TraMar Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Birthdays and Canine Crew update

It’s been busy around here, and technically, I’m still on vacation; but I wanted to share a little bit of an update for you on the canine crew.

I once again, was unable to make it to the Small Dog MeetUp group event.  I would love to go to these, and rotate taking the dogs, they could use the socialization, but alas, none of them are exactly close to me (about an hour or so away for all the events) and time is usually at a premium here (and so are gas prices!), so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to participate in this group any time soon.  Maybe some day.  They do have a new dog park in Washington, and have events there at least one Saturday a month – that might be a better option for me; but none of these events seems to occur on days I’m available.  *sigh*

Update:  everyone is doing exceedingly well.  Henry just celebrated his 1st birthday on July 3rd!  Happy Birthday Henry!!

Georgie is getting big as well – he turned 5 months old on July 5th.  Here he is with my 6 year-old Hannah.

Here’s Charles – peeking over a chair.

And finally, Hope.  What a sweet girl she is!

Georgie & Hope

It has been awhile since I’ve updated here – sorry about that.  Georgie is now 4.5 months old and doing extremely well.  He’s so stinkin’ cute!

And here’s Hope, snoozing at my feet.

I am giving very serious thought to showing Georgie in AKC conformation.  I’m hoping to attend/join a local all-breed kennel club that’s near me; and hoping I can find someone willing to mentor me a bit in showing.  We shall see.  Either way, I intend to enter Georgie in the local dog show that have here in Sullivan each September.  He turns 6 months in August, so will be old enough for the 6-9 month old puppy class for the September show.

I’m also considering agility for Henry and Jack (my Shih Tzu) and possibly seeing how Charlie and/or Hope might do as therapy dogs.   I have never done anything but basic obedience classes with any dog I’ve ever owned; but I’m wanting to try new/different things to do with them.   I guess I won’t know how I, or the dogs, like doing these activities until we at least try.

George [King George of the Jungle]

He’s getting so big!! He’s 3.5 months old now.

He’s doing quite well on house training, and has settled in nicely with the rest of the pack.

Hope is also doing equally as well (photo below).  She is just the biggest lump of love I’ve ever seen.  So gentle and sweet.  What a wonderful addition to our family!!!!! 

And Henry will soon (July 3, 2008) be turning 1 year old and is also doing very well since joining our family in December 2007. Here’s Henry in a full run towards me, in a rare time when I actually remembered to take the camera outside with me! 

Nearly two weeks ago, I finally managed to get four of the dogs in for their neuter/spay surgeries.  Since getting three dogs in a very short time-frame (Henry, Hope and George), I had added two to the house that needed to be altered soon that were not.  I also had not altered Charlie, or my Shih Tzu Jack, up to this point; waffling with myself on whether or not to show Charlie and breed him.   I decided not to, and any unaltered animal that was old enough (George was not old enough) had surgery all on the same day!  Boy, that was an experience for me getting them all to and from the vet; but everyone did fine.  I had annual check-ups and vaccinations done and Charlie and Hope’s teeth also cleaned.  So everyone is good to go for another year.  Good news:  all hearts checked out good!!