Levi x Raven Litter
Day 3-16 – Neonatal Period In this amazing week, we see the puppies transform from deaf , blind, helpless loaves of fur, to real little puppies who can hear, toddle, and play. You’ll get to take a peek at the funny and touching moments when they realize there’s a whole world outside of themselves. Yesterday was Day…
The puppies nursing. Yellow (Titan) is the largest puppy. Green (Ganymede) is the smallest.
Today Raven’s litter is 2 Days old. We took their weights have had some healthy gains. So far we have been blessed with a great litter and no issues. I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet on their gains so I thought I’d share a bit of it. Everyone loves a bit of data crunching. I found…
Today is day 1 after the whelping of the Eclipse Litter. Here is a short 30 second video that shows the litter feeding with close up video of individual puppies. Here are a couple of photos.
Raven and Her Eclipse Litter After a long night of helping Raven whelp (Terra is taking a nap now), nine puppies were whelped. Just after the “family” portrait was taken, Raven and her puppies fell asleep. Raven whelped her first puppy during the middle of the Beaver Moon Lunar Eclipse, the longest lasting lunar eclipse…
Raven has been starting to nest quite a bit. She’s getting big so I took her in today for an X-ray. We have a lot of puppies in there! The middle of the X-ray is a little cloudy- probably because of puppies getting in the way of each other and some of her organs in…
I’m a bit biased- but I think our labs and the boys they were bred to are gorgeous. Both chocolate labs already have been used by pet talent agencies. Let’s face it, these two litters of pups are going to be cute! The word is getting out, and I’ve had a few professional photographers and…
Pedigree for HRCH UH RFC’s Levi’s Truth Be Told MH x SHR Raven Of Tatanka Bluffs, Joining Three-doves TD, CGC,RN Both Levi and Raven have a distinguished pedigree. Twenty-one dogs in their pedigree are in the Retriever Hall of Fame. Levi and Raven share several dogs in their pedigree and are distant cousins. They share 6 ancestors…
On October 22, 2021, Raven had an ultrasound to confirm that she was pregnant. The vetinarian counted at least 6 puppies. Raven will have an X-Ray in the near future to obtain a more precise count of the number of puppies. A brief video of the ultrasound follows.
Here are Three Doves we put a lot of effort into raising our dogs to hunt. Whether the pedigree was bred for Fields like our retrievers, or if they were bred for show like our spaniels, they get as much time and training in the field as time and weather permit. While it makes sense…
