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Archie arrives and "Get Down Tonight"

24/7/2015

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Archie arrived this morning for his couple weeks with us whilst his family go to France on holiday. Archie is from Smudge's first ever litter born in 2012, with Reggie being his Father.
Archie has come back and stayed with us twice before, since being with his family. He is a lovely gentle boy and was soon excepted back in to the pack. 
You have to be careful with a pack bringing dogs in to their home. This is not a couple dogs, but a pack of eleven adult dogs, so it is best to do a gradual introduction. Letting each dog become comfortable with Archie's presence and him being comfortable with them, before you let them run as a pack. 
Archie today has been a credit to Angie and her family, taking the stress of being in a different home and fitting in to a pack of dogs with very little fuss and seemingly causing him very little stress.

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Archie and me catching up with each other
It has been a very wet day here in North Devon, which is not so good when house training pups. Who wants to pee outside when it's piddling it down with rain. So we have had a few pee accidents with Blottie and Bumble, who had been pretty much clean since their siblings left last weekend. At thirteen weeks old today, at night they sleep with Mum Smudge in the kitchen and happily go from 11 pm to 5 am when one of us gets up for work (milking) without any accidents.

The video is from this morning when it was raining and Blottie and Bumble were in the puppy pen with Primrose's three Cavalier pups now six weeks and three days old. 
It has been a pretty dismal day here, being overcast and raining all day. So you cannot blame me for looking excited when my Birthday cake arrived (Yep, it was my Birthday today) and I "Do a little dance" caught on camera by our daughter Florrie.
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"Do a little dance" I get a little excited on the arrival of my cake, while Henry does his obligatory Birthday cake photobomb
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Angie
24/7/2015 03:24:11 pm

Look at our happy boy! Thank you for posting a picture of Archie so quickly Jane!
I am missing him already but it is brilliant to see him looking so relaxed and clearly in his element on your lap! Will he recognise you after all this time as his first human to nurture him?
Hope you had a great birthday and we love the pic of Henry peeking at the cake! He is a gorgeous boy too!
Many happy returns from all of us here and give Archie a hug from us!
Love from Angie and family xxx

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Stephanie
24/7/2015 03:41:34 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANE!
Shame about the weather.
I'm glad to see Henry keeping up the tradition of making an appearance with the birthday cake!

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Joan Armstrong
24/7/2015 04:00:09 pm

Happy Birthday Jane, hope you had a good one. Nice to see Henry guarding the cake again. xx

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Joan Armstrong
25/7/2015 01:31:14 am

Lovely video of Blottie and Bumble (love their names) with Primroses pups. We are making progress with my daughters dog (who is with us while Sarah is on holiday) accepting Alfie. She thinks she is top dog because she has stayed with us before. Because she was trained as a gun dog ( and failed) but is now a family pet, she doesn t play like most dogs, so she is finding it puzzling watching Alfie play. She has chastised him twice, which he has accepted, and he is now showing her good respect but still trying to get her to play. We have seen two breakthro's from lexy as she made some good play moves and she goes to him nose to nose now. Bed time has been fine as she is in a crate with a cover and Alfie is in a pen, both have settled well and Alfie goes through dry until 5.30 which is great. Like you we had a couple of pee mistakes yesterday due to the weather, but thats to be expected. I m just getting ready to take Alfie for his first puppy training class, he's the only pup today but the trainer has two older pups of her own so that should be interesting! I love keeping in touch like this and hope to learn lots more from your blogs. love Joan ps Alfies growing fast and getting very leggy. 7.6 kg today after he had his rabies vaccine. Still being a bit sick on journeys but am going to try ginger biscuit (home made) treatment before anything else.

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Laura
25/7/2015 02:10:47 am

A very happy birthday Jane. I hope you had a nice day.
Just to say, the sleep breakthrough with Daisy was scuppered by her working out how to climb out of her pen! That led to fun and games in the middle of the night! Anyway, she's in a brand new sturdy crate now and actually seems much happier in it.
Love to all the poundlane gang. Daisy had a cocker spaniel friend to visit yesterday and had a fab time running around in the pouring rain. It was her first proper doggy chase around since leaving you as she's quite cautious on walks and my mum's dog can't stand her!

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Emma Derrick
25/7/2015 10:55:25 am

Happy belated birthday Jane x

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Tracey George
26/7/2015 03:21:45 pm

Hi Jane - a belated happy birthday!!

Bertie is doing fantastically well - he too wasn't keen on going out in the rain on Friday so we tried putting the lead on and walking him into the garden and that worked well. He's going through the night from about 11.30 to 6 so really pleased with him.
We have a friend's cockerpoo coming to stay for 2 weeks and they met today and all went well. I'll send some pics soon.

Love hearing about his siblings - makes us feel part of the family!

Love Tracey xx

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