Here’s an old photo of Barb that her friend Shannon dug up.
It was taken in 1994, and shows Barb in the training room at Bokhara Kennels, where Barb worked as a groomer. We’re pretty sure that one of those creams is Hillary, aka Citadel Shotsilk Hillary.
Hillary was one of Barb’s favorite Frenchies.
A young, BLOND Barb Brown
Ryder, Gunny and Charlotte's Stoney
Ryder was litter brother to Tessa and Hammer, via a repeat breeding. He was also full litter brother to Andrea’s Gunny, and to our little Teardrop.
Ryder is much missed by both Dick and Nancie, although they now have Alvin (now known as Baxter, or Mr. B) to console them, along with their lovely little girl. Ryder, however, was like Tessa, Gunny and Hammer – you can get another dog, but you can never, ever replace them.
I suppose that’s true of all good dogs though, isn’t it?
Photos on Flickr, or after the cut.
Well, just as the title says – this is a fairly cut and dried video of a French Bulldog (Butters, to be exact) under going a cesarean section.
The surgery was performed by Dr. Curtin, DVM, at Hanover Veterinary Clinic in Hanover, Ontario. For the more medically minded of you, the tissue repair that you see during the early part of the surgery is a repair on an umbilical hernia that seemed to ‘pop up’ while Butters was pregnant.
This section resulted in three healthy puppies, all of whom, along with mom, are doing well. There’s no volume not just because it’s always fairly chaotic during a section, but also because there was audible sound of the receptionist out front taking calls and talking to patients, and I didn’t want to compromise anyone’s privacy.
The video is after the cut, and if you have a squeamish stomach, you might want to just skip right to the end and see the happy baby puppies.
Butters loves her babies.
I have some footage of Butters’ entire c-section, shot in full on, gory detail, partly as an educational video, and partly as a scare tactic style ‘are you really, really sure you want to breed your dog?’ cautionary tale video.
Instead of sharing that right off the bat, I thought I’d start instead with my favorite thing of all – photos of teeny tiny baby puppies. I love them when they’re this age, because they have two modes – sleeping and passed out cold. Both make for nice, stationary photo objects, unlike Paula’s two week old Bullmastiff puppies, who are like eleven whirling, sucking dervishes. The film footage of those guys is awesome, and should be up by Friday.
In the meantime, if you get really, really close to screen, you should be able to scratch your monitor and get a whiff of puppy breath.
All the pix after the cut, or on Flickr.