Bluestem Kennels

RIP Sam

Sam (Sweetgrass Plainsman Samson, UT III) was our foundation stud who was retired on a sheep farm near Bowling Green, Kentucky.  On Saturday he ran out on to the road in front of a teenager speeding on an ATV and was hit and killed.  He will live on in the 70-some puppies that he produced, and I own his daughter, Fire and his grandson, Chief.  His painting hangs on my wall and he will never be forgotten.  I will pay him a more fitting tribute later in the summer when I’m not so busy with puppies.  But he was a damn fine dog and feel lucky to have had him in my life.  Sorry to Troy and Cris for their loss, they really loved him too.

“K” Litter at Two Weeks Old

All of the puppies of “K” and “L” litters 2016 are spoken for at this time, please e-mail bluestemkennels@gmail.com if you would like to be on the contact list in the event of someone backing out at the last minute.

As I said in my last post, their eyes are all open and they are eating mush of canned puppy food and puppy milk replacer.  They are starting to get their legs under them a bit.  They are three weeks old now, but I’ve been busy with this new litter and family in town, so it probably won’t be until Sunday until I get back out to see them again.

Here is a video of them hanging in the yard with Aaron and I over at his house.  The editing is kind of bad because movie maker was giving me fits today, but the puppies are still cute with bad editing.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG1jQJYFZ2o&feature=youtu.be

I give my puppies names, just so that I can keep them straight as I’m photographing and evaluating them.  I don’t actually call them by their names.  I call them all “puppies” as a group and you’ll see that they’ll actually respond after about 5 weeks or so.

You can’t tell anything about size by these photos because they are not always at the same distance away.  It is mainly for my records with coloration.  This has nothing to do with picks.  I do breeder picks between 5-6 weeks old.  They are not old enough to tell anything about them by these photos.  Except that they are cute, of course.

So here they are:

Karen face, female

Karen body, female

Kalli face, female

Kalli body, female

Kylla face, female

Kylla body, female

Keri face, female

Keri face, female

Kennedy face, female

Kennedy body, female

Krystal face, female

Krystal body, female

Karma face, female

Karma body, female

Kristov face. male

Kristov body, male

Klaus face, boy

Klaus body, boy

Karl face, male

Karl body, male

Kato face, male

Kato body, male

Konrad face, male

Konrad body, male

Kaden face, male

Kaden body, male

Okay, that’s everybody!  I’ll be back soon to post some one week video and pics of the “L” litter and 3 week old video and pics from the “K” litter.  Thanks for stopping by.