Socialize to storms. Check!

It wasn't exactly planned, but the puppies ended up experiencing their first storm.  Today I had to judge a WCX test so they were alone much of the day.  I got home and got them outside and it immediately started to rain.  Things didn't look too bad and I thought we were only in for a shower so we headed down to the barn.  We ended up being trapped there for over an hour!  First the bands of rain came though.  Torrential downpours one after another.  Did I mention the barn has a tin roof?  It was LOUD.  No one was bothered by it.  Then the thunder and lightening started.  I really would have rather been in the house for this part but there was no way to do that safely with 7 puppies, Jessi and myself.  So we stayed put.  Once again, no one was bothered....except for me a little bit when I saw the huge lightening strike followed almost immediately by the very loud thunder.  Finally things settled down and we were able to have a good play session outside.  We stayed out long enough for two naps!

Shortly after returning to the house, 5 members of the Houlton family came to visit.  The puppies were thrilled and put on a very good show of just how wonderful they are :)

There are tonnes of new photos from yesterday and today.  Enjoy!

Water!

On Friday I took the puppies on their first big road trip.  We went to Maxville and they were introduced to water.  What fun!  Mr. Blue was the first one to swim and Mr. White followed shortly after.  All of them waded and tried to get up their courage to follow Mom.  I took lots of photos...of course :)  And they are posted on Webshots.

Today we stayed home and they played in their puppy pool.  I took lots of photos of that as well but haven't had time to go through them. I did take some video though and have uploaded one to YouTube.  You will see that Mr. Black and Mr. Orange or very much their fathers sons - Trey does the same thing!

Enjoy!

Finally...an update!

A busy weekend followed by an even busier week kept me from the blog. I hope everyone has been following webshots though because I have uploaded many photos to their 5 week album and last night created a 6 week album.  6 weeks!  I can't believe they will start leaving in another two weeks.

They have continued to have a busy social life with many visitors and I have started letting them out with the adult dogs.  Their Aunt Jessi is fabulous with them.  She has just turned 10 months of age and instinctively knows how to play with them.  She has endless patience and they are learning a lot from her.  I uploaded a video of her playing with the puppies last night.  Enjoy!