More Reunion photos!
Kipling
Youk, wins the award for being our largest dog!
Bright Spot ambassadors!
- Even therapy dogs need cuddles!
This Week at Berkshire Hills
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Reunion 2012
Berkshire Hills Reunion 2012!
With sunny blue skies over head more than 180 wonderful, loving people and their 90 Berkshire Hills dogs attended this year’s reunion! Dogs, little children and adults swirled around, mingling and meeting each other. Doggy siblings were found, facebook friends met for the first time, and again it worked like a harmonious dance! These dogs have the greatest temperament which is why it works so well.
7 year old Snickers and Ming were there from our first litter. Great grandmother, Willa at 8 and a half made her grand appearance. Frankie, Magnolia and Maitland came up from NYC. I got to see Henry and Pippa, Clementine and Sugar Roux, Finley and Owen, Tasha and Kiefer, Canton and Cadence, Mazel, Goji, Indy, Augie, Jasper, Max, Oliver, Ollie, both Lucys, both Winnies, Gosha, Oggie, Ester, Piper, Dante, LuLu, Chase, Nole, Turner, Bella, Zoey, Dax, Rippley, Henry, Shanti, Sweeney, Molly, Shefa, Bernie, Millie and Grace, Griffin, Mandy and Gaia, Libby, Wilson, Youk, Milo, Jackson and Franklin, Fenway, Darla, Sophie, Sadie, Edgar, little Ozzie and Maisy, Martha, Rugby and Dakota, Jaya, Wendall, Carson, Eva, Mabel, Kipling, Mabel, Olive, Tate, Sydney, Lila, Marlowe, Jack!…I don’t want to leave anyone out! Who am I forgetting?
Cynthia and Diane from Bright Spot Therapy dogs were there with Violet and Oscar. They inspired many people to consider therapy work.
For me the reunion is a true harvest time when I get to see so many of my babies, I just love it! Thank you all for making it such a wonderful event!!
I never have time to photograph the event and then when I do it never captures the true feeling. Some reason it doesn’t look like many people were there! So please send in your photos! Here is a little video clip that I managed to get quickly on my iPhone…
Berkshire Hills Reunion 2012
Right-click or ctrl-click this link to download.
(sorry that it came out sideways!)
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This Week At Berkshire Hills
This Week at Berkshire Hills
The Reunion is almost here!
This annual event is for all of my families and individuals who have one (or more) of our Berkshire Hills dogs. Over a hundred people and their BH dogs come out to our farm each Fall to romp and meet each other, see furry siblings, parents and cousins again, eat homemade cider donuts and drink coffee and cider. Country fun at it’s best! I just love the reunions.
This year Cynthia Hinckley, owner of Bright Spot Therapy Dogs will have a table set up to give out information on what it takes to train your dog in therapy work. She will have Violet with her, a certified therapy dog and one of the Berkshire Hills breeding dogs! Cynthia is a great resource if you have any interest in training your dog to be a therapy dog (which our dogs excel at!)
There will also be a table with local goods for sale just for the fun of it (friends and family put it together!) There will be Quince preserves from our own quince trees and felted wool soaps so far.
I finished the Berkshire Hills sign just in time for the reunion. It is slightly different from the last sign that was damaged. Kipling has been replaced with a chocolate dog (Pip modeled, but I made the dog a standard!) This time I varnished it really well.
The leaves have fallen off the trees and lost their color but the crispy brown leaves on the ground have a most wonderful earthy Fall smell to them that only happens at the end of October.
Sunday is suppose to be a sunny day though a bit cold, so please dress warmly! I can’t wait to see you all again! ~Sunny
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Puppy Update-Louisa’12
Puppy Update!
Snoozing the day (and night) away is what most 2 and half week old puppies do and Louisa’s puppies are no different!
Even though eyes are open and attempts to wobble around the whelping pen are happening, those eyes and legs get tired. The puppy pile is where I find the pups most of the time.
It is hard to resist that warm nest of puppies huddled on top of each other. I love to snuggle my nose into them and feel their shiny coat with my cheek and take in that sweet milky puppy breath. Yum!
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Puppy Update
PUPPY UPDATE
For Eleanor and Paloma’s puppies a little over 4 weeks have passed since they were born.
What used to be a wobble in their walk is now a confident trot, or a little hop and a jump, and what looks like a few steps to the tango.
Without their fluffy coats (which starts to come in around 5-6 weeks) they look like big chunky Lab puppies. What sweet faces on them!
Teeth are beginning to emerge, which is helpful with their weaning, but can be a surprise when they try them out on your toes!
They are eating 3 meals a day now along with a little nursing.
We are all having so much fun with these rolly polly babies!
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Getting ready for the storm
Getting Ready for the Storm
As you all know now the Berkshire Hills reunion has been postponed until next Sunday due to the pending storm along the east coast.
It is actually a good thing to have this weekend to prepare for the possibility of power outages. At Berkshire Hills we have to be self sufficient because there is no where else to go with 9 adult dogs and 21 puppies!
The main thing we need to do in preparation for a power outage is to have lots of water on hand. The dogs drink a lot of water and to not have a clean source would be devastating. So we fill up bath tubs and containers. We also bring dry wood in for the wood stove and then the usual things like stock up on dog food, people food, batteries, gas in car, etc. I promise this is the year I will get a generator.
Fortunately our dogs are not concerned with thunder or other loud noises. Thank goodness because this Saturday was our neighbor’s annual WW2 re-inactment. Besides soldiers marching by our house day and night there is the constant sound of infantry weapons. The dogs give the soldiers a hard time, barking at them as they go by. Paloma especially hates those Nazi’s. Good girl Paloma. It is an odd scene, but one we live with every year!
Good luck to everyone who may be affected by the storm and look forward to our beautiful day next Sunday! ~Sunny
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Puppy Update
PUPPY UPDATE
At Berkshire Hills, my girls like to have their puppies around the same time, so this fall we have 21 puppies! Eleanor’s 9 puppies, Paloma’s 7 puppies, and Louisa’s 5 (all have homes)
Eleanor and Paloma’s puppies are almost 4 weeks old and are just enjoying bowls full of goat’s milk along with their mama’s milk. They run over to the bowl as fast as their wobbily legs can take them and then dive in head first! They get so excited they aren’t sure whether to swim in the goat’s milk or lick the milk off themselves. They will figure it out fairly soon.
Louisa’s 5 pups are still in the whelping box. Nearly two weeks old they still have their eyes shut and sleeping most of the time. They have such shiny coats and beautiful boxy heads like the other pups, but they are on the smaller side (except for one big chunky chocolate boy!)
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