Coventry&District Kennel Association Open Show 2012

The show was held at Stoneleigh Park where I take Harley for the ringcraft training every Wednesday.
It's literally only 10 minutes drive away but we made it late and missed our breed class:( Typical!
I knew that there were two other breeds in the same ring first, and took a guess but clearly made
wrong guess.

Fortunately we entered two other classes too so it's not totally waste of time. In fact it turned up to be a
very nice day. I got 3rd in the adult handling class which I had never done before and got a diploma.
Harley surprised me today, he went to the open stake class for AV Gundog Postgraduates- a big entry

class- he won!! He got the first against other breeds in Gundog. I was over the moon!

That was us in adult handling class.

We clearly enjoyed the show today. OMG, no giggling:)

Maisy and her babies

The above is taken today.
They are 8 days old now, last night the boy weighed 660g and the girl was 635g.

The following two photos were taken the day before yesterday:)

Pups(photo)

1 Day Old Puppies

Puppies Arrived Today

It  has been a horrible 36 hours, Maisy started her first stage of labour then which lasted 24 hours. We had already contacted the Vet after about 12 hours. Neither Jenny or I slept much last night.

We rang the vet again at 5am, followed their advice and by 6 she started the second stage of labour but there was no sign of her waters breaking and her contractions were irregular  and weak. So, we took her to the vet. He gave her an injection to help the process and by 10am we had a lovely little boy.

He has the shape of a flying dragon over his shoulders neck and back........ so his name will be Imperial Dragon.  We left Maisy there to make sure all was well and the collected her and Dragon, about 11.30

Maisy was extremely tired and nothing much was happening, but some time later she started showing signs of wanting to give birth again but there were no contractions, and suddenly there was a black discharge which could have meant there was placental separation, so I rushed her back to the vet. Jenny was out but when she got back realised what had happened and where i was, so followed on after.

By this time I had taken the decision to have a  C section performed as she still had a t least one puppy inside her.  Well, two hours later we had  Maisy back with a big girl, who was apparently found travelling the wrong way along the uterus. If she were male I would call her Wrong Way John!!!

The good news is they are both big healthy puppies which accounts for Maisy's size when pregnant, but this is the last litter she will have as we did not want to put her through it again, and we had her spayed.

Ah, I know her name now Wong Wei , she is as pretty as Wei Wei Wong from Pans People!! So given her sense of direction its very fitting.

Overall, though tired, we are pleased we made the decisions to take her to the vet, it definitely saved Wong's life, and they are both really good looking big puppies, with very healthy appetites, and neither of them had difficulty in getting on the nipple. Maisy as before is a very good mum, but now she can just spend out her life being a pet!!

Life without internet

We haven't had the telephone line and internet in the house from Wednesday last week...Life has gone back to the old days: more chatting, playing in the family, and you believe or not more time too... BT people are expected in three days to check the wires...

Today I discovered paying a £2 per day on my iphone enables me to use internet on my laptop because I desperately need to send some files out by emails...So before the BT man coming we have excuse now to be back to modern life.

Actually another important thing I need to do is to update post here about Maisy. We are still waiting for puppies arrival. The expecting date is in fact today, but she hasn't shown any signs yet: no panting, no nesting, no gone off food....Fingers crossed, but please don't deliver overnight:)

The phone was taken yesterday afternoon when we took the boys for a walk. Now what a miserable day again:(

WELKS Ch Show 2012

West England Ladies Kennel Society Champion Show held in Malvern last weekend. It was wet and
cold, the worst show condition even for people with many years' show experience. It took me long time to decide if I should go or not. However, I am glad that we went because Harley obtained his ticket for Crufts 2013. Worth doing so...

The view from three countries showground was very pretty so I took a photo when rain stopped a bit. Now the ticket in hand, I only need to attend some shows for fun, no pressure:)