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Puppies and kiwi fruit

So here is the thing.  We have puppies here at Granite Glen.

They arrived soon after we returned from our mega America trip.

While Dash and Violet visit the shed that houses these five little canines and their (serial) Mama Cruel at least once a day, I have been doing my best to AVOID visiting them.  I hate getting attached to animals that I KNOW won’t be staying on with us here…  I am way too soft and sentimental.  And there is very little cuter in this universe than puppies.

But this weekend, I caved.

Violet had a little friend sleeping over.  And she brought her two sisters for the afternoon. And they went to inspect the pups. So her Mother and Violet’s mother went along too…

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Oh dear.
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Oh for Heaven’s sake…

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Stop it already…

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You ARE kidding me…

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Stop. Stop. STOP!

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Not the pink Ugg boots!!

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Noooooooo!!!!

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Even Axel got in on the inspection.

His head was twice the size of these six-week-old cattle pups.

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He wasn’t quite as impressed. (Can anything look as confused and appealing and mournful as a Dane? “Why are you playing with those little rats instead of me?”)

Or perhaps he has ESP?

Perhaps he suspects something about a vet visit and a certain ‘little op’ we have scheduled for tomorrow morning.

(Lord knows we don’t want any little Great Dane-crosses around the ridges here. As obscenely cute as that might be!)

I just hope that he forgives me for scheming to annex his *ahem* kiwifruits.

Wish me luck.

In trepidation.

Axel’s Mama.

PS Anyone needing a good working cattle pup, drop me a line.

(It’s ‘pickup only’ for all you over-the-waves jokers!)

15 Comments

  • Colin (HB)

    BB – what on earth was the breeding, if any, of the mother, correct terminology – “Bitch” in dog talk!
    Yes, as you, so delicately put it, the “kiwi fruits” of the Great Dane will have to be “put to slumber”!
    Lets hope that Freddie and Mary in Copenhagen don’t see your wonderful blog reports, they may not be amused with the “kiwi fruit removals”. ha ha!
    You, “better half”, Dash and Violet, may be stopped at the airport in beautiful Copenhagen, the best of the best places I did visit.
    You can blame that big randy Great Dane!
    Cheers
    Colin (HB)

  • debby

    The one peering over Dash’s shoulder is the sweetest dang thing. I’m kind of thinking that Axel’s question will be why is he the one getting fixed if Cruel is the one procreating wrecklessly all over Granite Glen?

  • Paint Girl

    Gotta be the cutest cattle pups too! So darn adorable!! I would have the same problem if I ever had a litter of pups, would want to keep them all!! I’m such a softie…..

  • Colin (HB)

    Oh dear!
    Wait till the Royals in Copenhagen see this! You will never get to see “The Little Mermaid”, and by God, she is little. I walked past her for ages, trying to find her! A local had to point her out, maybe I was expecting to see something the size of the Eiffel Tower?
    Anyhow, the way dogs are “kiwi fruit nutted”, isn’t painful, or is it??????
    Shudder, shudder!
    Cheers
    Colin (HB)

  • Nancy in Iowa

    Oh, poor Axel! I’ll never look at another Kiwi fruit the same way again! Those puppies are cute – and how many of them slept with the girls this weekend?

  • Bush Babe

    PLEASE NOTE: All puppies now have homes. *whew!*

    ALSO PLEASE NOTE: Axel has recovered from his surgery. He is slightly lazier and marginally less inclined to jump the fence. I do think he needs kiwifruit prostheses though. The word ‘sad sack’ could have been invented for him!
    🙂

  • Carol Alex

    Well, here I am in 2011, still reading and nobody knows or cares but me, LOL! Poor baby dog, no kiwi’s. I am lovin’ this trip to our country that you are on. I haven’t been to New Yaawk myself but You wouldn’t find me at the top of any of those buildings. I don’t do heights, period.

    Carol

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