We are happy to announce that we have bred Violet to a local UKC Grand Champion stud, and should be expecting puppies near the end of October! We bred to an awesome male from Simply Devine Poodles, UGCH Windswept's the Heart of Life CGC FDC TKN CA. Mayer is his call name, and he is a working service dog with an amazing temperament. We are so excited to see the puppies from this breeding. Violet and Mayer are both registered with the AKC, so this litter of puppies will be as well. We are so excited to see these pups! We will update more on the litter once the pregnancy has been confirmed. We are taking names for our waitlist, if you are interested please feel free to email us at firesidepoodles@gmail.com.
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The certificate came! We are so proud of our first Grand Champion. We can't wait to see her puppies hopefully this late summer/fall!
We had a great weekend at the Trail Ridge Kennel Club's Mother's Day Classic. Violet completed her Grand Championship with three champion wins and one best of breed. It was a wonderful weekend with lots of friends and family. Now we are ready for a summer full of fun!
We are starting to see the weather change here in Colorado, the grass is starting to green up and the flowers starting to bloom. We wanted to update the blog again in case any one had missed the update that Violet did not have a litter this spring. We are planning to breed her again late this summer, with puppies ready this fall. Meanwhile we are looking at the summer shows coming up this summer in Colorado. Most of all Violet and Piper are looking forward to lots of baseball games and hiking that we have planned! We will keep you posted as things progress here at Fireside!
We are very sad to report that after many ultrasounds, that Violet is not pregnant. The breeding did not take. This is most likely due to the stress of the air travel on Violet or a timing issue; and the vet looking at her ultrasounds said she saw no problems and Violet should be ready to try again late this summer for a litter.
So, we will try for a breeding again this summer and hopefully have puppies born somewhere around October if all goes according to plan. We are waiting till the end of February for an ultrasound to hopefully confirm Violet's breeding to Indigo was a success. I would like to share a wonderful resource for those who have kids and dogs, or are planning on adding a dog to a family with kids. The amount of videos posted online, or pictures posted on social media that show dogs in distress around kids is very alarming. Please remember that although kids and children can be wonderful friends, it is a relationship that needs to be closely monitored to protect your children and your canine companions. As a family that has children school aged and a baby, we know this first hand and always make sure everyone is in safe situations. Here are some websites that are great resources for those with kids and dogs. I’ve searched around and found these 4 websites that are food resources. Why 4 websites? Because I know that everyone has different ways of processing information, and these site are different in how the present that information.
I selected this page for the great list of warning signs from your dog, the rest of the site is also great. Look under bite prevention for more tips. https://www.doggonesafe.com/Signs_of_Anxiety Here is a good resource that has some great basic advice https://www.safekidssafedogs.com/index.html This site has great information and wonderfully fun videos for kids to watch themselves. http://stopthe77.com/ The last website I’m going to list is that of Dr.Sophia Yin, she has some great basic advice but I love her graphics which I am posing below for you. https://drsophiayin.com/blog/entry/kids-and-dogs-how-kids-should-and-should-not-interact-with-dogs/ Karen of Winters Wind Standard Poodles was super awesome and sent photos of Violet and Indigo together yesterday! We are so thankful that Violet has been so well taken care of on her trip, she's had lots of land to run around on, playdates, and walks! (And romancing from the handsome Indigo ;-) )
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