Bluestem Kennels

I had just sat down to write my blog post for the week, running a little behind schedule, when I popped over to my e-mail.  What a surprise awaited there!  I was offered and have since accepted a web writer position with Lion Country Supply http://www.lcsupply.com/.  I am really just beside myself with excitement, who would have thought that having a passion for hunting dogs and having an English degree would somehow come together to have a purpose.  I mean, a purpose other than entertaining you fine folks, which is a great purpose too!  So I’m not going to have the focus to edit down my video for the week just yet.  Plus I’m running into my time that we have to go to the vet for microchips and shots here in a few hours, so I had better get my pictures posted and say what I have to say!

The “E” litter is ready to go, the first pup leaves on Friday.  They are full of energy and are running up and down the hills of the woods.  They love to eat their kibble and fight with each other.  They use their noses and find interesting things to drag around (and fight over).

We picked up some male chukars to train Sam and BB with, so Charles dispatched a few in training, so we brought them out to the pups.  (Just as an aside: chukar roosters are loud.  They are not quiet or melodic like pigeons or quail.  Our bird holding pen sits right outside our bedroom window and these chukars are like rooster chickens.  I know when the sun is coming up!!  I can’t wait to get through this pot load so we can get back to quail.)

Edna and Edith chew on the chukar

Edward and Esther mess with the bird

Everyone had a turn with the bird in the woods, but I was shooting with the camera phone and so the pictures were cruddy at times.  Then they would drag it into a brush pile or something and you couldn’t see anything.  But you get the idea with this.  Plus I missed Esther with my good camera, so I wanted to make sure to get her in.  Here are this week’s “E” litter pics.

Edna will be the first to leave on Friday. But she will just be across town so I will see her

Eustace will fly to Ohio on the 29th

Edith (left) will go to OK and Edward to MN this weekend.

Etta is going to hang with me until Memorial Day, when she’ll go to CO.

Evangeline will go to MO on Saturday

Elizabeth will roadtrip to MD starting on Tuesday.

The “F” Litter is getting quite big, it won’t be too long before they are hitting the road themselves!  I’ve finally got them broken to dry kibble, so it is nice not having to deal with the canned food.  They are climbing in and out of the dog house and chasing each other around the kennel, so this weekend they should be ready to start roaming the hills here.  If it stops raining long enough for them to (it has been raining here since yesterday morning, but we are in a drought, so we really can’t complain at all.  At least it isn’t snow like it is out west and further north.)  I have also made my picks, it is much easier with 4 puppies.  The male is going to western Wyoming, Fern will stay in my breeding program and move in with friends in Montana, Freida will go out to Ohio and Flora will go to Texas.  Mae’s pups also had a chance to check out a chukar.

Mae’s pups check out the chukar. Clockwise from top left: Frieda, Francis, Flora and Fern

Closeup of F litter and the bird. Freida, Francis, Flora and Fern

Freida, Fern and Francis chowing down.

Flora doing some laps around the kennel.

It is about time for me to go pick up Charles for a celebratory Thai lunch and then haul some muddy pups up the hill to go to the vet.  I am truly in awe of how something that started on a whim (breeding dogs and blogging) has turned into a full blown real deal.  I never once growing up thought that I would be a professional crazy dog lady, but I guess that is where I’m at and I have a feeling that this is only the beginning.

Next time I’m back here, we’ll have pictures of “E” litter puppies with their new families!