Elbereth Finnish Lapphunds

Showing posts with label whelping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whelping. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Tullu Puppies at two weeks

Ahh well definitely need to invite Pia around to get some decent pictures of the puppies!!!  In artificial light and needing flash its just not easy to get the colours looking right - in fact they all look wet!

As  a contented litter feeding well they are pretty heavy at week two - all around the 1kg mark and now they are in the bigger pen they are trying to "stagger" about more!
(Don't forget if you click on the pictures you can see the bigger versions)

Lightening

The biggest girl - who is paling fast, with a face marking pattern developing similar to her mum and dad, starting to camouflage the white smudge centrally placed on her nose.  She is named for the long zig-zag of white from her chin to her tummy.  Her wolfie colouring is now spreading.
finnish lapphund puppy from Elbereth Matkamies x Shacal Reilu Peli

  Tanny

The most compact of the litter, and with the least white, she has a tan strip across her chest with only the tips of her hind feet dipped in white.  Her face markings are broadening along with pal spectacles.  She looks to be a wolf sable - but is still quite dark in body.

Triangle

Has a large white bib - triangular in shape, and white tips to all feet.  Another wolf sable whose colouring is changing daily.

Creamy

OK so hardly the most original name, but when whelping the pups I quickly weigh each as born and note any distinguishing marks, and this boy stood out for his obvious cream coat.  He is deceptive as lying in the pen looks to be the biggest, but maybe that's a illusion of his colour.  He certainly has a very broad head, with a noticeable small white blaze.

  Dot Com

Has a white bib, and then on his tummy a small white "dot".  Joint heaviest in the litter he already has the look of a boy.  Another wolfie whose face marking are developing.

 Diamond

Is the only tricolour of the litter, with her very noticeable face making and white smudge on her nose, and thin white blaze, she has white socks on all her feet.  Named for the black shaped mark on her extensive white bib that runs from chin to tummy.


Lightening & Creamy have a cuddle

Puppy Pie

Friday, 24 January 2014

New Babies

Well Tullu (Shacal Reilu Peli) has gone and surprised us all with a lovely quick daytime delivery of six bonnie puppies.  Dad being Multi Ch Elbereth Matkamies ShCM.

The jury is out on the colours but looks like we have three wolf sable girls, a black & tan girl, a wolf sable boy and a cream boy.

Tullu is a doting mum, so photos are not great, but  here they are:

"Lightening"(wolf sable )

 "Tanny" (black & tan ♀)
 "Triangle"(wolf sable )


"Creamy" (cream ♂)

Cream Finnish Lapphund Puppy

 "dot.com" (wolf sable )


 
 
"Diamond" (tricolour )

 
Tullu very pleased with herself
 

 


Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Puppies have names

The puppies now have names!  I like to include the new families in the choosing of their pup's name - so sometimes the names take a while to be agreed as we wait for the pups to grow and each family to choose, then there are the tense days waiting to see if the KC will approve them, so here they are "officially".


 Friday - aka Elbereth Matti

Matti is a traditional boy's name - and very apt at Matti Takkanen has been very big influence on my breeding programme!
Friday - aka Elbereth Matti

 Saturday - aka Elbereth Helmi 

Helmi means pearl, and she will be a little pearl in the Jones household where she is staying with mum Tiia
Saturday - aka Elbereth Helmi 

 Sunday - aka Elbereth Pikkuinen

Or Pikku for short - Pikkuinen means little one - and she has gone to live with uncle Teemu, Tiia's brother
Sunday - aka Elbereth Pikkuinen

 Monday - aka Elbereth Maanantain Otso

Meet Monday's bear, Otso for short, who is now the first Finnish Lapphund on Guernsey

Monday - aka Elbereth Maanantain Otso

 Tuesday - aka Elbereth Valkotassu

Named for his large white paw, he will be Tassu to his friends
Tuesday - aka Elbereth Valkotassu
 All the puppies are now settled in their new homes, we know they will bring great joy.





Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Summer Puppies - fingers crossed

Elbereth Tiia
Exciting news today - Elbereth Tiia is in whelp to E Matkamies and puppies due possibly around 1st August.  Tiia is a lovely girl, from an exciting mating of E Taru at Pavoskas to Multi Ch Lumiturpa Otso and Matka's first litter are already showing great promise in the show ring and at home as loveable companions.

Tiia has only been shown lightly but has many wins including RBB at the Southern Finnish Lapphund Society shows in 2011 and 2012.

"Sam the scan" says five puppies! 




 

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Sunday, 17 June 2012

Two weeks already


finnish lapphund puppies (Penikka and Matka)
annotated group sh
This week has seen the pups open their eyes, such a big occasion, Phillip sent me a text whilst I was at work to say that some were peeping at him.  Now they all have eyes wide open and this heralds the start of interaction.  They have already started to "play" with each other, which involves gumming each other, and falling over in the process.  They have even tried out the Royal Canin Mousse, which they love, though think they wear more of it than actually eat - but Penikka then has an incentive to get them spotless again!

After a good meal at the milk bar they settle down for a well earned snooze so I cheekily rearranged them to get the above shot.

Some not so great pictures - the lighting does not help show off their colours, hope to have a better photographer next week (thx Pia)
 
Yksi
 Kaksi

Kolmi
Neljä

Viisi

Kuusi

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