Mucky pups

Molly's in the dog house again! She met lots of her old doggy friends yesterday when we were out for a walk and they found a dead pike which just had to be rolled on! Needless to say we had to hose her down again......Alfie keeps wonderinh where his mum goes every morning and why she smells strange when she comes back. Alfie is keeping the workmen busy by digging in the piles of sand they have left ready to lay block paving on. He looks lovely covered in sand!

You don't have to say you love me

Alfie knows he can do no wrong! He is nearly 12 weeks old now and has had a great week playing in the garden with Molly and the workmen! He constantly wins hearts and has a real mischievious streak: he loves to take plant labels out of the ground and run away and hide them. He is growing very quickly now and it won't be long before he can go out into the big wide world. Molly disgraced herself when Anna took her out by rolling in a swampy puddle: she had to be hosed down.

Mr Piddle

Alfie is very pleased to have his teenagers back home to play with. We're not sure who the puppy is sometimes as Molly is too playful. He is starting to grow his silky adult coat over the puppy fluff, but his ears stay velvety. He is still being known as Alfie piddle: most of the time he is very good, but there's so much going on he forgets. At least we have a side-on view to show how he could do a show stance, pity he's piddling!

Happy Easter

The lambs are nearly as cute as chocolate lab puppies, but sheep definitely are not cute.

Easter Sunday was Ali's last day lambing. Anna back from skiing now so she had to get up at 6.30 to look after Alfie whilst we took Ali to Chatsworth and Molly came with us for a long walk. We then had to wait for a cafe to open for breakfast as we'd done 4 miles by 9am.

Baaaaaaa

Ali has swopped looking after a puppy for a week of lambing. Chatsworth have had nearly 4000 lambs born this spring and the noise at 7.30 each morning is amazing. He had his first chance to deliver a lamb and found out that sheep need worming just like dogs, but the only problem is that you have to catch them first!

Our Boy

At last a proper introduction to our boy, Alfie. Looking back, it hardly seems possible that the puppies were only conceived on December 1st. So much has happened in 4 months. The main reason for having the litter was for us to keep a puppy and this is the boy that chose us. He is getting used to life without siblings, but Molly is re-living her puppyhood and sometimes has to be told off for being too rough. His nickname is Alfie piddle as he sometimes forgets....

One Little Puppy

One little puppy, feeling all alone,

Molly, woofed hello son and he woofed hello mum.

Kachupicchu Fernando (Brown bones collar) is staying in Nottingham. This is Alfie, often known as Alfie Piddle. We were fairly sure that he was the one for us, even before Molly's breeder had a look at the puppies, and luckily she agreed that he's a gorgeous lab.

Two little Puppies

Two little puppies playing in the sun,

One went off to Bucks and then there was one.

Kachupicchu Name of the Game has left us today. We've had a lovely week with Tilly and Alfie and we'll all miss her especially Molly.

Where have all the puppies gone?

When Ali went to school on Friday morning, we still had 6 puppies. He went straight from school to the Lake District to train for an expedition to Greenland this summer. He returned yesterday to just two puppies and a much calmer house (we have even had two nights with no poos)! Alfie on the left and Tilly on the right.