Marcella Booij's Blog (8)

Joanne gave birth to 9 really huge puppies in the night of Friday 15th of Feb. 7 Boys and 2 Girls. Our poor girl did it without any complications, but it was hard for her. She was sooooo tired at the end. But now she and her kids are doing very well. The birthweight of the puppies lay between 580 - 658 grams... unbelievable but true. Her previus litter she already gave us a shock when she deliverd 11 pups who weighted between 520 - 580 grams. They're now a week old and are doing great ..… Continue

The breeder told us recently that unfortunetaly one bitch did not survive the 1st week. We were very sad to hear that, she didn't weigh much when she was born and didn't have the strenght.

The others are doing very well and are very strong. I must say that some do look like their father.

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I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a lovely, healthy, succesfull 2008!! Continue

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Last sunday our gorgeous little girl did her very best in the showring!!

At the Winner show in Amsterdam she entered in youth class (she's just 9 months old) together with 2 other bitches. Luckely the other bitches weren't that much older (1 and nearly 2 months), so the competition was fair. For her 2nd show she did really well and she won this class with an Excellent.

This is her rapport:

Judge Mrs. Somerfield (GB)

Very naughty but has the making of a good Gordon

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Everything is going very well with the puppies in Germany. We've keep in touch with the breeders by email and get pictures now and again to keep us updated. The breeders are very satisfied with their litter and that makes me very happy. I hope they'll grow up to become wonderfull and beautiful Gordons.

Here new pictures of them:

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Conner became a father again last week of 6 beautiful puppies, 3 boys and 3 girls. I'm so proud of him, it's so fantastic to see him in his offspring. Especially his magnificent head, which he really passes on in his puppies.

here they are 1 week old: D-litter in the Flynnrock's kennel Germany

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Well we've finally decided on the dog we want to use for our next litter, J-litter, with Joanne (Forester's Fairytale of Darkmoor). It's going to be VDH-Champion Earth Fire from Fire'sons Garden (William). Another wonderfull Gordon owned by our friends Dagmar & Claudia.William has a great character, is a great hunter and well just look at him !! Hahaha.

We hope this litter will be just as wonderful as our previous litter. We're still very proud of our offspring. Especially with the

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