Shimi gorgeous at 7 weeks

Shimi - 22 Oct 2009

Shimi is 7 weeks old and she is absolutely beautiful.  I dropped into see her on the way home from work today.  I figured it would be good if she got to know me a bit and that if I smelt and sounded familiar when we pick her up next Saturday to come to her new come that maybe she would settle more easily.

All of the puppies are just so gorgeous…. 7 weeks is just a lovely age when all their little personalities start to come out.  As it turns out Shimi is a quiet girl.  Several of the others were yapping a lot, one kept climbing over the little fence into the next pen, no matter how many times Stef put her back!  I picked Shimi up and sat her on my knee and she happily stayed there for 15 minutes.  She sniffed me all over and looked at me quietly.  She reminds me a lot of the type of puppy Jessie used to be (Jessie of course the reason why we chose to get a goldy!).

9 sleeps before Shimi comes home

We chose Shimi today!  3 weeks until she comes home.

Shimi 5 Weeks old

Caitlin with pups (4 weeks)

We decided to go and meet Bonnies puppies so Caitlin, Cliff and I headed over there on Saturday 3rd October.  Although 9 puppies had been born we discovered one had been put to sleep (the largest female) because she had a cleff palate and couldn’t feed properly.  So that leaves just 4 females and there are two people choosing before us.  We contacted the owner, Mark, the following week when the pups were 5 weeks and he advised that the first person having a female had already chosen their pup and they will advise as soon as it is our turn.  Hopefully that will be sometime during this week.

I asked Mark about the big difference in size of the puppies…. a couple are large, several are medium sized and then there are 2 very small ones.  He said that Bonnie had been mated on 3 occasions and therefore conception had occured over a 5 day period and that the smaller pups were last conceived.  Mark said that the smaller pups will catch up in size in their first year.

Well two weeks have past on spring clean 15 and I feel two weeks better than the last photo.  I have exercised more in the past two weeks than any other time in the past 18 months and that alone has made me feel great.  I cycled 40kms on Friday, spent Sat, Sun and Mon working up at the farm, and Cliff and I cycled 16kms to Canning Bridge and back after work last night getting home just on darkness.  Tonight we will be leaving dead on 5pm so we can repeat last nights cycle.