Our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retiever puppies are now 5 weeks old and beginning to venture to see what fun they can find and what mischief they can cause!

Hi Philip and Amanda

Everything is going fine with Bryn. Absolutely no problem with toilet training him, he was virtually trained straight away. He is definitely a very intelligent dog who is taking up most of our time at the moment. He loves larger dogs and gets on with everybody, human or animal. He travels well in the car and has just returned from a holiday at my parents in Guernsey. The crossing was really rough but as usual he wasn’t phased by the journey. Attached are a few photographs that you might like to see and put on your blog if you so choose. He is not interested in getting in the water yet!

Hope all is well with your family.

Best Wishes & Regards

Dave and Anne Rouget

Come take a look! See what cute bundles of fluff we are, only just 2 weeks old, eyes open and very healthy.

All of the puppies now have their eyes open and are beginning to focus. They are all strong, getting around their whelping box  investigating their living quarters.

Bear and her puppies have thrived so much in the first week, Bear looks extremely well and is a very content mother. The puppies continue to keep their dark colour and pigmentation is starting to show.

On Saturday the 26th July at 19.15 Bear went into labour, by 19.26 we had out first puppy. The next 3 were closely followed all easy births and healthy. After nearly an hours wait she produced her 5th and final puppy. Both bear and puppies are doing extremely well. Some puppies have white markings and a good deep colour.

The puppies were then weighed and sexed, they were a nice even weight throughout the litter and the final count were 4 bitches and 1 dog.

You can view the High Res photo’s at our FlickR Photostream here.

Welcome to Sophie and Kiara’s diary.

Hello my name is Sophie and I’m 14 years old and have recently acquired my first gun dog which is a yellow labrador retriever named Kiara. She is a dark yellow bitch which is why i called her Kiara as this means dark and is also a very pretty name.

I got Kiara from Gill Bell in Lincolnshire, Gill had given Kiara the best start in life as she’s fazed by nothing, very loving and socialable. Kiara’s kennel name is Toprosell Chestnut, her father is Field Trial Champion Boltonabbey Remus and her mother is Brunbois Alice Go Lightly owned by Gill and is better known as Kelly.

Here are some photos taking in our first few days.

As always the weights have been fairly even through out this litter how ever there has only ever been one contender for heaver weight!

Even though the weights vary the puppies are very similar size’s and look no different in comparison.

I’m sure there new owners are getting very excited as that special day creeps forward to taken there new found friends home and we do hope they will keep us all up to date with all the little mishaps whether in be good news or bad.

So fingers crossed we will all be able to watch this fantastic litter grow here on the blog.

As we approach 7 weeks of age, we are quickly changing shape and personality. From being very sleepy to bundles of fun.