Good-Bye Sweet "Sprite"

We had ourselves another busy morning around here with The "Checkerboard Aussies".  Another of the Fabulous Four 2013 pups were waiting patiently for their Forever Home Humans to come take them home.  In the meantime .....

"Lunette and Sprite had themselves some fun and adventures outside in the beautiful warm Sun while we all waited.  

"Follow me Sprite, I will show you something else I found out there ..."

"I am so cute and lovable, why do I have to wait 2 more weeks to go to my Forever Home???  while Sprite gets to go today???"

Alas it wasn't much longer until Sprite's new Forever Home Humans, Sara and Garret appeared in their vehicle.

"With much patience with the wait as a little Red Tri Aussie girl can have, she finally was very happy to be cuddled up in her new Mama's arms."

We have since heard from Sara they all made it home safely with Sprite being "stuck like glue" to Sara.  The initial first meeting with her new Aussie Male friend, Cola, apparently went very well too.

After an afternoon of being out, I returned and had some cuddles with Lunette on the step, along with Bandit.

"She not only got lots of cuddles, I even showed her how to use a Blackberry.  Really you didn't know Australian Shepherds were that smart, did you?"

Cindy, Owner/Breeder, The "Checkerboard Aussies".

Very First Medication

 Today the "Checkerboard Aussies" Fabulous Four were 4 weeks old.  Time to administer their very first worming medication to them and to Mama Lexus, so we can have all those nasty worms, that go along with Mama's milk, gone before it is time for everyone to go to their Forever Homes by Easter Weekend.

Speaking of Forever Homes, I received an email from Bindi's Forever Home this morning telling me he was feeling a little jealous that Semah's Forever Family got to come see him, and that there had also been so many other photos of the other's faces then Bindi's on their Facebook Page.  Well we most certainly could not have this be the case now could we? as we are to treat each and every little one equally with the same amount of attention, right Mike?

Since we were administering the medication individually by syringe to each and every one any how, we decided to do a little photo shoot at the same time.

"This would be Mike's Bindi girl.  This surely made him happy this morning when I had posted this to the "Checkerboard Aussies" Facebook page for him.  Why can't Mike come visit before Bindi is ready to go home at 8 weeks old? well it is because he lives 5 hours away, and a 10 hour round trip might be a little wearing on a person every weekend I would think.  This was the best we could do, and I think we captured exactly what he wanted to see, and more."

Since Semah was "star" material and held the spotlight in yesterday's blog post, we made it all about the girls today.

"Sprite is being kissed by her Mama Lexus, as well as being shown in the bottom right hand corner, with Lunette being pictured in the top right hand corner.  Really it is too much sweetness all in one bunch is it not?"

They are all good now with the worming medication being administered again at 6 weeks and 8 weeks of age.  By that time they will be off to their very first visit with the Vet and then their Forever Homes.

The "Checkerboard Aussies", Fabulous Four.