Another reason we have split the girls from have litters a week apart is what happened to us at the beginning on 2020.

We had an executive meeting back in October 2019 and as we had four girls in season around the same time decided to breed three of them over the summer months to make things easier over the winter.

We did this having eight puppies on the 28th December, five puppies on the 1st January and six puppies on 12th January. That gave us a total of 19 puppies and a huge amount of hard work. It was going to be easier in the nice weather.

WRONG !!!!

During that time Kevin was diagnosed with cancer and on the 7th February I fell climbing out of the puppy pen in our dining room and smashed my ankle in 3 places. I ended up in hospital for eight days waiting for surgery.

I came home in a wheelchair as I couldn't use crutches because of my shoulder problems. This left poor Kevin at home managing all 19 puppies by himself. He lost 10kgs in 4 weeks. It was the hardest time we have ever had in our lives.

So the best laid plans didn't workout for us.

All the puppies did really well and were happily sent off to their new lives.