Lucky Puppies Jan. 2008

Happy New Year Sam C.!!!!

Sam, from your 1st litter is now 5 years old and doing just fine. The puppy in him is just starting to slow down, now. His reflex time is starting to slow, but not by much. Just try and fool him with one of his toys. Sam is getting ready for a New Years Eve party.

Big Holiday Wishes for Bear!

Hi Donna,
Hope all is well with you and your family. Bear has completed his Manners for the real world class and did fantastic. We are sigmed up for the Canine good citizen class which starts in Jan. He is such a good pup , everyone is surprised he is only 8 months . We have had a bundle of snow already and he loves it. He also loved the presents under the tree , too much as he unwrapped some so we had to pick them up. He also loves gloves as he gets into my coat and takes them from my pocket!! We wanted to wish you all a happy holiday and a happy New Year! and to let you know again how delighted we are with Bear, you definitely do a wonderful job with your breeding .
Happy Holidays
Jane

Happy Holiday's K.C. & Shelby!!!!!

Happy Holidays, Donna!

It has been a few years since we’ve last communicated…. Both our schnoodles are doing fantastic and we absolutely adore them (we got them in 2004 and 2005). K.C. (gray) has a super smooth coat and is very active. She loves swimming in the pool and “surfs” on the floating lounge. They have a ball that they swim, too.

However, Shelby (our darker one) is not as active as K.C. and is built stockier. She is gaining too much weight and we have been really cognificant of how much we are feeding her, but evidently it is still too much.

We have been giving them dry food in the morning at 7am, and then dry food mixed with 1 heaping spoon of wet food around 4pm. Because of K.C.’s allergy to corn, they get corn-free, natural products.

My husband thinks it might be best just to feed them 1 x per day in the afternoon. Can you please give us your thoughts on this? Now that it is colder, we are walking them (since KC will still go swimming and Shelby not).

Thank you so much for your advice and happy holidays to you and your family !!!!!

Oops, forgot the most important fact:

The doctor said that KC is healthy at her 15 pounds, but Shelby is 15.8 lbs and needs to be 13 lbs. Do you have any idea how much calories for a 13 pound schnoodle?

Thanks!

Laurel Ross

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Roger!

Hello Donna,
We are Roger's ( Delilah #3-April 2007) family. He's doing well and is just as hyper as the rest of the family. He does however save some quiet moments for me. He sports a schauzner cut these days and it suits him. (Pictures next time). He was neutered 11/29/07. My husband, his best friend says ouch! Roger was obviously well socialized early.He is sweet natured. Thanks for giving him a good start. Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year.
Toni and family

The Adventures of Sammy Willcox : )

Sammy’s Most Excellent Adventure
(told by My Person)


Thanks to some friends with a black lab named ‘Lucy’, Sammy, our 3-year-old Schnoodle, and I were introduced to Okahocking Wildlife Preserve in Willistown Township. Okahocking is a beautiful parcel of land with many trails, into the woods and out, for people, dogs and horses. Sammy loves it, and each visit found her more willing and eager to meet new friends, the two legged and four legged variety, and explore her surroundings. The terrier in her had her following her nose, sometimes oblivious to my calls.

One beautiful, sunny fall day, Sammy disappeared from view for several minutes. Finally in answer to my calls (or not), she came bounding over the grassy hill, and down to where I stood. A happier dog you’ve never seen - bright eyes, tail wagging, just ready for the next adventure. But wait, were those feathers coming out from each side of her smiling mouth? I knew that there was a caretaker’s house on the property with a chicken coop. I thought Sammy had sniffed so strenuously around the coop that she had almost inhaled the feathers. I was half right. I looked up the hill, down which Sammy had so happily bounded just minutes before, to see a man beckoning me to him. I went up to him, and he held upside down in his one hand, a chicken with a bloody gut, eyes staring into space blinking slowly (the chicken’s eyes, not the man’s).

“Did my dog do that?” He assented that she had, and went on to explain that dogs were not allowed off the leash on this side of the preserve.

I was mortified. Sammy was exhilarated. I promised Alfred, as I learned his name, when he very graciously introduced himself to me, that Sammy would never be off leash on this side of the preserve again, and I would pay for the chicken. Do you know how much a chicken-coop chicken is going for these days? I think we figured on $10-$12 per pound. I raced back to the car to get the money. On my way, I ran into another dog owner who though the whole story was rather humorous, and asked me if the plucked chicken would be ready for me when I returned? When I recounted the story to others, typically the men laughed, and the women were horrified.


I leashed Sammy, deposited the money under the caretaker’s doormat as requested, and slaked out of the preserve, expecting when we returned (if we were to return) to find a photo of Sammy in a circle with a big red line through it – NO SCHNOODLES! We’ve been back since, always now on a leash, as Sammy is way too interested in seeking out who knows what…chicken!?!. Schnoodles LOVE chicken!!!

I feel so much more comfortable walking with her on the leash, knowing that we will enter and leave together and not be separated for anymore than the 12 feet of leash webbing. Sammy is happy to be walked in the preserve, but I feel deep in my heart that the joy that she felt during her earliest free walks is gone.

Ah, but the chickens are safe!!

Merry Christmas Izzy!

Hi Donna and Family,

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a great 2008. Izzie has been a dream, we love her so much and so does everyone she's meets. We are so impressed how smart she is from potty training to little tricks we have taught her. It's chilly up here now so we have just purchased a couple of little jackets to keep her warm, although the cold weather doesn't seem to faze her at all, she is more interested in a leaf that's blowing in the wind. She is about 14-15 pounds now, but you won't think it when she comes across bigger dogs and starts barking at them, well that is until they come over then she hides behind me, quite funny to see. Well must run, but thank you again Donna for Izzie our lives would truly not be the same without her!

Louise, Mark and Izzie Allen xxx>