Yesterday afternoon around 2pm I called in an order to Dr’s Foster & Smith for some ‘bloomers’ for our female Springer Spaniel. She just had a litter of pups a few months ago and is again coming into heat, so she’s getting some fancy britches to wear for a couple of weeks to ensure she’s not bred again! Yeah yeah yeah who cares, the cool thing is the order arrived at 11am this morning! For some reason they shipped FedEx Overnight (with saturday delivery), but charged me for standard ground (5-7 day) delivery. Gotta love that place, they have everything for all of our critters! Even slipped in a couple of new pumps for our saltwater reef tanks with the order. They are only a couple hundred miles from us and we have to pay sales tax on everything since they are in state, with shipping like this why bother driving?

Of the last 5 orders from them in the past 8 months or so 4 of them have been shipped overnight without my request or paying for it, but never a saturday delivery More phone/mail/net order companies should take note of this and follow suit.

Only one puppy left who is looking for a place to call home near Wisconsin Dells, WI…. My bud “Bruiser”, his brother left Sunday evening, and now his personality is really shining through. I really need to break down the BIG kennel and switch it out for a small crate for him to sleep in now. Sure looked full with all the pups running around in there, now Bruiser looks lost in it by himself. He sure is learning how to use those big puppy dog eyes to get scooped up and hauled around the house, and onto the bed, just a big ol’ sweetheart is what he is.

For more details see the Briar Patch Puppies website.

Angel and Gab got some new pics today of the puppies still awaiting adoption…. Here they are today at 11 weeks.

Two more of the puppies left for their new home last night. Just two more to go and hopefully life will return to normal. Well as close to normal as possible, the pups are being missed already, but we know they are heading for great homes and families, fitting since they are all adorable.

Here are some older pics of the two liver and white males that are still looking for new families to join, we really need to get updated pictures sorted out to post…

Pup #3 aka Bruiser, the cool marking is only on one side of his nose, looks like he got whopped a good one.

Think Gab named this guy Bartholamu, don’t ask me why… or how to spell it…

For more info check out the Briar Patch Puppies website.

Angel found some well written info about these critters, We have 5 so they must fit us well… Why 5? Not sure, I think we’ve lost our minds somewhere along the path.

Is an English Springer right for you and your family?
Here’s an article I found that might help you to decide!
The English Springer Spaniel is a compact medium sized dog with long pendant ears. Lovable and fond of children, they are even tempered, gentle and sociable. These sweet tail-waggers are very cheerful and playful; always affectionate, good natured and sincere. An amiable breed, this dog just loves everyone! Being the extroverts that they are, they have a tendency to be destructive and to bark a lot if left alone too long. There are two types of Springers – field and bench. The field type are bred for hunting and field trial work. They tend to have more white coat than the bench type, much less hair, and are more active. The bench type are bred for conformation shows and have more liver or black than white, they have much more coat, but are usually calmer. The male Springer Spaniel stands about 19-21 inches while the female stands from 18-20 inches. In weight, the male is of course heavier at 45-55 pounds compared to the female which is only about 40-50 pounds.

Gab and I went out for the afternoon to cruise the lake and just goof off to spend some of that ‘quality time’ we rarely have time for. We were going to try to get her up on skis for the first time, but wasn’t able to find anyone else to go to serve as a spotter for me. Normally I’d have to turn people away to go boating, our boat will seat eight comfortably, but is stickered for six, but we’ve accumulated all sorts of things to drag behind the boat so there’s always something to do. So instead we took my big baby, Hunter Briars, his first boating trip. Judging from his reaction it will not be the last time… we all had a good time.

Wasn’t able to get very many pics while we were out, Hunter was having such a good time diving off the back of the boat to chase his retrieving dummy, by the time I could get the camera back out and turned on he’d jump back in the boat to shake off for the next run.

But a good time was had by all, of course with a storm looming and threatening to break we headed back in, by the time we got back home (only 10 miles) the sun broke through and the storm was gone, go figure. Hunter is just plain crashed out, he’ll sleep pretty good tonight

Next weekend should be the fireworks display for the forth they put on every year at the lake. They put on a pretty decent show, but it’s even better watching from the water, that’s where you’ll find us.

We started an ad the midle of last week in the local paper and Angel has been fielding calls continually, we’re down to three males left that are looking for loving homes, here they are at 6.5 weeks or so.

For more info on them jump over to Briar Patch Puppies. Tommorrow they’ll be 8 weeks old and getting thier first puppy shots

Pup #2, now better known as Sophie (I guess that’s how it’s spelled….who knows), but she has been adopted, her new owners did not want to wait a moment longer than at all possible, no more rough and tumble time with the other pups, she went home Friday (at 6 1/2 weeks old). No big deal they have been weaned off of mothers milk and been eating solid food for weeks now… not to mention whatever little critters Momma may have brought them while we were not looking. But we sent along her 8 week injection and a couple doses of wormer to boot.

She’s going to a great home and will be one spoiled rotten puppy

For more info on the litter jump over to Briar Patch Puppies. New updates pictures of the babies will be up soon, the present ones posted are at at 4 weeks, time is flying by so fast it’s hard to keep up with them. Growing like weeds and they’ve got needles for teeth, I’ve got a few perforated fingers to prove it too.

Our first pup from the litter of English Springer Spaniels is now spoken for…

Say hello to Jack,

Old picture I know, we have a few new ones, just not fair to post only some until we can get all of them shot.

He’s going to a wonderful home down in Madison, WI in about two weeks.

The whole litter got their first real bath yesterday, someone really wasn’t thinking too well…. I put all 7 in the tub and started counting as I was washing them…. when I hit 9 it really dawned on me that I’d not really thought this through well enough After they dried off and took a nap everyone got piled up and taken outside to play in the grass out front. What a monkey pile!

See this post for more of his litter mates, or the Briar Patch Puppies website for contact info if you are looking for a great pup!

Been a long time waiting to get pics of our new litter of English Springer Spaniels posted, at long last here they are at 4 weeks, and getting cuter by the day. Already learned how to beg to be picked up and snuggled. The last two were getting sleepy and just wculdn’t sit up any longer to get their pictures taken, it was nappy time. We’ll be trying to update them weekly. More info and contact information is available at the little website Angel put together @ Briar Patch Puppies. Already eating regular dog food on their own NO bottled feeding this time around! AKC papers arrived last week so all they need to do is grow a bit more and they’ll be ready for their puppy shots then new homes.