BRUCE

The year 2011 has been the most eventful Newf year I have had. On Memorial day weekend Bruce was running across the neighbors yard a hit a hole. He started yelping. We ran to him and thought he had broken his leg. My son, Tanner picked him up and hauled him over to our house (170lbs worth). We went to the Vet it was not broken but after many Vet visits and examines, they concluded he had torn all the tendons in his left front ankle.They could operate but were not confident that the operation would be successful. I opted not to do that. He now walks with a limp. He can kind of hurry along but not too great.

NANA

In September 2011, My Nana was diagnosed with bone cancer. She was being confined in the kennel because she was in heat. She started limping and I thought how could she have hurt herself in the Kennel. I took her to the doctor and she called to tell me that Nana had bone cancer. Pretty far advanced into her lungs. She passed away in October. We dearly miss her.

THELMA

After much deliberation we decided to have Thelma spayed. She had what they call “silent heats”. She did not put off enough scent to attract Bruce. With both her litters we had to have her artificially inseminated. It is a long difficult process and so we spayed her without knowing that Nana had cancer.

KEEPER

She is our new female we got from Toronto Canada. She comes from good healthy bloodlines. She was raised on a acreage where she had plenty of room to run and have fun in the beautiful outdoors of Canada. Wolves come right up to their barn. She had a nice large frame, sweet “want to please” personality. She is 135lbs and about 26 inches at the shoulder. She has had prelims done on her hips and they looked normal. We have been very pleased with her.We think she will have beautiful puppies. She’ll be the mother of our litters going forward. You can find pictures of her on her new page here.