Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John

They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they start?
Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry Potter 7
can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)

K Barrett

"John Varigos" wrote in message
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Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John

It took the puppy pictures reference over at rgo to get me here, LOL! Been
so busy, yet nothing seems to be finished.

John, they are utterly huggable! Baci is a beautiful girl. I love Labs. We
don't have a dog now, but Labs were *my dogs*. Congrats, proud papa!

Diana

"K Barrett" wrote in message
...
They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they
start? Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry
Potter 7 can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)

K Barrett

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John

Cute puppies. Mom does not look much worse for the wear, but what a horror
story!

I worked in a kennel when I was a teenager. The owner bred Gordon Setters.
His priced female gave birth to a litter of 13 and then promptly developed
an infection which required an antibiotic that made her milk unsuitable, so
the owner showed me how to feed and care for them and handed the whole
litter over to me in a box to keep with me day and night and I took care of
them round the clock from like day 2 of their lives. I do remember loosing
at least one and how they all told me it was to be expected because there
were so many.... and I also remember what is was like to have the whole
litter follow me everywhere from the time they could walk because they
thought I was their mom. Then the owner took them all away and sold them.
(That's how cereal killer are made. Just keep from Captain Crunch and Count
Chocula and everything should be fine.)

"John Varigos" wrote in message
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~John

"Cereal killer"

ROFLMAO!!! Al strikes again!

Diana

"Al" wrote in message news:w1Uji.3264$MV6.1596@trnddc01...
Cute puppies. Mom does not look much worse for the wear, but what a
horror story!

I worked in a kennel when I was a teenager. The owner bred Gordon
Setters. His priced female gave birth to a litter of 13 and then promptly
developed an infection which required an antibiotic that made her milk
unsuitable, so the owner showed me how to feed and care for them and
handed the whole litter over to me in a box to keep with me day and night
and I took care of them round the clock from like day 2 of their lives. I
do remember loosing at least one and how they all told me it was to be
expected because there were so many.... and I also remember what is was
like to have the whole litter follow me everywhere from the time they
could walk because they thought I was their mom. Then the owner took them
all away and sold them. (That's how cereal killer are made. Just keep
from Captain Crunch and Count Chocula and everything should be fine.)

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John

Al, yours is the nightmare. 13 pups!! I am having enough to do with 6.
Can't imagine what 13 would be like.

I like the cereal killer reference - very funny.
~John

"Al" wrote in message news:w1Uji.3264$MV6.1596@trnddc01...
Cute puppies. Mom does not look much worse for the wear, but what a
horror story!

I worked in a kennel when I was a teenager. The owner bred Gordon
Setters. His priced female gave birth to a litter of 13 and then promptly
developed an infection which required an antibiotic that made her milk
unsuitable, so the owner showed me how to feed and care for them and
handed the whole litter over to me in a box to keep with me day and night
and I took care of them round the clock from like day 2 of their lives. I
do remember loosing at least one and how they all told me it was to be
expected because there were so many.... and I also remember what is was
like to have the whole litter follow me everywhere from the time they
could walk because they thought I was their mom. Then the owner took them
all away and sold them. (That's how cereal killer are made. Just keep
from Captain Crunch and Count Chocula and everything should be fine.)

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John

John Varigos wrote:
Al, yours is the nightmare. 13 pups!! I am having enough to do with 6.
Can't imagine what 13 would be like.

A pregnant dog I fostered a few years back had 18 - I had thought she
had been ready to whelp for two weeks at least she was so huge ( I
didn't acquire her til then, when she was discovered at the nearby park
by the conservatory staff too weak from hunger and dehydration on a 95
degree summer day to crawl 20 feet to water), but it turned out she just
had waaay too many puppies in her. One's lungs weren't developed and it
passed away the next night but Bambi (What I called her for she looked
like a little deer and she was a little dear) and I got the rest all
healthy and fatttened up til about ten weeks old when a great local dog
rescue group found homes for ALL of the pups and shortly thereafter,
Bambi, too (whom I would have kept except for the fact that my baby
girl, a shar-pei named TiPring, would not tolerate other females as she
had been repeatedly attacked by others when younger). It was a lot of
work but a lot of fun. I loved just sitting on the kitchen floor with my
back propped against a cabinet and letting them crawl all over me. I do
love puppies!

Might be a dumb quetion but isn't that some sort of a record? 18 pups in
one litter?

K

"tennis maynard" wrote in message
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John Varigos wrote:
Al, yours is the nightmare. 13 pups!! I am having enough to do with 6.
Can't imagine what 13 would be like.

A pregnant dog I fostered a few years back had 18 - I had thought she had
been ready to whelp for two weeks at least she was so huge ( I didn't
acquire her til then, when she was discovered at the nearby park by the
conservatory staff too weak from hunger and dehydration on a 95 degree
summer day to crawl 20 feet to water), but it turned out she just had
waaay too many puppies in her. One's lungs weren't developed and it passed
away the next night but Bambi (What I called her for she looked like a
little deer and she was a little dear) and I got the rest all healthy and
fatttened up til about ten weeks old when a great local dog rescue group
found homes for ALL of the pups and shortly thereafter, Bambi, too (whom I
would have kept except for the fact that my baby girl, a shar-pei named
TiPring, would not tolerate other females as she had been repeatedly
attacked by others when younger). It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. I
loved just sitting on the kitchen floor with my back propped against a
cabinet and letting them crawl all over me. I do love puppies!

Answering myself, the record AFAIK set by a mastiff, which it doesn't sound
like Bambi was one...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/ne...00/4191203.stm

K
"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Might be a dumb quetion but isn't that some sort of a record? 18 pups in
one litter?

K

"tennis maynard" wrote in message
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John Varigos wrote:
Al, yours is the nightmare. 13 pups!! I am having enough to do with 6.
Can't imagine what 13 would be like.

A pregnant dog I fostered a few years back had 18 - I had thought she had
been ready to whelp for two weeks at least she was so huge ( I didn't
acquire her til then, when she was discovered at the nearby park by the
conservatory staff too weak from hunger and dehydration on a 95 degree
summer day to crawl 20 feet to water), but it turned out she just had
waaay too many puppies in her. One's lungs weren't developed and it
passed away the next night but Bambi (What I called her for she looked
like a little deer and she was a little dear) and I got the rest all
healthy and fatttened up til about ten weeks old when a great local dog
rescue group found homes for ALL of the pups and shortly thereafter,
Bambi, too (whom I would have kept except for the fact that my baby girl,
a shar-pei named TiPring, would not tolerate other females as she had
been repeatedly attacked by others when younger). It was a lot of work
but a lot of fun. I loved just sitting on the kitchen floor with my back
propped against a cabinet and letting them crawl all over me. I do love
puppies!

K Barrett wrote:

They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they start?
Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry Potter 7
can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)...............

So reading Harry Potter brings your brain back to normal.... Hummm....
very interesting. ;-)

Lovely puppies, John. Congratulations to Mum & Grandpa.

Ann took one look at your pics & went all clucky. If you've given her ideas,
you're in real trouble ;-)

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~John

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Kathy, ifyou like Harry Potter, have you tried David Eddings? His earlier ones
were the best - "The Belgariad" (5 volumes); "The Malloreon" (5 volumes); "The
Elenium" (3 volumes); "The Tamuli (3 volumes).

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:46:38 -0700, "K Barrett" wrote:

They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they start?
Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry Potter 7
can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)

K Barrett

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~John



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Thanks Diana.

They are a beautiful breed.

~John


"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
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It took the puppy pictures reference over at rgo to get me here, LOL! Been
so busy, yet nothing seems to be finished.

John, they are utterly huggable! Baci is a beautiful girl. I love Labs. We
don't have a dog now, but Labs were *my dogs*. Congrats, proud papa!

Diana

"K Barrett" wrote in message
...
They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they
start? Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry
Potter 7 can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)

K Barrett

"John Varigos" wrote in message
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~John

Why thanks Dave. I seem to recollect from when I visited you that you had a
rather lovely dog yourself. I am sure Ann and you could manage another one.

Cheers

John

"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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Lovely puppies, John. Congratulations to Mum & Grandpa.

Ann took one look at your pics & went all clucky. If you've given her
ideas,
you're in real trouble ;-)

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 01:23:00 +1000, "John Varigos"
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~John

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Just as there's always room for another dog, there's always room for a book
recommendation. I've jotted Eddings name down! Thanks!

K
"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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Kathy, ifyou like Harry Potter, have you tried David Eddings? His earlier
ones
were the best - "The Belgariad" (5 volumes); "The Malloreon" (5 volumes);
"The
Elenium" (3 volumes); "The Tamuli (3 volumes).

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:46:38 -0700, "K Barrett"
wrote:

They're so sweet!! What cuties!! You just want to squeeze them! (Hmmm,
maybe there's a bit of serial killer in me...isn't that the way they
start?
Never mind, I've been reading too many murder mysteries. Harry Potter 7
can't come soon enough to save my weird brain from itself)

K Barrett

"John Varigos" wrote in message
.com...
Photos of the new pups (see RGO)
~John



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