Dachshund shuffle

This is a new dance that we have created in the last couple of weeks. It seems that we have several females that have came into heat. So we have been shuffling females in and out of kennels rearrange kennels to get the right mix of male/female. So far we have Tabby, Muffin, Daisy, Foxy, Bunni that have came into heat and a couple of more any day now. By June/July we hopefully will have puppies to sale.

The great wall of Seymour

For about 6 months now we have been discussing how can we get more room for our puppies. If you have ever seen our back yard, it really is not a yard but a big driveway. It has gravel all on it. You could probably put four cars side by side that is how wide our driveway is. Well we decided to put up an area that would block off more area for the dogs/puppies. Ben worked very hard on the design of this. I would say it is a great design. He knows that I am very particular in the fact that I do not want for people to come up and all they see is a big fence. For over a week now we have been working on this area. We put up fence post and then lattice. This goes from one corner of the back of the house to the other corner of the house. To put this into more of a prospective. It has taken 16 pcs of lattice work to make this fence. Or as I jokingly refer to it as the great wall of Seymour. We have it up right now to the point that the inside dogs can go outside and run. The rottie really loves it. Unfortunately, mother nature is not cooperating with us and we have not been able to extend the kennels yet. There is also not a gate. So to access the house from the back right now, we have put up the swimming pool ladder to climb over the fence. Now can we say redneck.

Now hopefully after the time changes and the weather will break we can get the kennels expanded and let the other ones out. We are also decided on how to expand the kennels in the inside. We are wanting to divide them into the point that we have 8 kennels. That way we can have just a couple of dogs in one area. It seems that we have a couple of girls going into heat and things are a little snippy in their areas. Can we say cat fight???

So here is to the great wall of Seymour. Hopefully we can get it completed so that the dogs/puppies can run and play.

The name game

When we have puppies, we do not call them by any particular name. We feel that the new family should be the one that picks out the name. They will call us and we will start calling them by that name. This set of puppies, we had an Ellie, Sydney, Baxter, Jake and a Dozier. Now that all of the puppies who had families have went home, we have some left. We have a boy and two girls. So this weekend, we pay the name game. This is where we look at them and find the name that we fits them. We do not want them going any longer without a name. So we have Beau, Sissy and Lacy. Hopefully they will ony have to go by these names for just a few days until their new family arrives.