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.