Player X Audrey Feb. 28th 2007
Ready to go to new homes: April 25th 2007

She began to whelp a day ahead of her due date, and being a first time Mom she was a bit confused and needed a fair amount of assistance. I even enlisted the help of my vet's office to make sure all went well. Five pups were born at my vet's office. These pups were born very small and received a great deal of 'human' help from me (& the vet's office) thru their first week. Sadly two were not viable pups and passed very early on despite our best efforts (those of myself & my vet's). The remaining three began to thrive after the first week.

Due to their 'interesting' start to life, my vet and I decided docking their tails at the normal time was not a good choice. Therefore these pups will be docked later on after they have grown larger. If there happens to be a pet owner wanting their puppy to 'keep' it's tail, that will be considered as well.

They coloring on these pups has been a great surprise as well. I am only taking applications on the females as pets/performance dogs, meaning they must be spayed and can not be bred. The lone male is a very 'special' interesting coloring. He is what is called a TRUE phantom merle. His body markings is a very pretty and correct black tri, however his tail is very much blue merle. Thus if he were to be used for breeding he will genetically breed like a blue merle (however after his tail docking he will 'appear' to be a black tri). Due to their 'increased' white markings, I will be taking this entire litter in to be hearing tested with the BAER hearing process. And as usual I will be having their eyes checked with a CERF exam prior to going home as well.

Audrey has not settled into motherhood very well but now adores motherhood. She takes great joy in her pups and is just thrilled with her job.

These pups should mature into tremendous movers and beautiful in structure. Both Audrey and Player have great personalities and live to please people. Player is a multiple Best of Breed winner in the breed ring, as well as a consistent placer in the herding trial arena. He is athletic and has boundless energy. Audrey is a silly girl with personality plus. She loves to play with other dogs and interacts well with people too.