Black Diamond Toontown (Black) - Pet Male

Black Diamond Fast Track (Orange) - Pet Male

Cinder is on the road to recovery

Attached is a picture of cinder after her 4 1/2 hours of surgery to reconstruct her vulva, spay her and remove the extra urethra she had grown in her body - it was not fun trying to keep her quiet for 2 weeks - the drugs they gave us did not work and the cone of destruction just about killed all of us when she whacked us with it - we got the cone off today and the stitches were removed and the vet says everything looks great - hooray
~ Karen

First Toys

Have you seen our momma?

Above the puppies is a lid (so their bedroom is more like a den), which Jazz feels is the perfect place to lay and keep an eye on her children. So frequently we find all the babies sitting in their bed staring at the cealing in their box.

Jack's growing up!

Here is a picture of Jack they took at the Walk/Run for the animals we participated in . Isn't he just so pretty.


~ Stephanie

AKC names have been decided

In order to have the AKC papers ready to go when the puppies are, we are forced to come up with the baby's AKC names while they are quite small. Because of this, we aren't able to come up with names that necessarily match a puppies personality (seeing they are just starting to actually get personalities), so we choose a theme and go with it. These babies have a daddy named "Speed" and seeing they were born in the spring, we decided to go with a race horse theme (for everyone except for 'Mickie'-the two ear patched boy has his own custom made name).  At this point we only have the names assigned to a few of the pups, the rest we will assign as we microchip them. This litter will be known as:
Black Diamond Triple Crown
Black Diamond Front Runner
Black Diamond Mint Julep
Black Diamond Fast Track ('Superspot')
Black Diamond Sure Thing ('Nice spotted male')
Black Diamond Trifecta
Black Diamond Run For The Roses ('Heavily spotted girl')
Black Diamond Toontown ('Mickie')
Next weekend I'll be going to Tri-Cities to purchase their colored collars and we'll do their first set of individual photos.

First Dog Beds

The babies discovered the comfort of dog beds today. It's funny to see how tiny they are on the beds that they will someday cover with their bodies.

Wild & Free

Today was the puppies first time "running" free in our home. All of them had a good time exploring and lasted about a half hour; before we knew it there were sleeping puppies all over the place.

First solid meal

Alls Well

All is well with the puppies tonight. They are doing well getting to know their new box. Most of them are sleeping in the 'bedroom' area (shown) and are actually going out to the 'potty room' area when they need to go to the bathroom. Potty training can be  easy when you set them up for success - even if your potty training 8 all at once!

First drink

The puppies have now graduated to their 'puppy box' which gives them much more room to walk, play and they can start learning potty training. They also received their first experience with a water bowl, which always takes them a couple of weeks to figure out the bowl is to drink from and not to walk in!

Afternoon sun

The eyes have it!

Eye's are starting to open today. This little girl has her's open the most, but soon everyone will catch up to her. This girl also has the least amount of nose trim, but there are lots of little black spots on her leather, so we're thinking it will make it.

Lunch time for everyone

I'm at home today, so I was able to take this video and then go straight to my computer to upload it - so this one is 'real time'. :)  The sun was shining into the window just right that I'm thinking you might be able to see some of the spotting in this video. We have one boy who is going to be VERY HEAVILY spotted and at least a couple of the girls who look they are going to have extremely nice spotting (so we have a full scale of spotting in this litter!).

Spots

The puppies spots are just starting to come through - we have to hold them up to the light and get them 'just right' to see them. Sorry but I don't think they will show up in photos yet, couple more days...

Belated video update

As soon as I got home I took this video to share with everyone. They sure have grown since I saw them last!!

JR Earns His First Point!

Today in Lewiston Idaho, JR won Best of Winners and earned his first point under the famouse Mr. Edd Bivin. Unfortnatly the camera's battery died within just a couple of seconds of being turned on, so I don't have a video clip or photo to share.

First photo

I made it home safely at about 6:30pm tonight. It was great to see Jazz and her babies. Everyone is doing well today. All babies are nursing well and Adrian says every one of them were very strong right from birth and didn't need any help nursing. Typical for Jazz, she's eating, drinking well and doesn't want to leave the babies at all. Jazz is like that the first week or so with her pups - but by week three we have to practically force her to get into the whelping box.

Puppies, puppies, puppies!!!

We now have 8 new, beautiful babies at our home!! I'm in Spokane at the moment, so Adrian has been texting me all day long to keep me posted. There are 5 girls and 3 boys. One boy is a double ear patch and Adrian believes all 8 puppies are black spotted. Adrian had his hands full and wasn't able to take photos that we can post to the blog, but I'll get home tomorrow evening and will be sure to get photos on the blog ASAP. So CONGRATULATIONS to all of you new parents who are on the wait list for this litter - your a new parent!!!

Jazz's x-ray

We are sure there are at least 8 puppies, possibly 9 that will be arriving sometime the end of next week. Too bad we can't see sex or color!

Jazz's new shape - watermellon!

Jazz "Before"

Jazz Tonight

Video footage

This week we received a great envelope which contained a DVD from January. This was the day that Bow finished his Champion Title, Romeo won Best Of Breed and Willow was Select Bitch. It is amazing to get such great video footage of such an amazing day. Bow is being handled by our good friend Pam in this video; I (Debbie) am handing Romeo and Adrian handled Willow.

Jazz's date set

Jazz's X-ray has been scheduled for Friday this week. During the x-ray we will be able to count spines and heads to see how many puppies we can expect... we're just a little over a week out from PUPPY TIME!! Typically I'm able to talk the vet into giving me a copy of the x-ray so I can post it on the blog, so hopefully by Friday you'll be able to see the babies too! Check back soon...

Romeo saved the day!

 Today I hosted a Showmanship workshop for the local 4H kids and then a Handling workshop for adults followed. The day started off a little rough as one of the 4H kids ended up crying the whole time she was in the ring. Her nice family dog was very scared of the show ring, judge and other kids with their dogs. At one point the poor girl was dragged across the entire ring as if she was on skies behind a sled dog! Romeo to the rescue!!! I had brought Romeo with me so we could practice a little during the adult section, but he had a much more important task today; making this young ladies day! At first she didn't want to use Romeo seeing he was quite a bit bigger than her dog, but a little convincing and watching me take him around the ring once did the trick and before we knew it she was HOOKED!! Getting to practice with a dog who didn't pull her around the ring, stood for the judge to examine and who knew what they were supposed to be doing, did wonders for her self esteem. She tried to convince her mother that they should just keep Romeo and she'll show him from now on. :)  We were thrilled that she ended the day all smiles and having fun.

JR and His Girl

JR sitting on top of his girl, Sky. This is an every night thing in our home!

Yoshi report

 Yoshi has added so much to our little family. She's blended into the zoo at our house and loves her big sisters, Indy (our Weim) and Kairi (our Husky). She is a ball of energy most of the time. We've all decided she's especially cute when she's alseep. She not super excited about visiting the vet and seems sort of tender afterwards. She's also gotten carsick a couple of times (thankfully in Rich's truck!). She's still pretty small, just over 30 lbs. But, she holds her own. And, she could eat constantly.
Her absolute favorite thing to do, besides sleep next her dad and go for walks every day, is to lounge on the back of the loveseat and spy on the neighborhood. Rich is a complete pushover and has promised me a new loveseat when the time comes. He just can't say "no" to his baby girl.  ~ April

Keeping Cinder Busy

I just bought cinder a new toy called a puzzle toy you put treats inside and then she has to figure out how to get them the last one I bought she played with for hours and then she collapsed to sleep got a couple of hours.  ~ Karen

Hunter's looking good

Hunter is from our Romeo x Izza 2010 litter

He is amazing and so much fun to have around.

 ~ Deanna

Jasper's Day In Town

Jasper is from our Romeo x Izza litter born October 2010

We stopped at the vet's office for a couple of minutes.  He weighed in at 54 lbs.  He is really getting to be a big boy.  So much for the cute cuddly puppy that he was just a couple of months ago.  We then made a stop at the quilt shop so the girls could see how big he has gotten and so he could say hello to Reana, the yellow lab of the owner.  Truth be known he likes to steal Reana's treats every chance he can.  They couldn't play on the lawn today, as they had just finished spraying for weeds & moss. Cindy who works there just loves Jasper and is always asking to see him.  He knows that Cindy will give him treats, but she always asks Mom if he can have one first.    So just a short visit today and then back up the hill to home. ~ Ann

Babies on the way

Today was another first for Black Diamond Dalmatians ~ at 4:00pm this afternoon we did a pregnancy ultrasound on Jazz. It has been 30 days since Jazz was surgically implanted, which is the date the reproductive specialist in Grass Valley, CA told us we should have her checked for pregnancy status.  The good news is that Jazz is pregnant and the vet definitely saw at least 3 puppies. The bad news is that our Ortho/Trama vet isn't very skilled with the ultrasound machine and couldn't give us a rough count of puppies, nor could he find the heart beat on the 3 pups that were obvious. So it looks like we'll still need to do an x-ray a week before she is due to get a better head count. At least now I'll be able to convince Adrian to begin construction on a new puppy box! :)

Worn out Cinder

 What a hoot she found my new chair to take a nap on after her puppy lessons and 2 mile hike. ~ Karen

Riley sleeping with cinder

JR Runs with the big dogs

JR has ridden around on the 4 wheeler many times, but he's never been big enough to run beside it very far. He's 5 months old now, so today he went with the big dogs for their run. The big dogs did 9 miles today and JR did about 1 1/2 miles. He road on the 4 wheeler, sitting behind me until we reached the wheat fields, then I put him down to run with the big dogs. He's run for a minute or so, then come back over to me and ask me to let him up again, he'd ride for a few minutes, ketch his breath, then ask to get back down.  He did very well and had a great time. The last 3 miles he layed on the back of the 4 wheeler and slept until we got home.

Bow and Lilly Reunite

Bow is doing great. He is a great runner. I love having him run with me. He keeps me going on my longer runs. You are correct in that he loves his toys and especially balls. He is chomping on one right now and making it squeak. But when he sees anyone at the park playing baseball or soccer, he wants their ball. I think he really enjoys having a doggie door. It works out great when we are at work. But no matter how tired I am when I get home from work, he is ready to go. That is okay. He gets me out the door and then it is fun to run or walk with him. We had something exciting happen on our walk today. Bow saw Lilly. A man pulled over in his van and asked me if my dog's name was Bow. It was Jeff who got Lilly from you. He had Lilly with him and Bow and Lilly really enjoyed saying hi to each other. He works in Vancouver at times and just happened to be driving by and stopped to say hi. What a small world and it sure was neat to talk with him and let the dogs see each other.

Bow has really fit into our family well. We are so happy that we made him part of our family. ~Cindy



Obedience & Rally workshop

Today Izza and I spent the day at the Walla Walla Kennel Club Obedience and Rally workshop. I learned several great new training tips that will help improve our future obedience endeavors. It was a great turn out and everyone seemed to have fun. The above photo was Izza and I "center stage" practicing a technique the instructor was teaching us.

Romeo's a Grandfather!!!

This photo is of Bella, mom of 10 new babies. Their daddy is Chaplin, who is Romeo's son from his 2nd litter. Bella, the babies and Chaplin live in Southern California.

Lilly's song

Hi debbie Lilly is doing great and is fitting in great with the family.I don't know if any of your other dals do this but we kept hearing strange noises from time to time while she was playing with her toys and now we know what it is lol (see attached video) thanks again. ~ Jeff

Chip hits the beach

 Chip likes the beach, but you should have seen him run when the ocean wave rolled in and got his foot wet.  Guess he thought he was about to get a bath. It was beautiful down here - 85 and sunny and not too humid. Great day for the beach, which is where we went for the afternoon.


 ~ Homer

(Chip now travels the USA and Canada with my parent's, in their motorhome).

Cinder's Puppy Class

Jack in the sun

This picture is from our morning walk the other day. It was beautiful and sunny!


~ Stephanie

Weekend trip

This weekend Jazz and I took a little drive, down to Grass Valley California (just across the state line from Reno). We decided to breed Jazz one last time (she's 6 yrs old now). The male we have chosen is traveling the nation pursuing his show career, so for the first time at Black Diamond Dals we did a Surgical Implant A.I.  Seeing we live in the boonies, we had to drive to a location that has a reproductive specialist, so we decided to drive down to California to the one the male dog's owner has used several times with great success. Jazz and I drove down on Friday, Saturday morning she had surgery, we then got back in the van and drove home, arriving at 3:30am Sunday morning (thanks to the weather and roads). This photo was in Southern Oregon on Friday, click on the photo so it gets bigger and you'll see some of the approximately 200 antelope that were in this location (Jazz is in the lower right hand side of the photo).

Wet Jack

Hi Deb

Just had to send you this picture. Yesterday is was raining so hard that he had to come and snuggle under the blankets with me after our walk. My Dalmatian "lap dog" doesn't quite fit in my lap anymore. :)
Stephanie

Happy Valentines Day from Samantha & Olive

Dear Deb, Adrian, and all the Dals,

Olive and I wanted to send you all some Valentine's Day love, and share a picture of the perfectly heart-shaped spot on her hip. She has another one on her shoulder, but the one on her hip almost looks like a tattoo it's so perfect.

Mom, Dad, Ringo and Mozart are driving back from New Mexico right now, and the puppies should have a reunion sometime late tomorrow afternoon. We'll send you pictures then of the cute spottiness.

Hope all is well! Izza's Lotto pictures are wonderful. I'd definitely buy a ticket if I lived in Oregon.
~Samantha and Olive

JR's first time in the BIG Dog Park

 Jr got to see the dog park the day his brother Hunter went to his new home, but the two boys only got to play in the 'little dog' area and sniff the big dogs through the fence line. Today Jr graduated to the Big section, and boy did he enjoy it! There was a 5 month old Bassett hound puppy, a wolf, great Dane, Newfie and lots of mixed dogs. When we arrived there was close to 30 dogs in the park, but he did a great job meeting and greeting each of them. He clearly had some favorites, but found each and everyone of them interesting.

News from New Hampshire

Ti is doing well and has been joining me on my snowshoe excursions this winter. I've taken him up a small mountain (1200ft elevation gain) a couple of times but we mostly go on flat to rolling terrain. He enjoys it and it's great exercise in freshly fallen snow. We have gone through a ton of Musher's Secret. I put bag balm on his paws afterward and it has worked out very well. He's only had one cut so far and it wasn't serious.

Hotel Sutor

 Last night we had 3 house guests. A GSP, Brittney Spaniel and a 10 month old Newfie/lab mix. All three dogs were being sent from a rescue in Salt Lake City to Seattle where they would be heading to their new homes. The trip requires the dogs to be in a vehicle for 2 days, so they really enjoyed their stay at Hotel Sutor where they got to run and play in our backyard, then when we got to cold to stay outside any longer they continued the fun indoors. Most of our dogs tolerated their presents, but JR thought it was Christmas! The GSP in particular, was fantastic about playing with him and put up with being bit with puppy teeth every time he stopped playing. JR was very good about sharing his toys with our house guests.

Adrian really enjoyed the GSP Davie; Davie seemed to like Adrian pretty well too!

JR's 4 mth Birthday photos

 We spent the day having fun with the boy today. First we went to L&G in Walla Walla where he met lots of excited people, then to handling class (JR is enrolled into an obedience handling class for socialization) and then we went to the park where we snapped these photos while he was having a good time hunting rabbits. It was a fun and long day for a 4 month old.

Photos arrived

 Our photos from January 20th arrived today. These are of Bow after winning his final point for his Champion title and Romeo won Best of Breed the same day. Bow is one of Romeo's sons and is 1 1/2 years old. We're very proud of both of these boys!