Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[samssimonsays]

Pupdate! Rumely the Saint Pyrenees:

8.5 months old, 98#s and a whole lotta love. We are in a major growth spurt right now where he has hit a pretty rough patch of terrible twos but We are surviving and I feel like We are coming to a peak in it. Thankfully the worst he does is get too rough with Stella, convince us he is deaf, think night time is playtime and not let us sleep and has had a couple accidents because he's being a booger. If that is the worst, I'll take it! He has had a limp the past couple of days the vet dubbed as growing pains because he shot up in height,weight and mass within a few days that We need to just try to keep him from too much play. That's virtually impossible because when he's set on something, he's going to do it. We are slowly working towards him being out of his kennel all day while We are at work with leaving them out in the house while We run to town on weekends and they are doing astonishing with it. Now We just need to gain the courage to do it on a week day. Lol!

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[Hens and Roos]

Good Luck! It is hard to leave them out and not be there to watch- we just went through this with our Aussie(of course she has separation anxiety) - what we found works is to give her a kong in her crate, leave the TV on for her, shut the crate door but not latch it and then she can some out when ready. Most of the time she is laying under the table when we get back

 

[samssimonsays]

That is a great idea! We have left them for 7 hours in a day out but we are gone 11 hours out of the day so we are unsure of how that will work LOL.

 

[samssimonsays]

Out of 20 babies, we lost one at 6 weeks old to failure to thrive sadly, I have 18 show quality! WOW I can not believe the numbers.... Two of those are brood only due to one having been poked by hay in the eye and another having the wrong colored eyes for its color (not a genetic issue according to an ARBA judge and long time French Lop breeder).




Mary Gold



Flirt


Brutus




Titus




Chester

 

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Blue Boy


Archer


Iris


Alchemy






Tess



All the named ones are my favorites I would like to keep... :/ Probably wont be all of them LOL! But for sure 4 of them... One from each Litter unless the breeder takes first pick of Iris... Tess, Alchemy and HOPEFULLY Brutus are staying with me. And Iris will be too if she is not chosen. I REALLY like her but I promised first pick to the lady the dad came from and I will honor my word. There will be other litters. I REALLY love the blue steel doe and buck BUT I already made a deal for a trade, Blue for an orange. and NOW it may be a 2 for 2 trade... I have 3 blue babies so I am ok I also have 4 blue adults... I would rather add new lines and colors than keep more that are fully related to EVERYONE in my barn...

 

[animalmom]

Just Adorable!

 

[samssimonsays]

One of my orange babies

 

[samssimonsays]

My new Doeling is ready to come home this week... That means that Ollie has to leave for his new home as well. I am soooo attached to him now!

 

[Hens and Roos]

oh no

 

[samssimonsays]

I am having a really hard time with it.

But I did get a message from a gentleman I am supposed to do a rabbit trade with. He sent me photos of the ones he has for me to choose from. I picked out the two I will be getting, he decided he wants two blues instead of one so we are doing a trade of 2 for 2!

Doe is a Lilac Frosted Pearl and Buck is a Broken Orange. Same dad, different moms.

And here are a few pics from the weekend.