Birk in the snow

Up in Norway, where Birk lives, winter has started. Birk loves the snow. And this is only just the beginning :-))

Family matters

Above: Jordi's kids
Underneath: Kalle's kids

Kalle and Jordi also have been quit busy. After having 4 beautifull kids in the Netherlands together with Nora, Kalle was asked to come to England to make Helga from the Ghyllbeck kennel pregnant. The outcome: 10 gorgeous puppies, 4 dogs and 6 bitches. Hennie has got a very nice website with lots of puppy pictures from these litters: http://www.munsterlander.nl
Jordi has been busy with Buffy from the Helydon kennel and together they made 8 beautifull kids, 2 dogs and 6 bitches. Lots of pictures of these puppies you can find at: http://www.helydon.co.uk/page_13.html
So all together up to now Jazz has got 23 children and 24 grandchildren :-))

Walking the Large Munsterlander family

Above: Jazz with her two big girls Kylie (left) and Bonnie (right)

Above: proud Jazz (middle) with 4 of her kids

(Mila left and Sparkey on the right)

Above: just like my mum (Mila and Jazz)
Underneath: Gunn on the run

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The last two weeks we could still enjoy the company of Sparkey and Gunn. They've grown big enough to visit the park so we did. Mila is living with Annemieke, who also owns Bonnie (Jazz's other daughter) and luckily they are living only a few streets away. Jazz, Kylie and Bonnie are a true pack together on our walks and soon enough Mila will probably join them on their hunts. I made a few pictures of them and a little movie.

Puppy pictures

Above: Rembrandt the sensible one

Above: pretty little Mila

Above: Sparkey the Leopard

Above: Finn loves the furniture

Above: Gunn loves to fetch things.

Underneath: Zeb is very playfull

Underneath: Kiyo the perfect pointer

Underneath: Klaus and Ares in Vienna for shopping :-))

We already received a lot of pictures of the puppies at their homes. Great to see them all so happy and active! Some of them have already gone to their first puppy-huntingtraining! And Ares already helped Klaus with trapping a fox! (well, helped trying to move the dead fox, but Ares has to grow a little more before he can be realy helpfull with that :-))

Bye bye puppies!

All the puppies have gone to their new homes now. It was a great pleasure to have raised them and they were a lot of fun. The new owners are very enthousiastic (so far, so good) and I hope they all will grow up to become beautifull and loveable huntingdogs. Jazz, you did a great job!

Last week with the puppies

Above: Jazz and Tyler

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It's already the last week with the puppies. I made a few video's, but couldn't choose, so I uploaded all three of them. One is made in our livingroom, the others in our garden.

Group picture

Above: finally some kind of relaxt looking picture

Above: total chaos in the chair

Underneath: the making-of

Ofcourse from this litter we also wanted to make a group picture. The first litter was so cute-looking in the wheelbarrow. We decided to let them pose in the lounche-chair. Maybe that would have a relaxed effect on them. First we let them play in the garden, until half of them was half asleep and then started the making-of the picture. Well we had lots of laughs, because it was total chaos all the time. Finally when half of the puppies were fast asleep, we made a picture that was reasonable, but in the back of the chair some of them were asleep too and not to be seen on the picture. Well... who cares :-))

They are lots of fun!

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The puppies are getting more adventurous by the day. They run around spread among the whole garden. Only when Kylie is near, I can make video's where at least some puppies are on. But ofcourse Kylie is also a lot of fun to look at, while she is playing and teaching her little brothers and sisters.

Roy v.d. Stommeerpolder

Hallo, I'm Roy v.d. Stommeerpolder.

All my 12 brothers and sisters found themselves a nice owner, but they forgot me! So I'm still looking for a nice owner, please contact my breeder.

I'm really a lot of fun!!

Another week older

Big sister

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The wheather was nice the last two days, so we moved the playground outside.
Kylie now recognizes the puppies as little dogs and is very sweet to them. The puppies also think she's great and follow her where they can. On our website at ALBUMS all the new puppy pictures are uploaded. It's been very busy last week, but at last we're up to date.

A minute out of a puppies life

Aaaauw, that's my ear you're biting in!

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This little video is from a week ago and is just a minute out of the puppies life. They are 3 1/2 weeks old here. I apologize for not having uploaded this video earlier on the English blog.

They are growing fast!

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The puppies are growing so fast now, they are starting to become real doggies now. They didn't realy like my porridge, but when I started to give them baby-crocks, soaked in water, they started to eat immediately.
But mum is still favorite!
On the little video, I just removed the door of their sleepingdome to let them go to their playground. I think in another week time, they will need our whole livingroom for space, because they are realy a crowd :-))

Dinner time!

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Time goes so fast, today the puppies are already 2 1/2 weeks old. I made a new serie of pictures, you can find at "Album" The puppy on the picture above realy was the sweetest today. Where with all his brothers and sisters it took me at least 20 pictures to get 1 reasonable picture, he just sat down like a professional model and waited for me to finish. What a clever little bloke!
And then the dinner time... I'm so glad Jazz is so easy going with the puppies, for everytime she goes in to feed them, well, watch the litle video and you'll see. Most of the times I have Jazz feeding on a blanket outside the box, where I let the puppies drink in shifts, first the smaller ones and later the big ones. They all grow very well.

Pretty blue eyes...

How adorable!

Puppies drinking
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Puppies sleeping
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This morning, while taking care of a puppy, all of a sudden she looked at me with the prettiest blue eyes... I was melting. My camera was near, so hear she is on the picture above. Puppy-eyes are all blue in the beginning and turn brown later.
I also made a few little video's of the puppies. They are never boring. Even while sleeping they are fun to look at.

The puppies are born!!

Above: Jazz and her kids, all very tired after birth

The top video is of giving birth to the 3rd puppy and the video underneath is of all the puppy's being well fed by their mom.
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Yesterday on the 7th of September Jazz has given birth to her puppies, 10 boys and 3 girls. (so it's a very masculin litter :-)). Jazz and the puppies are doing fine and we are very proud! On the website at "Album" we will download all the pictures of the puppies.

The last few days

There are only about 3 days waiting left before delivery. So today I took the camera on our walk, to make the last pictures of Jazz with her carriage. She's still very active and she likes the water best, because of the ducks and ofcourse because her belly weighs less in the water. And bringing me the dummy I threw is also no problem. She's realy a sweety!

Only 10 days more days before delivery!

Jazz is doing realy fine! She's eating well and she's still very active, although it's getting harder jumping over the tree-trunks now. Time is going fast. In about 10 days the puppies will be born. Exciting!

Kalle is also a dad now!

On August 15th Jazz's son Kalle has become a father of 3 bitches and 1 dog. On the picture is Kalle's girlfriend Nora the proud mother of the puppies. Congratulations!!

Still 3 weeks to go...

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Still 3 weeks to go before the puppies are due. Jazz already lost her pretty figure (see picture on top) but she hasn't lost her interests yet. On the little video the girls are mice-hunting. The puppies in Jazz's womb learn early that a Large Münsterlander life is not lived in front of the heater.

Jazz is pregnant

Monday we went to radiology to see if Jazz is realy pregnant. With dogs it can happen that you only discover the last 2 weeks that they are. Well Jazz is definately pregnant. It's hard to tell how many puppies there are inside, but I could easily count 5 of them, so we expect 8 till 10 puppies. At the top picture, with a lot of imagination, you can see a little puppy. The picture underneath is out of a book and shows a puppy-foetus at 28 days after fertilization, like our puppies right now, to get an idea what they look like. The picture is turned the same way as the puppy in Jazz's womb.