Emma and Kyah

Emma and Kyah visit 2 days a week.Yesterday Emma arrived with a distinctive odor, turns out last Wednesday evening she had encountered a skunk.As long as she stays dry and you don't pet her too much you can barely smell her. Emma is part lab and part chow. From what I can see the only chow gene she got was a black tongue! From her labrador side she inherited an a amazing ability to retrieve. She never gets tired of chasing the ball, bringing it back and dropping it right into your hand.

Emma's owner told me that Emma loves the water if it's a pond or a river but will not go near the kiddie pool. Today for the first time she actually got her muzzle into the pool and retrieved, yup you got it , the ball.
Emma has a tough job at Sit Stay and Play because she is the oldest dog. Running around with 4 puppies she had to give a lot of correction to the puppies when they get wild. It is almost as if her maternal instincts kick in. I see her  interactions with the puppies that remind me of the way my bitches use to react to their young. As a pure bred breeder, we spend hours pouring over pedigrees to make sure that we have correct shoulders and good rears and level toplines and along comes Emma a beautiful square balanced dog with a rear most breeders would die for! Go figure....

How Do You Spell Fun?

Well apparently w - a - t - e - r + m - u - d if you are a Labrador. The aftermath of Irene and the wettest August on record has left the bottom of the yard with a crystal clear stream and it didn't take Bailey and Margaux the 2 lab puppies long to find that spot. Ninety five percent of the yard was dry but like bees to honey the labs were off and running.

And running and sliding and tackling each other in what was once a crystal clear stream. In a matter of minutes they turned the area into a giant mud bath, and what fun they had. When they grew tired of the mud pit they set their sights on the water bucket.  When it came time for their nap I had a dilemma, bathe them and put them in their crates wet or just put them in muddy and wash the beds. I chose to wash the beds By the time I got them into their crates I had as much mud on me as they did. It didn't bother them in the least that they were caked in mud. I guess they thought it would be good for their complexions! When it comes to labs no water is off limits, they even attacked the water dish inside, spilling it 3 times and then looking at me when there was no water in the dish for a drink.

Elsie the Pekinese

I have never been a fan of toy dogs. There was always a sigh when we had to sit throught he toy group before watching all the other groups at the dog show. Perhaps I have felt a bias because of the hollywood crowd who flaunt their toy dogs as if they were accessories. And then I met "Elsie" she is a little 2 and 1/2 year old peke. What a charmer, she has a haircut that makes her look like a little teddy bear. She cruises around with the bigger dogs showing absolutely no fear! She plays with a tiny tennis ball batting it around the room and carrying it around in her mouth. She can almost roll over but needs a little help because she is pretty round. The cutest thing about Elsie is when she is out in the yard sniffing the ground. Because her face is so flat it looks like her face is completely smooched into the ground but around she goes checking out all the great smells. What I like about this little girl is how she lifts her leg when she pees....letting everyone around her know that she is the alpha bitch! Go Elsie

Our First Guest...Zaira

Our first guest at Sit Stay & Play was a very sweet 2 year old sheperd cattle dog mix named Zaira. She was a very lucky dog because she was sent up to MA and arrived in a no kill shelter where she was adopted to her forever home. Zaira was very well trained and she loved her tennis ball. I thought my arm was going to fall out of the socket because she never grew tired of me tossing the tennis ball. She spent 2 weeks with us and thoroughly enjoyed spending the day with Finnegan on the first landing of the stairs where she had a birds eye view of everything going on around her. She has a beautiful expression and there was a mahogany tint to the coat along her back even though she looked black.
She seemed to enjoy her time at Sit Stay & Play as much as we enjoyed having her!

Welcome

Sitting through the "Hurricane" Irene which actually was a tropical storm by the time it hit the area gave me time to set up a blog to go with my facebook page, my twitter account and my website.
I hope to post most days so anyone can follow the daily adventures of the dogs who come and spend their days with me.
So feel free to follow along.