Australian Shepherds by Bit O’ Blarney: Dog and Cat Grooming, Boarding, and Loving in the Salinas, Monterey, and Santa Cruz Counties of California

After a good rain, today was a beautiful day. I really think we have the best weather on the entire Central Coast!! The Monterey Peninsula gets more fog, (too cold) and the valley gets more heat, (too hot) and we are (to borrow a phrase from Goldilocks) “just right!” Perfect weather to watch the puppies grow. Nothing cuter than an Australian Shepherd puppy! They really love running around and exploring things, (translation, eating it, dragging it around, or tearing it up) I feel kinda bad for those Aussie puppies that don’t get to run and play in our beautiful weather…besides the sunshine makes the dandelions grow and those yellow flowers are a favorite thing to grab on the run, while your litter mate is chasing you. I am so enjoying this litter… but they are time wasters! Wooly bears are peaking out from under furniture…. and where is the housekeeper (me)? Outside, playing with puppies!! Puppies will not be around forever, but the wooly bears sure will be, so it isn’t much of a choice, now is it? Sunshine, green grass and blue merle and black tri aussie puppies….. it can’t get any better than THAT!

He has been patiently waiting for his kids to be old enough to play with him.  He adores babies of any kind, (see his kitten in other posts) and he has been watching and waiting.  I knew he was really REALLY wanting to play with them when I saw him do something adorable.  Evenings after all the kennel dogs are put to bed, is ‘our time’.  He selects a toy and we chase around, play keep away, catch, etc.  That night, he picked his VERY favorite, “Rodney” a gurgling lobster.  He picked out that toy at a dog show, and loves the noise it makes.  Anyway, he threw Rodney around for a few minutes and then had an obvious ‘light bulb moment’. He took Rodney down the hall and put his feet up on the puppy room barricade and dropped it over the side, for his kids to play with.  It was SO obvious that he wanted to play with them….so the next day was THE DAY.  We all went out into the back yard and was he ever HAPPY!  He tried to get them to chase him with a pull toy, but they were not fast enough yet.  So he just got down on their level and had a ball.  He needed to teach them that he wasn’t momma, and couldn’t feed them, but once that was established, they had a ball with their Dad.  He was so gentle and careful, and they were little sharp toothed demons!  I really enjoyed watching them together.  I hope you enjoy the pictures I took!

Believe it or not, she’s “smiling” and wagging her Braille tail!

Leslie tells me they are all very loving and cuddle bug puppies…. she has her eye on a BTB for herself…:)

Leslie emailed that some of the puppies have already gone to their new homes! She convinced hubby that they needed to keep ‘Eve’ the BTB that she picked from the start. She tells me that Eve’s first show will be @ the ASCA show in Dixon, in September. I sure look forward to seeing her!