perhaps you have this to look forward to!

 

This was us, this evening: Waiatarua.

There's an art to walking an inside-the-house dog: first, get them running, and hot; then go past the muddy parts, and then to the cleaner water. Allow time to roll in dry grass & drip-dry before home.

After the cleansing mud of Waiatarua (so good for post-natal wrinkles!) I usually put Allez! in the shower. Whilst she's there, I try to brush out the tangles, grass and mud with an old hairbrush.

Bye, Pups!

The White One, just before she left ... she may be called Molly, apparently!

We'd appreciate photos of the pups as they grow, so we can all see them change into young dogs. After all, this above is  quite some change from this (25th August):

and this (21st August):

As we didn't keep a pup this time, we're planning on Allez! having another litter in a year or so.


We'd love to see how the pups develop and to hear whether they're retrievers and swimmers! Other families would love to see how the brother and sister pups grow and develop.

a sleep before the RWC Final

The White One is the only one left with us, and leaves tomorrow.


That means she's on the sofa with me this evening.

in the sun after a bath

These were taken on the morning three pups were being collected. Ruby ("Big Girl") and George ("Harry Potter") had already left during the week.


So, "The Smooth-Haired Boy" - now Digby, Maggie neé "White Paws", and Roxie aka "The Feisty Wee One", and "The White One" had a bath. Here they here they are (after a towelling) sunning themselves. 


It's odd to reflect that their new owners have what they think is a puppy ... but, having seen them grow from day to day over nine weeks, to us they're now quite big dogs!

after an afternoon playing in the sun

Sunday play

outside the kitchen door ...

the prelude to the Warriors game ...

on the deck - 6 weeks old