It's had to believe that 7 weeks have flown by and puppies are already starting to head to their new homes. The big news here at the kennel is that we are expecting Daisy puppies the end of Nov. For anyone who knows Daisy this is an exciting litter of pups.
School has also started. Our son is a Senior! Grandkids are back in school and it is almost time to start training for our dog sled season!

Puppies are doing great. They are almost 5 weeks old. They are at a wonderful age and love attention. This is my favorite time when the pups start to become excited when I come in the room! They can now bark and wag their tails!
I spent many hours this week grooming my poodles. There is such a feeling of satisfaction when I have completed grooming one of my dogs. The dogs love the one on one time when they are on the grooming table. My poodles and labradoodles love to be groomed!

What a great time. The puppies played with the grandkids and now my nieces came to visit before leaving for school! This is a time of constand socialization for the pups. Hard to believe summer is almost over and pups go to their new homes in 3 weeks!

Our puppies will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. They are learning how to walk and play. Their motor skills are very limited! The little guys are becoming individuals. Some like to sleep side by side and others on their backs. The weather has been humid so mom spends less time in the box and they have more space to explore. No tail wagging yet. But soon!
We took a dog and puppy break and spent the weekend with our grandkids and our sons. What a great time. We only took our Daisy dog since there was so much goin on. I was trilled to get back to the dogs!

Our pups are two weeks old and growing fast! Crush is a great mom and Ryan comes home from work to enjoy his puppies. It was hard for him to decide not to keep one but he doesn't have time for more than one dog right now. He is planning on racing his sled dogs one more season and training isn't to far away.
Our Eve will be bred next week for Labrador Retrivers. Today the dogs were out planing enjoying the cool evening. We love to spend time playing after work. The dogs are learning how to use some of the agility equipment. But the best exercise is just running and chasing each other or playing with a stick!

Puppies are finally here! It was a busy time. Thanks to Lori and Paige and Crush we managed to have the litter born and do our funeral stuff that we needed to attend for Tom's mom. Ryan and Crush's lst litter ended up with 4 boys and 2 girls. Three are chocolate, two are a lite cream and l is white. All beautiful pups!

We are still waiting for puppies. Ryan says it won't be for at least another day. That works for us since we have a funeral and family stuff until Tuesday pm. (Tom's mother passed away suddenly) Maybe Crush knows that Ryan and I are hoping she holds off just a little longer. But...........
Funerals and puppies are on their own schedule! My friend Lori who is a breeder is on call to sit with Crush tonight and tomorrow afternoon so that she won't be alone. She promises to hold her paw the whole time. Paige is also planning on being with her so it sounds like they will get along just fine without me. Crush knows both of them well. Next update should be puppy pictures!

We are impatiently waiting for Crush's puppies. Ryan is very excited and hopes they are here tomorrow. He will have to work Monday AM and cannot miss work. I will have to deliver pups if we don't have them tomorrow.

We are waiting for puppies. Crush is due this weekend and it seems like forever since we last had pups running around here. It is nice to have pups coming soon. Ryan is working in the kennel this weekend and is hoping that the pups come before he has to head back to work on Monday. Lets hope they arrive on time!

It is hard to believe summer is just flying by! We have been busy working at the kennel. We don't have as many employees this summer so Daisy and I are a bit busier than usual. We have pups due in about a week! We are very excited. We have another litter planned to be bred in a few weeks so we will be busy right through the end of the year! You will see one picture of Tom and a pup we sold. Oscar came in for daycare and a little haircut. He is a son of Chip and Pig. What a great personality!

We have confirmed Crush's pregnancy! Ryan and I are very excited. We have talked and planned this for along time. Ryan will be in charge of whelping puppies and puppy care. I will be the back up person. If you are considering a Crush puppy both Ryan and I are available to talk with.

We are enjoying family and friends this summer! A good lab breeder friend just stopped in! It was fun to show her my dogs both labs and labradoodles!

Our peacock

Rain Rain go away come again another day. It should be a great season for blueberries with all the moisture. That is something to look foreward to. My dogs all know how to pick berries off the bushes. Bianca my poodle is the best picker.

Puppies are due July 25! What an exciting litter with Crush for a mom and Pig the dad! This should be our best litter yet! I think I say that with every litter. The goal of a breeder is to produce the best quality dog possible with each litter. These pups should be beautiful and have the most special personalities yet! You have to love the labradoodle! What a great dog.

We have been busy with family here at the kennel. Two weeks ago we had an 80th birthday party for my dad and then yesterday we had a party with Tom's family celebrate Tom's sister visiting from Colorado!

Today is a quiet day to spend with the dogs!

Saturday morning started early with puppy socialization. 7:30AM Ryan was up playing with labradoodle puppies while his buddies sleep in. Puppy pens were cleaned and moms are already fed and exercised! Working at a kennel is a lot like working at a Dairy farm. There is no sleeping in time. His buddies that spent the night will roll out of bed around 12PM. Go figure.

By 10AM it is off for a bit of breakfast and back to sled dog pups. We have 2 more days with our 12 sled dog pups and then our job is done and they move on to their real owner. We have had some tough times over the past 6 weeks with so many pups. They were a bit under the weather for a short while as was I so we sturggled together. But we all came out of it feeling and looking good! These pups will race throughout the US and Canada on some of the top teams! Ryan and I have chose not to take one of the pups. We have enough dogs of our own and Ryan plans to breed his dog Crush. We will have Chocolate F1B pups in the fall!

Time-----This year I just can't seem to find it. Where does it go? Each day is gone before I know where it started. My sled dog puppies are doing fine. The 12 called Lenna pups and Shelby pups are almost 4 weeks old. Each group is perfectly content with their mothers and aren't in any hurry to leave Acme Creek. The harder I try to teach them to eat on their own, the more they resist! Like children when they are ready it will happen! So I am running around taking care of two litters of 6 sled dogs in each litter and their moms and my little litter of 4 labradoodles.

3 moms--------3 litters--------- so many pups so little time!

Today Chip my labradoodle took a break from momhood and took a bath and grooming. She felt so good to take a break from the kids.

Sorry to my friend that I have to ignore in order to take care of my puppies!

We have a new doodle at our house. Dee Dee Doodle. She came to us as Daisy doodle but we all know there is no room for two Daisy's in our house so we now have a Dee Dee. Her owners have some real life problems going on with their child who has cancer and can't handle a young dog right now so Dee Dee has come to stay. She is all happiness and loves the free space to run and play. We will pray for her family as they struggle right now!

It has been a busy spring. Days just run into each other! We have had a beautiful litter of lab pups. They have all been placed in their wonderful families. Our lst litter of labradoodles start to to their familes on Easter.

We have also been raising a litter of sled dogs for our friends. We have 12 wonderful pups in this litter. 6 have been given to one of our labradors to raise and 6 have stayed with their mom. All are doing well today. We were surprised that Shelby took over the pups as her own.

Daisy and Romeo are exhausted from all the puppy raising. This is their favorite place, sleeping together while I care for pups.

Our newest litter was born today. We have been waiting for these little guys for quite awhile.

Two parti colored males, l black male with a white chest and 4 white feet and two black females with white chests. We have worked for over a year to add the parti color to our litters! Check in if you are interested in these pups. We can't wait to place them with our puppy families!

Spring is close to arriving! We had 12 inches of snow last night which left things beautiful but it is already melting. The dogs love the fresh snow! This was a Monday morning play session at Acme Creek!

The winter has gone by in a flash. While most people think that winter drags on, we dogsledders feel like we blinked and it was over! Lots has happened to us this season. Our quick recap starts with an early winter and trying to get the trails open and keeping them open. It was great to be on the sleds early but we weren't ready with trail grooming equipment. We used to train on a two track type road through an area with oil rigs. This stopped when a semi truck came down the road while we were running dogs. Ryan and his team were almost wiped out. Almost a head on dog team vs truck. Well you get the picture! While the truck was moving slowly it was still a fright to both dogs and Ryan. Wouldn't have expected a semi on that little road!Next came the guy who drove his truck all over our groomed trail and left crater marks 18 inches deep. We could not run the dogs unless we filled 1/4 mile of holes. This happened on 2 different occasions and we had to change our whole trail system in the middle of a snow storm. It was frustrating and made our training difficult. When training to be at the top of your game you must run your dogs several times weekly! Each time something happens to knock off a day of training it takes the edge off your team. The last quirk in the plan was our almost head on collision with our dog truck on the way home from a race. A young driver came into our lane head on. Ryan's quick thinking kept us from a total head on collison but it did take out both front doors and damaged the flat bed on our dog truck. We had some banged up dogs and that took us out of training for most of a week as well. We are glad to report while the boy's car was totaled everyone walked away from the accident. Our dogs are all fine now. The truck is in the shop and one of the dog sleds had quite a bit of damage! Our last race was last weekend and Ryan managed to pull of lst place both days. My team had a bit of trouble the second day so we did not place as high as I would have liked but considering the season I can't complain. We have made some new friends and reconnected with some old friends during the season and that is worth more than any placing at a race! It will be a wonderful season to remeber!

Tomorrow we wil switch gears towards spring and puppies!

The days go by faster than ever! Already heading to the middle of February! Last weekend we raced in Mackinaw City. Ryan was second and I was third in our classes. Not to bad for such a warm day on Sat. We are off this weekend due to the weather. We would have been in Wisconsin but the race is postponed. We hope the weather changes quickly. We will be in Fife Lake next weekend for a training race. Should be alot of fun.

Our lst litter of pups was born yesterday. Six beautiful yellow labs! Peggy/Archie puppies. We have several available for homes! I believe they are the best we have produced in 20 years and we have had some great ones!

We have been busy training sled dogs and racing! Ryan is holding between 2nd and 3rd place in the Internations Sled Dog Association. We have changed a few training strategies and hope they will pay off next weekend! We will be in Mackinaw City. We have enjoyed being home this weekend spending time with our other dogs and family!

We also have a couple new additons to our family. Romeo is our new medium sized (moyen ) poodle. He is 8 weeks old and a happy addition to the breeding program. Darby is our other new dog. We will have a photo of her soon. This addition will allow us to change generations around as well as produce a smaller compact dog and add two colors to our pups.

We have lab pups due next week! We may have Fl Shelby pups due the end of the month although we cannot decide if she is expecting or just chubby! Another week and we will know for sure! Sled dog racing will continue the month of Feb and then its puppy raising time at the kennel. We are even whelping a litter of sled dogs for my friend who won't be home from Alaska until after they are born! This will be a new experience for us!