Aussie puppies ready to go

Already seven weeks old, time does fly by so fast!! We had a lovely time with these four, they are absolutely gorgeous, sweet little things and we are sad to see them go. But they have all found a nice home to go to and none of them will be alone, they will all have a friend to play with and nice people who will look after them and love them just as much as we do.

The first one to go is little Arielle, she's the smallest of them but also the cutest! (Iam crazy about tri merles lol) She won't go far, she will go to our vet so we'll be seeing a lot of her in the future!

The second one to go is Buzz, he will be named Djinny and will go and live with Régina and her australian cattle dog. Regina wants to learn him obedience and hopefully, if he's up to and she to of course, try and attend to some competitions. We are looking forward to hear about that!

The third one which will go to his new home is little Mowgli. He will go and live with nice people who always had border collies but sadly lost three of them in the last couple of months by sickness and age. They still have one left but she's totally blind so that will be an adjustement for her as well for little Mowgli, but we are confident that they will do okay and will become good friends.

And last but not the least, Tinkerbell will go next week to her new home. She will be staying a little longer with us. She will be spoiled rotten here with our kids of course...

I've been tagged!!!

So, I've never heard of it but since Nat tagged me and explained it so well on her blog
(open a document or file folder
Click on the fifth folder and then the fifth photo
Post the photo and describe it
Then tag 5 other bloggers)
I will try and do this to. Although the ones I will be tagging won't be English blogs, so let this game be spread around Belgium to LOL

So the folder I opened was Border collies (of course), fifth folder was Diabolo's and the fifth picture there was this one:


On this pic there's our little red merle girl Quiah (greatgrandaughter of Nat's Mac) and next to her runs Falck, our lovely chocolate sable boy. The picture was taken on a cloudy afternoon when the mist was hanging low to. Falck, as usual, has his ball in his mouth, Quiah running with him, not to take the ball but just to annoy him.

Now, let's think, five blogs to tag....
Here they are:
http://hereseysborders.blogspot.com/
http://www.dogblog.nl/Kitty
http://www.the-border-inn.be/blognl/#home
http://catch.catchmydreams.be/#home
http://www.happyborders.be/Nederlands/home_nederlands.htm

Not forgetting our own aussie puppies...

Our very own puppies are already ten days old. They are doing very well, and grow while we're looking at them! Tequila is a fantastic mum. The ears are starting to open now and we expect the eyes to open soon to, probably in the weekend. They are turning into real little dogs now. They weigh about half a kilo now, the weight a border collie puppy has by birth. :-)

Arielle:Buzz:

Mowgli:
Tinkerbell:

Puppynews...

I thought what a great idea to start the New Year with some good news.
A lot of puppies...eventhough it isn't all from our own kennel.
With Georgette at the Weimeniershoeve, there are 6 beautiful puppies born the 19th december. Dam is Gember and sire is our own XTC.
There are five boys and one girl. The girl already is spoken for, but there are a couple of boys still available. For more information you can always mail or call me, or see on (http://www.kerocs.be/weimeniershoeve/)
The little girl is a bluemerle tricolour, the boys have all sorts of colours, we have a black and white, two blue merles, a blue and white and a lilac merle, a true rainbow of colours of little border puppies...



Our XTC became a daddy again, yesterday, the 31th december. The proud mum is a littersister to our Ginger, Golden Girl, aka Snoopy, she has a lovely litter of seven beautiful puppies in the colours black and white, black tri and blue and white.
For more information you can always call or mail me or call the owners of Snoopy on this number: 0474/849721

Phoenix came for a visit two months ago to see his girlfriend Tequila and that has resulted into a big belly with our little girl. Last weekend we started temperaturing her, she was due the 20th December, so we were on time.The first time she had 37,5, but that night it was always around 37°C, which was quite low. The day after it even was 36,5, so we were expecting the puppies to come soon. As I didn't want to sleep the whole week in the sofa, we took Tequila with us in our bedroom, where we made her a nest to whelp in if necesarry, so I would wake up if something happened. But that was not how Tequila planned it, that whole week it stayed calm and quiet at night, until that morning of the 20th. She was shaking and shivering although it was quite warm in the house. That's when I new it wouldn't take very long for the puppies to come. I tried to keep her as much as possible to stay in her nest, but everytime I walked away to do stuff, she followed me. At this rate, it would take forever I thought and I hurried to finish all my chores so I could sit in the sofa and be woth Tequila. And yes, not half an hour later she started to move the sheets all around the nest and went in labour, finally! After a little hour or so, around half past nine, she started pushing, five minutes later a little chocolate tri boy was born! Another three followed soon, two black tri's, a boy and a girl, and one blue merle girl. Around 1 o'clock she had finished and we could start enjoying our little puppies.
What a nice christmaspresent Tequila gave us..
Here they are:

Little Mermaids Arielle:
Toy Story's Buzz:
Jungle Books Mowgli:
Peter Pan's Tinkerbell:

Iago can dance!!

We began to train Iago and Quiah a little bit at home, due to some healthproblems in our dogschool, which kept us from going there. Besides the basic commands (sit, lie down, stand,...) we also train him to dance. We started one week ago and I have to say, he's a quick learner! I'm so proud of this little chap!

Xtc has mated the blue merle bitch Gember van de Weimeniershoeve on 18 and 20 October and we got the confirmation this week, that Gember is in whelp! We expect these puppies around the 20th of December. The expected colours of these puppies are black/white, blue merle, chocolate/white and chocolate merle and also all of these with tan.

Georgette also let me know that she still has a lovely puppy available from her current litter from Dior and Bryning Leap in the Dark "Echo. The beautiful, powerful chocolate tri Echo is a littermate from our girl Skye and so these puppies are in fact a little bit of family to us ;-)

"Woef " december

Yesterday Martine called us, she was very excited, she got the new woef magazine in her mailbox en her article was published! I of course immediately went to the store but to my regret I had to go back today, the woef came out on fridays.

Our puppies and name is mentioned on at least three pages! In the article of the European Championship agility there's a photo of Liselotte with Bruse doing the weave, the second article is that of Martine and her family and their 6 dogs which all come from our kennel, and the third one, the one I am mostly excited about, is a picture of Bruse on the last page which I took by the way ;-) , where he announces the new woef of January, where the border collie will be the breed of the month. Will keep you all posted!

Here's the photo:

Quiet in the house...

All the puppies went to their new homes. Only our own girl Quiah and our new boy Iago make it quite 'noisy' around the house.
We have no puppies planned for the winter, Spice and C will be mated in the spring, and also Skye, when exactly will depend on when the ladies decide to come in season.
We thought of some stunning dogs for our girls, when we are sure of our plans, we will let it know here and on our site.
This week we also recieved some very good news, the hipscore of our girl Spice, she has an A², which we are very happy with! The only one that has to be tested is our C, which will happen in the next couple of months. Then all of our dogs are done, except for our two new youngsters, but that's for next year.

To the beach...

We went to the beach with the whole gang. The little ones stayed behind, too tiny to walk that far and the possibility to get trampled kept them at home.
It was sunny, we enjoyed it for as long as it lasted, and the dogs even enjoyed it more, as the pics prove it...

Our little fella

Here are some more pics of our handsome boy, taken over the weekend:

Dreams sometimes do come true...

After looking for quite some time (a few years) for the ideal Australian red border collie puppy, one of my dreams came true.

On Sunday, we went to a breeder colleague of border collies with our little ee red girl, and we could bring home our little furry ball. He is everything we've hoped for, he has a lovely character, beautiful head, nice coat, great built, in other words, he already stole our hearts!
His dam, brother and sister were there to and they are all very nice and beautiful dogs. His dad Zion we know as he had a litter with our girl Ginger.

We are very pleased with this little fella, thank you Carla, he's doing fine here, take care of our little girl to!

Here are some pics of him in his new home:

Saying goodbye to our puppies

It's time to say goodbye to our puppies. After being with us the last 8 weeks, they are now ready to go to their new homes. They had their vaccines, their chip, st-hubertus has come for a check up to get their pedigrees and also we had a visite from the daddy's with their owners.

Hurricane, Hailey Rose and High Hopes were the first ones to leave on tuesdays.

On wednesday, Marc came to pick Hawk Eye up

Thursdays Happy Heart went home

The day after, it was High Moons's and High Valley's turn


On saturday, Hot Coco left her brothers and sisters

We went to 'deliver' our baby girl Hot N Creamy to a collegue breeder on Sunday

Today they are coming to pick up Hanky Panky and then we have two more little rascals left here

Hoyden will go home the 8th november, her new owners are moving so she had to stay a bit longer, and Hocus Pocus will leave the week after to his new owner in the Netherlands

Then all that is left here is Quiah, all alone, well, not alone actually, but that I will tell you in a new message :-)

Veny - Girl Fever van 't Hof Diabolo

We 've heard from Kim, the owner of Veny, that on Saturday 12 July, they would try and go for their obedience license. We had loved to be there but unfortunately I had to work. Afterwards she emailed me to say they did an excellent job! They gained first place and that with a fabulous score of 100/100. A very big congratulation and carry on like this!