05/06/2026
Good evening all our family and friends!!
We have almost finished up with our after litter exhaustion. I ended up with so much stress from the overload of work of puppies and adult dogs that I had come down with shingles and am not even quite 50 yet. So please bear with me on the next waitlist. I assure everyone I’m not this slow at responding usually. I also have been in the process of saying goodbye to the last of the two adults we placed this last weekend and am trying to get our home and dogs still here back into a normal routine.
This month and last was harder than any I’ve ever dealt with before since we did place two adult dogs and that’s not something I’ve ever done before. As most of you know, my whole life revolves around my dogs and to say goodbye to two of them that I’ve had for 3-6 years was super hard to do. I know I made the right decision and don’t regret it, but going from 4 adults and 2 puppies down to 2 adults and 2 puppies is quite a change to adapt too. I’ve decided I’m going to contact everyone on our waitlist still and share our new revised contract with after it gets looked at by those who tell me if it’s valid or not and once approved, will send it your way. It’s still the same contract but I’ve added just a few tiny things to it. Im not going to collect deposits until after the female has been bred and will immediately following that first breeding. That should occur in June/July. Puppies will be arriving in estimated August/Sept and leave in Oct/Nov. I promise I haven’t forgotten about all of you and me doing all this now is going to make it to where I have more time in the next litter we have. This last litter was the most difficult I’ve had in terms of the amount of contacts I had via messenger, phone calls, emails, texts, etc. I was contacted and called 24/7 and didn’t get much sleep. I spoke to thousands of people and all while trying to care for the 10 puppies in our home and our 5 adults, while also working a part time job. So now I’m still playing catch up and trying to get things in order for the next litter to be smoother sailing than the last one.
For those wondering Kami did pass her prelims with flying colors and eyes, heart, hips, elbows, and patella’s are all good with no breeder notes attached to eyes. She will still need to undergo her finals in December on hips/elbows before she’s able to be bred next year. She also was clear on every genetic test completed and not a carrier of anything. When I took her to the clinic all the people there, mostly all veteran golden breeders and handlers were telling me how gorgeous/breed standard she was and I can’t tell you how proud that made me feel with being new to handling myself and her being my first full show prospect bred to date, with that intention in mind. So many asked me which kennel I got her from and it felt great to say my own for once.
I hope all our puppies that just left, and all the ones before are doing great at their homes. I know Lyric is super smart but super ornery at the same time. But that’s expected in the puppy months/years. But the poor girl has been going through seeing all her littermates and two adult playmates leave so I’m sure that can cause disruption as well. This is the first week with our new norm and things are settling in better than I could have expected. We will soon sign her up for classes and continue to socialize her in public. She just got her 3rd series of vaccines and I’m a little more confident taking her in public more. But still not 100% confident until all vaccines are given which will be at the end of the month.
Here’s some pictures of the girls and I hope you all are having a wonderful week so far.
