This weekend we bid farewell to 5 of our precious puppies. Our partner Gail from Prairie Doodles picked up 4 of the puppies as they would meet up with their families at her farm in Blackie. Keely kissed Bella, Cooper, Rupert and Wally before we helped Gail load them up. Today my awesome friend Christa took Hilo Cherry and they were off to her parents in Brooks to watch Saskatchewan beat Montreal in the Grey Cup tomorrow:) Did I ever mention I was from Saskatchewan??Hilo will remain in our breeding program once she completes testing in the next year.

We are now left with Jasper, Ramona and our little pal with the cleft palate whom we refer to as Buddy. He is perfectly imperfect and reminds me everyday how easy it is to be happy.
Jasper and Ramona will leave in a couple of weeks and Buddy will stay with us until after his surgery in late December.
Tonight I was in the Christmas spirit and thought I would get some photos of my little friends and in typical doodle style they joined in my enthusiasm for the holidays. Delaney  (Ramona) and Angela,  and her family(Jasper) will have great fun when their doodles arrive!

We are on the last week with our precious little puppies. They will have their spay/neuters tommorrow and will start to leave us on Saturday. We have really enjoyed Keely’s first litter and are thrilled with our puppy families!

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We are adding some new experiences to the puppies lives. Yesterday they had their first bath. They had varying degrees of enthusiasm but the end result was clean, soft, sweet smelling puppies. Today they had their first car ride to the vet. All were great travellers and then when we got home I let they play outside for the first time. They were overwhelmed at first but soon enjoyed running around with Keely and Maddie.

Here are the photos of the boys. They all look so cute now!!

It was a beautiful day today so I had a few minutes to take some photos outside. These are our three precious little girls. I hope to get out again tomorrow and get the boys  done as well.

We have started to expose the puppies to the crate and they love to pile in and sleep. They are eating puppy food and drinking water and Keely is still nursing but for shorter periods. Next week we are off to the vet for their first check ups.