Puppies....

As you may have noticed, there have been no further news about Phoebe and her planned mating to Vargteam's Zordo.... This is simply because nothing happened!  When she arrived at Ole Dag's kennel, she was probably not fully into her cycle yet, and arriving amongst a bunch of hormone-pumped rather domninant bitches probably made her shut down the cycle....!  Phoebe is a happy-go-lucky girl, but she is not very dominant (whatever we mean by that....another dicussion altogether).  After scouting around we cane across a couple of alternative litters, both of which seem to be excellent!  Ulf and Kari Hope at Snørokk Kennel have a beautiful bunch of puppies after two of their main dogs: http://snorokk.wordpress.com/.  On the other hand, Trond and Siv have a litter of puppies (http://www.sh-hundespann.com/tuvas_valper_2010.htm), from which Johanne will pick a male... She gave us a tip, that ONE male was left - we talked to them and went down in the car yesterday (they live 1 hour away).... Forgot the camera at home, but I have stolen Johanne Sundby's photo and show it here below..  After seeing the mother and father as well as the puppies crawling all over, we have decided to get a puppy from the litter....!  It will be fun to have a small one running around at home... It will be up to Uncle Nexus to teach him how to hunt birds.....or not!?  Nexus has made the progression into a (partly) outdoors cat - on Saturday he spent the entire day running around chasing birds without success... It is fun to watch him stalking, and it seems his instincts are strong.... :-)