Snow & Fire?

There are wet white flakes falling here again...what's with this global warming thing - it's sure in effect in Australia see this link to the bushfires, which has some fantastic, yet at the same time horrific pictures. But warming is clearly not in our part of the world today.

Good news to report - the frozen semen finally successfully arrived at the university in Europe and so the breeder Susan ,is now testing progesterone levels on her girl - hopefully she will have a nice litter.

A Good Day

Well the frozen semen has arrived back in Amsterdam -it was delayed overnight in Atlanta, so it did not arrive there until Saturday morning, and so will wait until Monday for the Customs agents to successfully (we hope) clear it through and onto the vet who will do the insemination. And hopefully the timing will all work out for Susan

We had a lovely sunny day here, in the mid 50's and so David and I enjoyed a long invigorating walk.

Our beautiful puppies (and their mother) arrived back from Terri, who raised the litter for us - and did a marvelous job - Thanks Terri.

It was a sunny day here and our new Danish dogs enjoyed the sun

Above & Below is Thomas
Below is Susan

A day of frustrtion

I seem to have spent all day on the phone or the computer. I was trying to find the real story behind why the frozen semen that was shipped from the USA to the Netherlands by FedEx was sent back to the USA after less than 12 hours in Amsterdam. The claims were incorrect paperwork (we followed the directions); package contained dry Ice (it did not); and no reason at all. Not sure I really got to the bottom of the matter, but the semen was reshipped again today and hopefully this time will arrive sucessfully at its destination on Friday. The bitch it is to be used on is in season, so we dont have all the time in the world.

Retirement

Today we said goodbye to Chelsea, who has provided us with many beautiful puppies - she did not however go to the Rainbow Bridge, but to live with Carol & Van, who are former Beagle owners. With them she will have a wonderful, spoilt life with 2 people to cater to her every whim - walks, treats, cuddles and a life not lacking in anything. Whilst we were sad to see her go, we know that she will enjoy this new stage in her life - Thank you Carol & Van.
We are also minding some of Carrie's Beagles, while she is vacationing in Kauai - have some of that Hawaian seafood for me - have a great week of relaxation. We will be thinking of you.....

Great Tennis

Just finished watching the final of the Australian Open Tennis between Nadal (Spain) and Federer (Switzerland) this was a fantastic game with lots of long rallys and incredible shots. Nadal was the winner. It was played at about 9pm local time (in Melbourne) until well after midnight - to try and avoid some of the very hot temperatures, that they are having at the moment.

So who reads this blog?

Well according to my stats (and these are over the time the blog has been up and running) there is quite a world wide readership - but I would like to see more countries on the list so forward it to friends in other countries...
Today we have sunshine, which is very welcome

I had some minor technical glitches -trying to get the photos off my memory card in the camera, but finally rescued a picture of our friends Anna & Miikka (in the rear) and Pia & Knud (at the front) having breakfast at the Kro we stayed at in Denmark last weekend. This is what makes travel so much fun - meeting friends around the world.
Our next overseas trip will be to Cruft's in March - where I am sure we will meet up with more friends - See you there...let me know if you are going.
I found these pictures taken of last years show - see what you are missing.

And here is a picture of the boy we brought home - Thomas. (thank you Gerner for the photo)