5 weeks old

The pups are now 5 weeks old and their play drive and personalities are starting to shine through. AND they get cuter every day. I've got my eye on 5 of the 8 that could be good potential working dogs. We'll see...

Here are some of the latest pics.



Aspen



Grant



Gunny

Kit

Morgan

Sierra

Teton

Bailey

Puppies, Puppies, Everywhere!

Ms. Molli had her puppies September 2nd. We ended up with 8 adorable pups all with names taken from the Rocky Mountains. They are five days old today. They have had a traumatc day going to the vet to have their dewclaws removed and pictures taken. Wanna meet them?

                                       Here is our first and biggest boy.

                                     The first and darkest yellow female.

                                             

Our first (of 3) chocolate females, Morgan.

Our chocolate male, Gunny.

And Teton, our only black male.

And here is our smallest and lightest female.

And Sierra, our second chocolate female.

And last but not least, Bailey, the third chocolate female.

More Puppy Chatter

We just got some feedback from one of our last puppies, Dozier. He went to an Extreme Fighter/Body Builder in Philadelphia that has been incapacitated by diabetes. He couldn't leave the house to work out or even go to the store, for fear his blood sugar would crash or spike fatally. He called the other day crying to say this little 11 month old pup, that he has had for two weeks, has given him his life back. He has been out walking, shopping, and has been able to start working out again because this little pup. Wow! Again, I love getting this feedback! It makes all the work worth it! He wakes him up out of a dead sleep and if the man pushes him away or tries to ignore him, he gets louder and more persistent and has even jumped on his chest and barked into his face until he gets up. Just the other day, he came back inside from going out to get the mail and was greeted by a flying dog. He had jumped off the couch into this man's arms barking, barking, barking (which is his alert when either his blood sugar is too high or low). And he even goes so far as to nudge him while he is eating to get him to continue eating until his blood sugar has reached a more normal level. That is just so amazing! What a dog! We already have 7 puppies from our next litter spoken for and she is not even pregnant yet. So cool!

Hero for the day-More puppy chatter

In case you are not aware, we have had two litters of puppies. Most of them end up going through a diabetes alert training program and placed in homes with a child with diabetes. We just heard that one of our pups from our June litter, Bear, was delivered to his new family last weekend. The first 3 days at his new house he managed to alert on his new vet, who was just diagnosed with diabetes, as well as, a runner in the park who was in the beginning stages of being diagnosed. He even managed to trump the new $6000 monitor his new family had just purchased and alerted even when the monitor failed...and he is only 4 months old! I will never get tired of hearing these stories! Here is Bear at 2 months.

The Honda Adventure

The kiddos and I were coming back from the Open House Saturday and were about 8 miles from home on the interstae when the Honda stopped. No big deal. We called MacGyver and walked to the nearest shopping center, about a mile away. The interstates in Colorado have some of the nicest paved sidewalks for bikers and runners (as well as parks on just about every corner) and we took our little pup, Grizzy, for a nice little walk. We were even able to eat a yummy dinner at Noodles while we were waiting! We had trouble finding a tow truck so our hero got off work and came and picked us up. We had it towed to our little cabin and MacGyver decided the next day that the timing belt had snapped. We were so thankful it happened less than 10 miles from home, it didn't destroy the engine, and macGyver could fix it at his leisure. God is so gracious! One of my favorite things about MacGyver is he can fix almost anything; hence the nickname! Oh! Here is a picture of Grizzy (who later became Abby), at her new home. Can you see the mohawk between her eyes? So precious!

Open House at the Fire Department

MacGyver's department had their annual Open House Saturday. He and Tank spent about three hours demonstrating a Search using 5 different bark barrels. The kiddos and I went and had breakfast and checked out some of their equipment, watched 'our boys' work and took the last puppy from our litter, Grizzy, the biggest of the chocolate pups. Four different families wanted her. She ended up settling into the EMS Chief's family, who fell head over heels in love with her. We delivered her to her new home a couple of days later. On the way home, the kiddos were asking their daddy about the hierarchy of Lieutenants, Captains, Chiefs, and Battalion Chiefs. Out of the back seat, Izzy says, "Daddy, is your Italian Chief really Italian?"  We laughed and laughed and then explained to her that they are Battalion Chiefs...not Italian Chiefs.