One gone, ? to go!

Well, one of the puppies has gone to her new home, three are set to go next weekend. Now all we need to do is decide how many of these cute babies we're keeping and find a home for the ones we don't want to keep for showing.
It's all fun, watching the puppies as they trot around the back yard, discovering new things and trying out their hunting skills on bugs, birds, each other. I know which pups will make the best show prospects (well, I think I do, I'm not the show judge though, am I? I'm only the backyard judge!) We're keeping at least one girl.
Do we want/need to keep a male schnauzer? Well, the big pepper and salt boy is such a good looking boy, it's hard to look past him really. I'm sure we can find a way to peacefully have three intact male dogs here. Well, 'sure' is perhaps not the right word. I 'think' we can, would be more correct, or maybe I 'hope' we can! If we can find a show home for him then that's the issue solved.
Anyway, that's what I've been thinking about lately as I watch these schnauzer puppies. It's all good fun!

Eyes wide open

Well, wide open is pushing it, but puppies have their eyes open a little bit as of yesterday. Some of them have eyes open a lot - the two black babes do, the little pepper & salt boy hardly open at all. This means it's weaning time!

This is always fun - how much mess will they make? Will they walk all through the food? Will I end up wearing the vast majority of the food? Will they take to the food as well as the Pharaoh Hound babies did earlier this year?

I'll report of the process in a later blog. We feed Purina Pro Plan, and that is what the Pharaoh babes took to so quickly - was it the food? Was it because they were Pharaoh babes, not Schnauzer babes? We'll see.