From Peggy Moorman & the Lily/Striker Puppies:
Yeah I know, I have wayyyyyyyy to much time on my hands. The puppies at 10-days-old dressed up for Halloween!
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Peggy Moorman Sends Puppy News:
Peggy has her first collie litter – all sables. The sire is Peggy’s CH Deep River’s Strike A Match & the dam is Peggy’s CH Deep River’s Easter Lily. The breakdown is 1 smooth girl, 4 smooth boys, 2 rough girls and 1 rough boy. Here are the babies at 5-days-old. [...]
CH Bo-Dandy’s Itsawig CD, RE, HSAsd, RFL1, HRD1, HTAD1 (Wiggy)
Wiggy completed her HSAd title on Fri. with 1st place, High Scoring on ducks and Reserve High in Trial! On Sat. & Sun., she earned Q’s in Intermediate ducks with a class 3rd place both days. Wiggy is co-owned with Nancy Parker.
Wiggy “holding” the ducks in [...]
News from Scarlet Mills, PA Herding Trials – Oct. 24-26
After our wonderful Maine visit, Pam & I headed south to meet our friend and herding trainer Claire Apple and our collie girls, Joy, Wiggy, Ariel & Valerie, in PA for 3 days of herding trials. Here’s how we did…
Joy earned her HSA cattle title with [...]
Show Wins from Marietta, GA – Oct. 23-26
CH Deep River’s Bow and Arrow was BOV at the three all-breed shows and one of the two specialty shows in Marietta, GA. Our blue rough male Bright, Deep River’s A Light >From Within, earned two major reserves and one 4 pt. major. Bright is co-owned by Sue [...]
Our Trip to Maine – Oct. 18-23
Pam Brown and I began our drive up to visit Maine on Sat., Oct.18. We arrived at the home of Kathy Weare in Wells on Oct. 19 to begin our visit with Kathy and with Jody Arsenault. Kathy has 3 champion collie girls from Deep River, and we delivered [...]
Advanced Rally for Joy & Ariel – New River Valley KC – Oct. 18 (2 trials)
Ariel – aka CH Deep River’s Consider the Source RA, PT earned her last Advanced qualifying score for her title with a 4th place. Joy – aka CH Deep River’s Comfort and Joy RN, HSAc, HXAsd, RFL1, HTAD3, HTD1, HRD3 [...]
Claire took these also when she took the photos of Hannah’s babies:
Cruz & Julie
Cruz
Below are the 7 Hannah/Yankee babies born Sept. 12, 2008. Photos taken Oct.13. Click to see larger images.
Julie will be leaving next week to go to her owner Anne Hartranft in Albany, NY.
Julie with her friend Mike Vaughan
Julie with her friend George Williams
Cruz @ the Match (Owner – Sue Chung) Cruz & Julie are 12-weeks-old. by CH Westwood Steele Dust x CH Deep River’s Consider Her Mine (co-bred with Mickie Elliott)
Cruz with his friend Mike Vaughan
Cruz & 2 of the 8 competitors in his class
Thorn, Cruz, Julie and I attended the match hosted every Oct. at the home of the Williams’ family. There was a very nice turnout of both collie and sheltie puppies. Bonnie Begle of Bo-Dandy Collies was the judge. Thorn won the 6 to 9 month puppy dog class. Cruz was second in a very beautiful [...]
Surprise! Surprise!
A casual look at both Canine Chronicle & Show Site stats revealed a wonderful surprise for us! Our Scout, CH Deep River’s Bow and Arrow, is ranked # 1 in breed points and # 1 in all-breed points so far for 2008, (as of Sept 30) according to both!
Yankee/Hannah Puppies pictured Sun., Sept. 28 at 16-days-old. Since they’re all sleeping, you can’t tell, but they’ve all opened their eyes! Heard a few barks, and they’re trying to totter around.
Claire Apple and her Deep River’s Let It Snow CGC, RL1 (Frost) did a Carting Demonstration at Chatham County’s 7th Annual Wolf-a-Paloosa on the Pittsboro Campus of Central Carolina Community College Satuday, Sept. 25. The demo attracted a crowd of around 75 spectators who were very surprised when Claire revealed that Frost is both deaf [...]