naturally reared border collies – Sexy Beast Border Collies

DAY 50 & 51

We have started the recall game. The most important thing you can ever do. To teach new puppies that coming to humans is the best thing ever – they can trust, feel safe, and be in an environment that is better than all of the other options. Kind and considerate hands and handling. More visitors…

DAY #42 and #43

Well happy six week old puppies! This time is flying by. I have to combine yesterday and today, yesterday got away from me as far as office work. Why? Well … The older puppies get the more work there is to do. Our farm is a nursery for more months than it is not. When…

DAY #40

The puppies had their second field trip outside, and they had so much fun exploring and tasting snow, and running in and out of the entry way. The hot spot today was in between the flower pots. They developed a mean game of hide-and-seek. When they were ready for a nap they were ready for…

DAY #37

Good Morning! We all woke up, all of us in a super good mood and playful. It is sunny and soon to be in the 30’s. We opened the kennel windows for crisp morning clean air and it felt so good! Last night my husband and I sat in the romper room and let the…

DAY #36

Today was a new developmental as well as learned shift in behavior with resources. We had communal sharing of bones, bones on the ground, puppies freely walking around, and no resource guarding. Every day for a week now, we have bone chewing time in the afternoon after lunch time and before nursing. Today the feeling…

DAY #32

So much fun today – #2 male puppy had his new family come and visit today. So fun to see a grown cowboy say OUCH when a puppy is munching on his toes! hahaha Such a sweet visit. I am getting my puppy packets together – because I am a breeder, and a trainer, and…

DAY #31

Well it started lightly yesterday and is in full swing today. F.R.A.P. – frenetic random activity periods OR frenetic random acts of play sessions. Lots of owners call this – zoomies, the bewitching hour, unleashing the kraken, crazed puppy, and none of these are wrong, they all describe the same thing. And it is all…

DAY #30

Snowy day. Lots of family visiting today. Lots of everything good. The puppies had some commercial raw food today mixed in with their chicken/raw goat milk/winter squash slurry. It was turkey protein, so their first change in protein, and some additions of different types of fruit and veggie. We also had our first bone day,…

DAY #26

The puppies have officially moved to the romper room, 24/7. I thought we would do days in the romper room and nights in the whelping box so Mama Beetz could sleep with them and nurse them, get up and eat and drink, and then go back in, BUT they made it clear that they were…

DAY #9

Well even with all of the full-contact-nursing and moving about I think I captured the long nails, so you can see what one week of growth looks like. They are almost all trimmed – but this is a good reminder how fast things grow. At this wee young age, toe nail clippers work great to…