Puppy Activities at 5 1/2 weeks

The puppies go outside every day into our puppy yard where they climb on Mattel children's toys!  They go up and down puppy dog walks, the puppy teeter totter, they hide in an Igloo dog house, chase each other,  go down a baby slide, play with toys, chew sticks, climb steps, run down a ramp, and climb into our laps for cuddles and kisses! They hear loud noises ( tractors and heavy farming trucks) and respond to them.  Each day I see them becoming more adventurous and inquisitive and more confident.
They do come running when I give them the puppy call like a kissy sound. They dash towards me! It is so cute.

 When they are seven weeks old, they will have their micro-chips inserted and their BAER testing done. They will all be working dog tested at day 49 to see who is most predisposed to chase toys  or retrieve or to shake a toy or to have the perseverance to continue to get what they want. I find this a valuable tool in determining which dogs are most likely to want to work with their humans. Very important  quality in an obedience dog or agility dog or the conformation dog.

Their little muscles are getting stronger and by next week they ought to be able to climb up a step. This week they are still too young to do so. They try, but they can't quite do it. Steps must look like  a cliff face to them!

I am enjoying them immensely. Brook, their dam,  is finding them less adorable. She is getting pretty close to refusing to nurse them after they eat their puppy mix. They have canines and they hurt!

5 week old male ( brown collar)

5 week old male ( red/yellow rings)

Three show potential females 5 weeks old

Patched male 5 weeks old

Green collared male puppy 5 weeks old

5 week old male (purple collar)

5 week old male ( red collar) Y B G R rings

CH. London's Stamford Brook and BISS GR CH. Bret D Gabriel's Lost Art RN

4 week old litter of Ch. London's Stamford Brook OA OAJ and BISS GR CH. Bret D Gabriel's Lost Art RN

London Farms Dalmatians

Len and I have been show and performance breeders of the London Dalmatians since 1972 when we had our first Champion Dal. Our dogs are based on the well respected  Watseka Dalmatians of Don and Carol Schubert. From our first litter we titled two brothers:  one Champion dal and one Companion Dog (CD). We were hooked! Since then I train our dals in a variety of venues: conformation, obedience, tracking, carting, agility, and rally. Our last litter was in 2005 and I have spent the last 6 years training the two we kept to their potential. Ch. London's Foggy Mist CD  CDX RE CC was #1 in Top Spots for her CD and her CDX. She is now trained in Utility. Her litter sister, Ch.  London's Stamford Brook NAF NA NAJ OA OAJ  also has legs in Excellent in agility. She is the dam of the litter we now have that was whelped April 18, 2011.  She was bred to BISS GRChampion Bret D Gabriel's Lost Art  RN who in May 2011 was BOB at the DCA National Specialty.