Bear's gone home

So, I just finished the handoff of Bear to his new home. Lisa came to pick him up to take him to Barb. Here are some photos I have had left over:

Sad day. We'll miss him. Like I said before, we'll let you know any news about him when we get updates

Stairmasters

So, as of Recently, the newest thing for the puppies to do is to try to take on the stairs. Bear (previously named Little Buddy) has been the front runner in this endeavor, and Scarlett (previously Lil' Bit) is bringing up the rear. We do, however, let them try it on their own, since carrying 9 pounds of squirming puppies is getting harder and harder each day. Here's some video of Scarlett's latest attempt! She is very vocal about how scared she is, but she toughs it out anyways...

More to come soon!

New Puppy Names!

So, after much consideration on the names of our pups, we have decided that their birth names just aren't cutting the mustard. We've renamed our two, and left the naming up to the adoptive owners of the other two.

In birth order:
1:Previous Name: "Uno"
New Name: "Riley"
Staying/Going?: Going with Ginny Fuller, one of Naomi's friends from college.

2:
Previous Name: "Lil' Girl"
New Name: "Yoda"
Staying/Going?: always staying in our hearts:( (buried under the tree)

3:Previous Name: "Little Buddy"
New Name: "Bear/Butch" (originally changed to Bear, switched a couple days ago to Butch)
Staying/Going?: Going with Barb, one of Mom's friends

4:Previous Name: "Lil' Bit"
New Name: "Scarlett"
Staying/Going?: Staying:)

5:
Previous Name: "Rotty"
New Name: "Kona"
Staying/Going?: Staying:)

For the most part, the names all fit the dogs, which is a good thing. Bear will be leaving later today to go to his new home, so it's a sad but good day. We hope to still keep you updated on his story and progress, so when we get info, so will you!

Sad day.

Sadness has struck. On Saturday, we lost the Yoda, the runt. We decided to rename her, being as she needed a better name than the one we had bestowed upon her.

We knew something was wrong that morning when Scout brought Yoda up into the bed, seemingly urging us to fix her, as she sensed something was wrong.


The day went past, and Naomi continued to syringe feed her, trying to get her to gain some weight.


Naomi and I had just finished our dinner and headed up to feed the runt. During feeding, we noticed that she had a cleft palate. Upon inspecting the rest of the pups for cleft palates, we looked online to figure out if that truly was what we were dealing with. Once realizing that we had finally figured out what was wrong, we called the Emergency Vet Clinic, who said that we should go ahead and bring her in. by the time we got ourselves ready to go, she was gone. We went ahead and took her in just to make sure, and were confirmed of her passing.

She is now buried underneath the tree by our house:(

The Scuddies are here!

Jason here... So, since our last update, we've been quite busy... i'll try to update a little bit more later, but for now, our newest and biggest (actually, smallest) news! Scout and Buddy have become puppy parents! The two are proud parents of 5, count em, 5 pups. How Scout held them all in, we have no clue. However, at 7:00 last night (March 10, 2009), we welcomed into this world the first pup, a boy, and by 8:45 we had a total of 5, with 3 girls and 2 boys. I have taken to calling them the "Scuddies," and we're lucky enough that one of us will be home for the next 5 days to look after them. We don't really know how much of that we'll have to do, as Scout has taken to them extremely well, much better than we thought, and cleaned them immediately and has been nursing them for the last 16 hours straight. She's a good mom.

So anyways, i know you guys want pictures, so here they are!

all 5 pups! They really like to cuddle with each other...
Pup #1 - a little boy! we've started calling him Uno. He's quite possibly the largest of the 5.

Pup #2 - a little girl! The runt. We call her Lil' girl for obvious reasons.

Pup #3 - a boy. We call him Little Buddy because he looks more like Buddy and he's a whiner... just like his papa.

Pup #4 - a little girl! We call her Lil' Bit. No real reason.

#5 - a little girl! We call her Rotty because she's kinda rottweiler-esque, and kinda rambunctious...

Mama Scout and her little babies... amazing.