Amiryck

First taste of food and the outdoors

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:53:00 +0000

Today saw two "firsts" for the puppies. This morning they had their first taste of solid food, and they loved it, no coaxing necessary they dived straight in. This was followed by a VERY brief foray into the garden for a quick sniff around before returning to their warm room. It no doubt won't be long before they would rather be out than in!

the preferred mode of transport

Puppy Head Shots

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Now the puppies have their eyes open, some headshots of our little treasures!

Puppy Update

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:15:00 +0000

Sadly we have had to say goodbye to one of our little girl puppies today. She had not gained any weight since birth and despite our best efforts and round the clock nursing it became clear that the kindest thing to do would be to let her be at peace.

The rest of the puppies are doing well and now have their baby names so introducing...

Girls: Crumble (beige), Blossom (turquoise and pink), Juice (lilac), Orchard (turquoise and white)

Boys: Pip (green), Bobbin (blue), Mac (turquoise),

The photo album on the previous post is still being updated so keep monitoring!

Finally some news...

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

We are delighted to announce the arrival of Cezar and Apple's eight puppies. They are now the proud parents of 5 little girls and 3 boys.

I have also had a couple of lovely critiques written for Opal from her recent show. I am so pleased with her. They can be read here: http://amiryck.me.uk/cats.html#Opal

Finally I am delighted to announce Tennant now has his very own page on his owner Sam's website. What a gorgeous boy, click to see him here:

http://farlapbloodhounds.com/section63655_211049.html

Angus and Opal

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Having had a very busy weekend, I was delighted to come home to find some lovely pictures of Angus, one of Cally's litter from 2010.

Angus

Opal and I attended our first ever cat show and she did me proud!

Opal

Not long to go now and Pearl growing up

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Apple has around 2 weeks until her due date but is already piling on the pounds, I am not sure she will last that long...

Pearl is growing up into a pretty young lady, she managed to stay still just long enough for some photos today!

Mummy, Daddy and Baby

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:49:00 +0000

All is looking good for new additions at the end of the month with Apple positively blooming. Cezar is looking pretty smug. Pearl is just looking pretty!

Cezar relaxing at the end of the shoot today

Apple with an expanding waistline

Pretty Pearl

Fingers Crossed!

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:01:00 +0000

The weather has been so vile here I haven't had decent photos to post but I have taken a few this morning.

We are keeping our fingers crossed for puppies from Cezar and Apple at the end of January. We should know in a week or so if the matings have been successful.

Cezar

Apple

Meanwhile, Pearl demonstrates why white and mud don't mix!

Pointer mud wrestling

Ready to pounce on mum...

A spot of lunchtime training

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:44:00 +0000

I wanted to spend some time with Cezar to bring him up to speed on our commands and work on his obedience training so I took him and Maggie out this lunchtime.

he is very keen on the birds!

sat to attention

sat watching the birds!

training to leave the ducks

who weren't the slightest bit bothered!

An extra hour with the family

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:33:00 +0000

I wish the clocks went back more often since it has been lovely to spend some time with the family.

the wires

a rare photo of me with the dogs!

Isla and Cezar, best of friends

Isla with Cezar

Chris with Maggie

Cezar with the kids - he loves them <3

Isla with Cezar

Isla with Maggie and Cezar

Cally, 8 years old and looking good!

The puppies getting some fresh air in the garden - love them!

Isla and Chris - showing they can get on

Isla

Richard picking on his son ;)

The lovely Erica

and her lovely mum Ronnie

Isla feeding Ronnie

and Lu

Chris feeding Ambrose

Settling in

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:19:00 +0000

Cezar has fitted in to our way of life well and is definitely one of the pack.

Testament to this breed's nature he runs happily with the alpacas

the other "main man" Herby!

Cezar and Herby

The pointer puppies are doing very well.

Diamond

Pearl

Prince

A big step for Amiryck

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:34:00 +0000

We have had rather a tense and hectic last couple of weeks on top of our normal manic-ness! I have for some time been looking around for suitable husbands for Apple. I was concious that I didn't want to "get in a hole" with the gene pool over here since a large number of the wires we see in the UK are from only a handful of lines, which starts to make finding an unrelated male pretty difficult. I had seen a male I liked in Holland, whose progress I had been monitoring with the thought of possibly asking to use him.

However a couple of weeks ago I saw a male for sale in Hungary that stood out to me. Interestingly when I asked about his pedigree he was descended from the same lines as the male I had liked in Holland. However, despite the fact that we liked the look of him we wouldn't dream of importing a male without making sure we liked his temperament. So last weekend Richard went on a whistle stop trip to Hungary to make sure he was what he seemed. He was and the last week has seen some frantic planning to get him over here, thankfully he already had his pet passport.

He arrived home today and has settled really well. We know he will have a lot of differences to get used to but he has such a lovely nature we are sure it won't take him long to adjust.

So meet Fürdöházi Álnok (Cézár). Our thanks to Zsofia and Rita for their help getting him here!

Maggie, Daisy, Cezar, Apple, Cally and Herby

Chilled Sunday

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:37:00 +0000

We enjoyed a lovely family walk with the dogs this afternoon.

Casting off

hunting

Maggie

we were being watched

On the way back through the alpaca paddock I took a couple of photos of this year's cria. We are so pleased with them.

Cinnie and Fennel

Coco and Filbert

Forget Me Not

Fuschia

For the cute factor a picture of Isla with Pearl.

Isla with Pearl

Last cria of the year

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:16:00 +0000

Our last cria of the year was born on Saturday. In Coco's usual style we had to have the vet out to help ease out the second leg! However the young man and his mum are both doing well.

Coco's cria

Coco and her cria

We are pleased with our cria this year. Here are some of them. Followers will notice Cinnie at the front right with her brown cria moving away from her!

Our 3 younger fawn cria seem joined at the hip and aren't ever far behind each other...

Halo's cria Forget me not

Worth the wait!

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:38:00 +0000

Warning - graphic pictures!

Cinnie has been keeping us waiting. She has been fidgeting for the past week but today, 12 months to the day since her last mating date she has given birth to a lovely brown girl.

Meeting Granny Coco

Mum - someone to lean on

Puppy pics

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:35:00 +0000

Mum and pups continue to do well...

B-day

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:16:00 +0000

Things didn't go quite as we had hoped with April's litter. We had only counted a few puppies on her scan and she wasn't huge so we were expecting a smallish litter. However, we didn't bank on it needing to be assisted! She went in for an emergency c-section this morning and has come home this aft with 3 lovely little puppies, 2 girls and a boy. Most importantly mum and babies are doing well.

Whilst April was at the vets, Halo decided to produce a cria in a much simpler fashion. A lovely brown girl, yet to be named.

newborn

starting to dry off and think about food

The young fawn cria have taken to staying together.

Ferula, Frosty and Fuschia

They even stick together at high speed, the rest can't work out what is going on!

Cinnie's cria from last year ED

Fagus and Fern

Not long to go now...

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:44:00 +0000

April is putting on a bit of weight now, not long to the impending arrivals.

It was lovely to receive some photos of Obi from her first litter. Here he is enjoying an unusually sunny day. Very like his mum!

Hectic

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:57:00 +0000

We have had a busy few days here so time for a catch up...

Thursday saw the birth of Monique's cria whilst I was at work. He is a very, big stocky, fawn boy. His mum is so protective Richard couldn't get near him to spray his umbilical cord so I had to do it when I got home (and came back in smothered in spit!)

Ferula with his big sister Moselle

The following day Monique's daughter Dahlia decided to produce her cria in double quick time. She must have coughed him out in less than 10 minutes flat! Thankfully he was up and walking in about the next 15 minutes and drinking shortly after that. What a relief when we were going away that that didn't need monitoring!

Fairfield Frost (a variety of Dahlia)

The rest of the cria appear to be doing well, here are a couple.

Fuschia, daughter of another Monique daughter Moselle

Fern and Foxglove

After Frosty was born on Friday we headed off to the HWVA working test. I had my camera in tow but was unfortunately not able to use it during the test since I was stewarding all day. However, there are a couple of pictures below from before the test.

Our wires trying to behave themselves!

Herby demonstrating his water retrieving

Maggie having a go at one of the puppy tests, whilst setting up

We have now seen four of the kittens go off to their new homes. We wish their owners every happiness with their new family members. We were thrilled that they went off in pairs...

Bajou and Angel, now known as Denzil and Twinkle

Twilight and Berry, now known as Luca and Gino

Dawn, who will be staying here, with mum Bella.

they get on OK most of the time!

Elmer has a sister!

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:36:00 +0000

Elmer our young Jack-Moselle black boy who has done well for us this year at shows now has a full sister. Born this morning, a few days shy of 11 months she seems to be doing well so far.

Kitten update

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:17:00 +0000

It won't be long now before the kittens go, so here is a photo update.

Angel

Bajou

Berry

Dawn

Twilight

Been a bit busy

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:16:00 +0000

I haven't blogged recently since the weekend saw Isla and I living it up in London. Meanwhile all is good here...

schmoozing with the stars!

Spectacular skyline

Pomme

April looking a bit tubby - wonder why??!!!

Milk bar nozzles - primed and waiting

Foxglove is doing well

Happy days

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:02:00 +0000

I am feeling very happy at the moment. The sun helps I guess but there are other factors - hopefully more on that another time.

Today has seen the addition of another female to our herd. Nearly black, I am thinking dark brown in colour. She was born two weeks early but very strong. We will have to think of a name for her now.

Erica looking lovely

Isla with Freesia

Does anything faze Maggie?

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:42:00 +0000

Maggie went for her first trip to the beach today with Chris and I. Typically she took it all in her stride.

The kittens are proving increasingly more difficult to photograph since they are usually racing around, here they are in a rare moment of stillness.

There were 5 in the bed and the little one said...

Berry and Bajou

Full of it

noreply@blogger.com (Amiryck) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:29:00 +0000

The dogs seem to be enjoying the brighter weather.

April looking serene

Steady hunting

but still wanting to have fun

Daisy

Herby

Herby, during a calm moment

Herby retrieving

Cally and Daisy hunting

Maggie is very loyal

Encore adds a little decoration to her fleece

as does Evie

Freesia