here that we don't have in Sweden. But it seems just to be a cold due to the climate that he is not used to. We got some medications for him, so hopefully he'll be just fine in a couple of days.

Got an email from the quaranteen that the mares are doing just fine. Dallas is nice, and so are the others of course.

Molly is getting closer to give birth. It's just a matter of days now. I think she is looking forward to getting them out now... We are almost prepared for them to come, just som small stuff that we need to organize before but that'll be fine I think...

That's all for now!

Take care!