All About Eve!

A belated welcome to the new Seahaven addition Eve (Seahaven Parish Bell), one of Tilly's babies, with Red (Beausjour Eighth Henry) as dad. 

Eve has certainly made her presence felt, and integrated well into the family, this has obviously been made easier as she was born here and hasn't had to contend with a change in her home environment.  Trio is her best buddy and are often found together with Eve chewing various body parts of Trio!

She has had a few outings this week to introduce her to the car and other different situations which will become part of normal every day life in the future.  Two favourites have been taking her to pick Eleanor up from the school orchestra, and choir this week where she has enjoyed getting lots of attention from Eleanors school friends.

Eve send lots of lovely licks and kisses to her brothers and sisters who are settling into their new homes well.

Seahaven Gloriana AKA Bron arrives in Carmarthenshire

Our long awaited Toller pup arrived home last week from Donna & Sean! We are just soooo thrilled to have her and very pleased to have a Tilly & Red baby join our pack. Thank you so much for the first class care and doing such a fantastic job bringing these pups up.

Bron settled in immediately with our doggy gang, although she deprived us of much sleep for a large part of the first week.....She has a little pup friend to wrestle with and bash up in the form of Ty a rescue staffie pup we are fostering, he is 8 weeks old now and has been here for 4 weeks, he was teeny weeny when he arrived (about the size of a tin of beans) but he is doing well and him and Bron are enjoying each others company.

Bron and Ty have been out and about this week meeting new people and other dogs socialising and travelling about in the van. Today they met lots of dogs, big and small and two other puppies as part of a training exercise I was helping out with along with 3 of my other dogs Nell, Dizzy and Jim and a customers dog Frieda. I took the pups along to have a little play afterwards and they loved all the attention from everyone.

Bron has been really good with house training so far, always going for a tiddle and a poop in the garden and often asking to go out by hovvering at the door. She is most definately a thinker. She is very fast at the door too and as quick as lightening to whip through the door so we have to watch her closely. This little fluffy is really afraid of missing something.

Busy Weekend

Tasha being awarded 1st for the Junior Handling

 

Had a great time catching up with Gerald & Dawn (& Cooper), Jane (Jim & Frieda) and our family at Little Haven.  The rain managed to hold off until the dogs had had a decent run around, and all got on famously considering that many of them hadn't met before.  It was lovely to see how Cooper is developing, D & G you're doing a great job!

Off to Cardiff on Sunday for a Show, haven't been out for a while so it did the dogs and the girls good to have some practice.  Out of a strong class of junior handlers, Tasha had a 1st and Eleanor a 3rd, placings that they were both delighted with (and of course we were!).  Eleanor has really grown in confidence and coped well with Maddie who can be a little headstrong at times.  Tasha was thrilled to have her photo taken with the judge and it is hoped that it will make it into a future addition of 'Our Dogs'.

So a very pleasant and enjoyable weekend and a great start to the showing year, just need to keep it up girls!

Happy First Birthday - Celtic Litter

I really don't know where the year has gone, and I'm sure the owners of this fabulous lot will agree.

This is the litter from Maddie (Paddockridge  Madelaine at Seahaven) and Darcy (Blitzan Eternal Chaos).  Again Maddie has produced some great examples of the breed (& Darcy had something to do with it as well), and all have fantastic Munster characters.  We have had some lovely updates over the course of the year and have managed to meet up with some of them at shows during 2012.  Four puppies have been shown at Champ level this year and three have qualified for Crufts 2013.  So S. Celtic Commander, S. Celtic Seren and S. Celtic Psalm will be heading to the NEC in March for a family reunion.  Megan (S. Celtic Cariad) was unfortunate to not qualify as she found herself in a huge class at Richmond (her only show) with some very experienced puppies and handlers.  She did however have a great time in the ring, thoroughly enjoying herself a little bit more than she should have!  Keep perservering Hazel, she's worth it!!

One of the litter is destined for the obedience ring, S. Celtic Commander and Jess has been doing soem excellent work with this character of a boy. 

Sadly one of the puppies came back to us due to a change is circumstances, but he has gone to live with his big brother (Trio's brother) in Chester.  He has settled in well and is a much loved new addition to the household.  All of the puppies have settled and are well adjusted adolescents now, well as well adjusted as munster adoloscents can be.

Hope that you all have a wonderful day, and continue to have fun with these fab young dogs!  Do keep us posted.


Rookie (Batty), Megan (Annie), Fae (Spot), Louis (Alfie), Max (Max), Travis (Splodge)

Louis

 

Fae

 

 

 

 

Rookie, then Max below.

Megan above, Travis below.

Snow!!

 Well the snow arrived, the children were disappointed as the schools have stayed open.  The dogs have really enjoyed the snow and love running around and rolling in it.  Maddie has been perfecting her technique of making snow balls and I think that she might be a big help if the children decide to build a snowman later.

The Munsters enjoying the snow



Maddie making snow balls

Goodwick Beach

Maddie enjoying a run and swim on Goodwick beach this week.  They all love running across the beach and jumping over or through the breakwaters!  Sadly our club agility show has been postponed from this weekend to a date now in March, this would have been our first outing for a while.  The winter seems to be dragging on at the moment, although the children are looking forward to the prospect of snow tomorrow!  I'm sure that the dogs will enjoy as well!

And a Happy New Year!

Well we are well and truly into the new year now!  It has been a great break for us as a family, but sadly the weather hasn't quite been what we might of wished for! 

Today has been the first dry day that I can remember, the ground is still very wet and all walks are muddy walks, not that the dogs or children mind in the least.  As the weather has been so poor and the rivers flowing a bit too fast for my liking most of the walks have been on the beach over the Christmas period.  Today as the river levels had dropped we took the dogs down to Sealyham, a favourite walk for all of us, and one that was enjoyed as they haven't been down there for a while.  They got very muddy, Trio even found something delicious to roll in, but we ended with a paddle in the river to clean off!