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Back to the future!

9/4/2021

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Covid has made its way through our home, with only David (husband) at the moment not getting it. He has been given a wide berth and it is weird staying at least 2 metres from your husband and if any closer I am wearing a mask and have sanitised hands. Being double vaccinated and flow testing negative with no symptoms. He has been able to keep working, although only on one farm where it is all field work at the moment. 
Our six children have all got over it, not much more than a cold for them all. Three of them had received one vaccination and nature decided to give them the other. David and me are both double vaccinated. As I am chief cook and bottle washer, it was going to be almost a given that I was going to come into contact with Covid. I spent a week testing positive with very mild symptoms and a couple days ago Covid decided to ramp it up, which did coincide with after me painting the utility room. It is so boring being confined to barracks, so I thought I would use the time to get some of those jobs done that you keep putting off. So a faint line on a rapid flow test, changed to a dark red line and I felt rough with a bunged up nose and a sore throat, which has now just gone to being an irritable throat. I'm hoping this is it and a few more days and our home will hopefully become Covid free. 
Well that's enough of my woes and what for the future of Poundlane. July saw the tragedy of losing Teagol (daughter of Blottie and Mum to Polly) and a few days after her death, I had her Mum Blottie booked into be spayed. Blottie (who is a first cross Brittany/Cavalier) turned six in April with having her daughter Teagol, and Teagol already producing Polly for us from her first litter. I did not see the need to breed from Blottie again. Losing Teagol suddenly changed things and I put a stop to have Blottie spayed the end of July. Giving me a chance to think things over. I did not want to base my breeding on grief. Only having Polly to carry on that line feels a bit precarious and once I had spayed Blottie, that would be that.
So after much thought, I have decided that Blottie will breed one more litter, her fourth and last litter.I have only bred four litters from two bitches in the past and this was because they were exceptionally easy whelpers and fertile girls. Blottie ticks both those boxes and  she will also have to pass a heart examination and other relevant health checks. All going well she will be paired with Ernest (our beautiful 3/4 Cavalier and 1/4 Poodle (miniature) boy), who also will have to pass his health checks as well. He turned five back in the Spring. Blottie is due to come on heat around December time. Hopefully a Spring 2022 litter. As soon as I get over Covid, I will get health examinations booked and start the ball rolling.
​So it's back to the future for our next litter!
9 Comments
Alison
9/4/2021 11:31:35 am

Glad to hear you are all through the worst of COVID. Hope the breeding plan goes well and look forward to all the puppy updates !

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Kathy James
9/4/2021 02:21:59 pm

That’s good news. Lara from her last litter is amazing - so gentle and so full of life - perfect little working spaniel . Wishing you all the best with this litter! X

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Helen Perryman
9/4/2021 02:59:12 pm

Hope you feel back to normal soon. I'm so pleased you hadn't got Blottie spayed, I thought she'd already been done before Teagol passed and as you say, your whole breeding plan would then be rather vulnerable. Hopefully Teagol will send you another beautiful girl x

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Louise
9/4/2021 03:24:13 pm

Glad to hear that none of you have been too ill and hope it stays that way for your husband. Blottie has had such lovely puppies, hoping everything goes well and that a new litter will help heal some of the pain of your losses

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Amanda
9/5/2021 01:42:18 am

Glad you're on the mend now Jane, and I'm so pleased to hear that you're hoping to breed one last litter from Blottie and Ernest. Laika is an absolute joy and her siblings all seem to be wonderful dogs too. It would be such a shame to lose that line (apart from Polly) after all the hard work that has gone into creating it, and I really hope you get another Teagolesque "star quality" pup from this pairing.

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Lucy
9/5/2021 12:15:50 pm

Delighted to hear this about Blottie and Ernest. We couldn’t love Flossie more than we do and it’s lovely to hear that another litter of such special pups is in planning!

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janyce link
9/6/2021 05:02:50 am

Good your all on the mend now and interesting to hear how you are progressing with it!
So wonderful too that blottie and ernest may eventually produce another special pup for you and your special breeding line,best wishes for that possibility, and the memories of your lovely girls Teagal and her great grandmother smudge surely will sustain ,and live on.


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Katharine
9/7/2021 02:02:45 pm

This is great news. They look like a handsome pair! I hope the health checks go well and that you make a speedy recovery.

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Susy
9/18/2021 01:27:45 pm

Sorry to hear you’ve had covid, hope you are all over it soon and feeling more like yourselves.
Blottie is such a good mum - and Ernest Dad you can’t go wrong! Sending love from us and Dotty - who is the Queen of our house now ! X

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