The whole family had a nice day at spaniel & retriever show in Gränna. C. Stormy Skies was 2nd in puppyclass 1 with Prize of honour. Congratulations to Stinas owner Lena and to handler Lina. Our C. Storm of Sweden was fifth in the same class also with Prize of honour. Judge for the puppies was Ing-Marie Hagelin. Judge for the adults was wellknown Frances Jackson of the Mompesson ESS C. Moderation was 2nd in openclass with CQ, his dad G. Total Recall was 4th in championclass with CQ and M. Always A Pleasure was 4th in juniorclass with CQ (this was Abbys second show and her feet where more up in the air than on the ground). Todds progenygroup was best of breed and BIS-3 in the final. As this was Todds last show we where pleased with that. The evening was spent with superb food and in the company of good friends.

We are going to a show on Sunday. Can't even remember when we last showed any dogs at a show. I have spent a lot of time trying to remove all the dead, yellow hairs from the dogs. This is a problem during summer. As our dogs spend almost all their time outdoors when the weather is good,  it's impossible to avoid them being yellow. Of course, you can use different protecting sprays and put covers on the dogs, but the problem is to remember it and do it. On the other hand, sun is essential and very good for us humans and why should we deny our dogs the sun? I think it's good also for their health and some of them love to lie, basking, in the sun. I know that many judges (and others) dislike sunbleeched coats but personally I don't think this is that important. Of course, it's nicer when they are not yellowish but at the same time, there is more, important things to take into considering when judging dogs than some healthy summercoats. Anyway, I will do my best to remove it from our dogs until Sunday, can't guarantee that I will succeed completely though. I have to leave some coat on as well.

Change of plans again. No more puppies this year. Next litter will be during early 2009.

No puppies, lots of puppies! Todd's two litters have arrived and it was mixed feelings for the breeders. Only one puppy arrived at kennel Springmoon's and unfortunately the little dogpuppy died just a few days old. At kennel Bonasia, 11 puppies where born yesterday! So, both good and bad news. But that's nature in a nutshell, unpredictable and with a mind of it's own!

We got a lovely photo of C. Stormy Skies, or Stina as she's called. Here she is at her and her mums place on the countryside.

Today we congratulate Mistily's Always A Pleasure, our little Abby, on her first birthday! That she's behaving more like a 6-month old puppy does'nt concern her a bit. Soon she'll have her hips and eyes checked and maybe she'll also be entered to a show or two this year (if mum gets around to do it...)

It's now a week since the puppies moved from home. We wish them good luck together with their new owners and we hope to see them soon again! One of the bitches is staying with us. You can see Veras own page here.

The puppies have had their first session with clipper, scissor and comb on the trimmingtable today. All of them behaved very well once the understood that the clipper wasn't about to eat them. It's totally understandable that they are panicking a bit in the beginning with a big, noisy machine in the ear. Tonight we'll give them a beautybath as well so that they are nice and smells good when their new owners are coming this weekend.

Other nice news when it comes to puppies are that we now know for sure that there are Todd-babies on the way both at kennel Springmoon's and Bonasia. Both litters are expected in May. We are looking forward to the results.

The puppies will be eight weeks on Tuesday and next weekend some of them will move from home. We have taken new photos of them today.

Big CONGRATULATIONS to the sire of the puppies, Linmoor Yates, who's been to Bergen in Norway and brought a norwegian CC home to Sweden!

I have said it before and I'm saying it again, technicalities are wonderful when it works. Our homepage is finally up-to-date again after big trouble with our internetserver in the USA. It's very frustrating when e-mail and homepage doesn't work properly. Many people wonder if something has happened when we haven't updated in a week or so, especially now when we have puppies. That's nice as it shows that people do visit our page frequently. Keep on doing that!

The puppies are now already 5 weeks old and it's a lot more action now. They have got a bigger pen in their room so they can start to explore the world. They have also met the other dogs who are very interested in the newcomers. Lily doesn't mind at all and welcomes almost everyone to visit her puppies. The puppies now have got their official names and we think the theme is very suitable. We have updated their page with some new photos of them. Next week we'll try to take some standingphotos. The photoquality is unfortunately not the best. Our camera is currently out of order so we have had to borrow a camera.

At last some sad news. In the beginning of March we chose to say goodbye to our "old lady", Mistily's Magic Waltz. Tiny was 10 years old. Sleep well, dear Tiny. You are now finally reunited with your dear mum at the Rainbow Bridge. See you there!

Yet another nice young lady, Astrospring's Jetta, has been visiting us. We hope for new Todd-babies to be born at kennel Bonasia in the middle of May.

Todd had a ladyvisitor today, SVCH NVCH Springmoon's Kiss Me Quick. We keep our fingers crossed and hope for puppies at kennel Springmoon's in the beginning of May. We also congratulate the lady for being The Wildtrack springer of the year

The puppies are now two weeks old and still as fat och chunky. Their eyes have started to open and some of them have already done their first tries up on their small legs. We are planning to take new photos, with eyes, in the end of the week. Our daughter Ella is interested in the puppies. In the very beginning she thought they were a bit scary but now she's happy to sit with them in the puppybox and pat them and give them kisses on their tiny noses. Our guesses are that in a couple of weeks, it will not be as peaceful to sit with them with bare legs and feet!!

The puppies are now a week old, they are eating well and growing fast. We look forward to more action in the box and to get to know them even more in a couple of weeks.

The day after the birth, everything is well in the puppybox. The new mother has taken to her new role with style and the puppies are the evidence. Fat and bonny, they're just eating and sleeping. With these photos we wish you all a happy Valentines Day tomorrow and at the same time we say congratulations to our own "Valentine", grandfather, Todd who celebrates his 7th birthday!

This gang didn't want to wait. They decided to surprise us and arrive almost a week early. The result is five big puppies. Two males and three bitches. See more photos at the puppypage.

One week to go...

The mother to be is now here at home. It's exactly two weeks to expected whelping today and we can tell you that she's rather big already! We want to thank the Hjertberg family who takes such good care of Lily!

PUPPIES EXPECTED TO BE BORN AROUND FEBRUARY 18th! Finally we have some news, especially for you who have been waiting patiently, Lily (C. Magpie) is definitely in whelp. If you are interested in a puppy from this combination, you are welcome to contact us.

For those of you who are waiting for new about coming puppies, we can tell you that we visited Lily and her family today. It's now three weeks since the mating and still too early to be certain about anything but we thought we saw some signs that it might well be puppies in the making, my gut feeling says it's so. Time will tell if the female intuition once again is correct. Next visit will be in two weeks and then we hope we can stop guessing.

A new year, new adventures and challenges! In a week or so we hope to know more about our expected litter, so please come back soon. Meantime, here is the future (???) mother at 8 weeks.