I lied.  I have some secret new family members at Sundog Ranch.  They are a litter of three week old Golden Retrievers.  Let’s just call them the THE SUNDOG BABIES for now.  They are babies of our Miss Maisie Rose and her special friend who lives in another town, Black Jack Casanova.  Whenever we have a litter of new Sundogs we have a puppy name theme. This year we have named these babies after American Indian tribes and names.  Here we have Chinook, a big white male with a green ribbon.  He is seen here cuddling with Tenaya, a girl,  in lavender.   As you can see they are very comfortable with each other.

Are they some of the cutest things you have ever seen?  At this stage it is hard for me to get anything done around the house.  I just want to watch them, hug, smell and kiss them all day.

Here goes Tenaya.  She is on the move.  She has places to go.   She likes to do this and yelp at the same time every morning around 6 am.  WAKE UP everybody.

Here we have Shoshoni in the our farmers market basket.  He was not into this photo shoot.  Please let me go back to my whelping box and sleep who ever you are with that big black thing in my face.

Here is Shoshoni again showing his pretty golden color.  He’s under a tiny huddle BEFORE the crazy lady with the camera whisked him away to the basket. He is smothered by our little Ahwahnee with the yellow ribbon.

Here is Ahwahnee showing his size.  He too wants to go back to sleep in this photo.  If fully awake he would of been out of this bowl in a second.  We think Ahwahnee is so tiny because he was a little premature.  Some how the biological parts of his mom and dad must have hooked up later in the game.  He has not quite woken up like his siblings YET and one eye is still closed so say your prayers for him that he is just a little behind and will catch up in no time.

Here we have Lakota.   He thought hanging out in the basket was just fine.

Mom is checking to make sure he is OK.

Next we have our big girl Cheyenne.  She too was cool with the basket but soon became bored and tired so after this photo shoot back to the whelping box for everybody.

Here I am.

Here I am again in a slightly different pose, showing off my new claws.

I’ve had enough, out of the basket.

Time for a nap again.  That photo shoot in the basket was hard work.