Our Current Pair

After deciding that we wanted to have mixed litters instead of nothing but blacks we held back a male pup from our 2009 litter from Bear and Nakita in hopes he would carry the blue gene from Bear. We officially named him Toby, but we call him Mr. T because his white mark on his chest when he was a pup formed almost a perfect T shape. We found a blue female in Oklahoma that had a healthy established bloodline with 2 previous generations of her heritage raised by the breeder with no health problems, we decided to name her Misty, partly because of her misty blue color and partly because of the play on words of having a pair named Misty and Mr. T.

We raised them together just like our previous pair and waited until they were 2 years old to breed them. With Misty's first litter she had trouble getting the first pup out so we had to make an emergency trip to the Vet and after an x-ray a shot and an hour of waiting for shot to kick in our vet decided it was time to do a C-Section to attempt to save as many of the pups as possible. Finally at 2 A.M. we had two live pups, both males, one blue, one black. After having a C-Section the vet warned us that she would most likely not recognize the pups as hers for a day or so and that we would need to keep them separate from her unless we were supervising her. They were right, the first time we sat the pups to her for them to suck she flipped out and attempted to flee the room. After calming her back down I had to hold her down and obscure her view from the pups as they sucked, we had to repeat the process every couple hours. After the first day she started to take to the pups and things started getting easier.

Below is a slide show from our 2011 litter, if you are unable to see the slide show there is a direct link to the album here.