Tuesday, January 8, 2008

10 weeks and they're gone!

Ivan (in the pink collar) and Irish (in neon green, of course!). After enough time for the pups to run around and have a bathroom break, we said goodbye and loaded them back into the bin for a ride into the kennels. It was a VERY quiet ride home - and a nice relaxing evening ~ after we scoured the dog run, x-pens, crates, puppy litter boxes, toys, and garage area....

Once in the Puppy Park, they are excited to be free and run around. Many of the toys are the same as what we have, so they're very comfortable in their new play area.

It's definitely hard to get a good shot from the side of the pups - but they're all jumping around and trying to see out the top as we roll across campus from the parking spot to the Puppy Park.

Once we got to CCI, there was special reserved puppy drop-off parking space for us, right in front. Jim Flint came out with one big bin and took a look at the pups - "Whoa, maybe I should have brought two bins!" We squeezed them all into the one bin and away we went.

OK, we got all of the babies into our Highlander. There is a big crate with three pups, two medium crates with two pups each and a single crate with one pup. It was a tight fit, but everyone seemed to have enough space.

Dennis and Patty saying goodbye to the brood - definitely a happy moment - but we weren't looking forward to two hours in the car with eight puppies. This trip can be one of the noisiest rides ever with at least one pup whining/crying all the way to Santa Rosa. As it turned out, they were really good and we had a nice drive.

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