Day 16. Etta and the five liver-and-white puppies at top. The three black-and-white puppies — sisters Purdey, Domino, and Skeet — clustered together at the front of the box. They have been doing this for two days. A small mystery on Day 16 of the Game On litter, and an honest “we don’t know what…
Continue readingA Curious Day-16 Observation — Our Puppies Have Started Sorting Themselves by Color
The five Game On girls — Purdey, Diver, Domino, Wildcard, and Skeet — on their two-week birthday, lined up in a Winchester cartridges crate in front of the sunflowers. The day every eye in the litter finally opened. Two weeks old today. Eight English Springer Spaniel puppies, born into a sunflower-and-shotgun-box world, who arrived on…
Continue readingTwo Weeks Old, Eight Pairs of Open Eyes — The Game On Litter Turns Fourteen Days
Skeet, on the morning her world doubled in size. There is a particular morning, somewhere between Day 10 and Day 14, when a litter of English Springer Spaniels stops being a row of small, content, sightless mammals and starts becoming a row of individuals who can see you back. This morning was that morning for…
Continue readingThe Game On Litter Looks Back — Five of Eight Eyes Are Opening on Day 13
Hunter, our second-biggest boy and today’s demo puppy, just before his first-ever bath. There’s a moment in every litter — usually somewhere around the start of the third week — when you realize the puppies have become slightly faster than they are tidy. They’re starting to move around the whelping box on purpose,…
Continue readingBath Day for the Game On Litter — Tiny Robes, Big Personalities
Purdey, our Green-collar girl, at the eleven-day weigh-in: 1,030 grams. The first Game On puppy to cross a kilogram. A milestone morning at the whelping box: Purdey crossed one kilogram today. Eleven days old, 1,030 grams, two pounds four ounces — and the first puppy of the Game On litter over the kilo…
BlazE doing what he loves most: working with his handler on a perfect early-summer evening. Last night Etta and the eight Game On puppies stayed home in the whelping room with Terra, and BlazE and I drove out to the agility field. With a litter of nine-day-olds tucked in for the night, somebody in the…
Continue readingAn Evening Off for BlazE — Agility on the Course (and an Honest Edit)
Eight puppies, weighed every morning. One week in, that’s fifty-six data points and counting. By Albert & Terra Collver · June 2, 2026 We’re seven days into life with the Game On litter — eight puppies, four pounds of fur and feet between them — and one of the small disciplines we keep up with…
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By Albert & Terra Collver · June 1, 2026 — The Game On litter turned a week old today, and that means it’s time for one of the small, slightly-surprising tasks of new-puppy life: their very first nail trim. If you have never raised a litter, you might be picturing this as a long-from-now event…
Continue readingFirst Nail Trims for the Game On Litter — Domino Takes the Floor
The Game On litter, eight days old, in their namesake — a vintage Winchester shotgun-cartridge crate. If you’ve seen this week’s litter announcement, you’ve already met our newest crew — and you’ve probably also seen the photograph that goes with it: eight tiny English Springer Spaniel puppies piled into an antique Winchester shotgun-cartridge…
Continue readingMeet the Game On Litter — The Story Behind the Name (and That Winchester Box Photo)
*By Albert & Terra Collver · May 29, 2026* — Today the Game On litter turns three days old — and Day 3 is the day a quiet but very important part of our puppy program begins. Today is the first session of **Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS)** and **Early Scent Introduction (ESI)** for every puppy…
Continue readingDay 3 at Three Doves — Beginning ENS and ESI with the Game On Litter
