BooBoo and Harley Litter

BooBoo Harley Litter Certification

This Litter is Certified NCL and PRA CLEAR. For details on what this means see DASHaHOUND GUARANTEE
This litter boasts 34 champions in their 6 generation pedigree!!

Reservations:
Kelly Salcedo litter pick

8 Week Pictures

More like 7 1/2 weeks, still getting lighter all the time. My name is Hope and I am Kelly's puppy. I get to meet her Sunday Morning in California. Wow. She and Rebecca are coming to pick me up in Hemet. Whoo Hoo!!

What is that spot? Hey who's there?? Aren't I regal looking?

7 Wk Pictures

More like 6 1/2 weeks, still getting lighter all the time. My name is Hope and I am Kelly's puppy. I go to meet her in California in less than 2 weeks. Wow. I am so happy. I love to play and I just know she will play with me.

Hmmm nice toy. Hey who's there?? Oh, hi Rat-Rat kitty, want to play?

6 Week Pictures

More like 5 1/2 weeks, I just keep getting lighter all the time. My name is Hope and I am Kelly's puppy. I go to meet her in California this month. Wow. She is very excited and so am I. She says "I come from the best breeder in the world". Pretty high praise. I hope they can live up to that. :-) Thanks for the kind words Kelly.

5 Week Pictures

More like 4 1/2 weeks, I am getting lighter all the time. My name is Hope and I am Kelly's puppy. Whoo hoo!! She is telling all her friends about me and bragging so much it makes me blush. :-)

4 Week Pictures

More like 3 1/2 weeks, I am getting lighter all the time. Kelly says my name is Hope. I like that. I hope Kelly likes me, I am really getting beautiful and see how creamy?

3 Week Pictures

More like 2 1/2 weeks, my eyes are open now! Notice how much I have lightened already!! I will be mostly cream with some black shading before you know it.

Almost all of the black is gone from my head already.

2 week pictures

More like 1 1/2 weeks, my eyes aren't quite open yet, maybe next week. I am asleep, thanks dad for not waking me up.

Shaded cream girl: Sleeping Beauty. Don't worry about the red you see. I am still being photographed indoors with a flash. Notice I am already beginning to lighten. I will be mostly cream with some black shading before you know it.

1 Week Pictures

Tragedy struck the BooBoo litter. We lost both of the little boys. BooBoo did not have enough milk to support the 3 puppies. In spite of Roberta supplementing with bottle feeding every two hours, the two boys did not make it. The little girl was the most robust and competitive. She is alive and well. It is amazing how fast a new puppy can fade. You check them at night and all are fat and fine. The next morning one is cold and thin. You bottle feed him and check him every two hours. He seems to be gaining ground then is gone. No one could have tried harder or done more to save these little guys. The puppies NEED mom's colestrum for the first 48 hours. This is the down side of breeding. There is always some sickness and death. The good part is there is also always new life.

Well the little girl is healthy and strong. She is very pretty. Notice how dark she appears. The camera adds any red, she is almost gray. Most of the black shading puppy hair will come out and the cream undercoat will show. She will look like Blondie and Candy, light cream with some shading. She is triple reserved. lol. Hang in there everyone we have 3 litters of English Creams coming. Note that the Ebony litter is English Cream too, just black and cream instead of cream. If they did not have the Chinchilla series gene the black and creams would ahve been black and tan and the creams in this litter would have been red.

1 Week picture: Beautiful BooBoo shaded cream girl.

Newborn Litter

Whelped April 22nd, 2009. Not to be outdone by her sister Ebony, what a nice litter. Two boys and a girl. Beautiful little English Creams. Remember, all English Creams are born dark (except those who also have the ee gene series which blocks the black hair) and then turn light. These puppies will be colored like Blondie and Candy. They will be light English Cream but will retain some black "shading" on their ears, tails or back. The amount and location of the shading will vary from dog to dog.

Here is what we learn from this litter.
1. Harley does not (likely) carry the ee gene. Since BooBoo is ee and none of the puppies are, Harley must be EE. This makes all of the puppies Ee. The ee gene blocks ALL black hair and the puppy is born light cream. Normally English Creams are born dark, almost black and then turn Cream as the black puppy hair falls out and the cream undercoat shows through.
2. BooBoo does not (likely) carry for Black and Tan. Both of her parents (Ruby and Preston) did but she did not get the at gene. Her Agouti gene series is ayay - red, red. If she did not have the Chinchilla gene chch she would be red herself and so would her puppies but the Chinchilla gene turns the red to English Cream. We know this because Harley is atat (black with tan points) but none of the puppies are black and cream. So each puppy MUST be ayat - red carrying for black and tan and chch for Chinchilla dilution. If she did carry the at gene at least one puppy would (likely) have been atat = black and tan. Then the chch Chinchilla dilution would have turned the tan points cream and we would have had a black and cream.

BooBoo and Harley Litter

BooBoo has 17 Champions in her 5 generation pedigree and Harley boasts International Champion Brandach's Mr. Goodbar, Canadian Champion Billie of Brandach along with several other Rose Farms and Stoneleigh Champions for a total of 17 champions in his 5 generation pedigree. Harley will be a champion in his own time. In all the litter boasts a 34 Champion 6 generation Litter PEDIGREE

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"BooBoo" at 11 weeks "HARLEY" at 12 weeks

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Shown here as 11 and 12 week puppies to give you an idea what your puppy might look like about the age you bring it home. You can learn more about either parent on their own page and also see them in action in the slide flash show.

BooBoo has grown into a real beauty. She is a light EE cream. EE creams have no black hair at all and are rare. Harely is an incredible Black and Cream. For those of you who do not know, a black and cram is 100% English Cream. The English Cream gene is the Chinchilla gene. To be English Cream, a dog must have two Chinchilla genes. A dog who would otherwise have been red (BooBoo) comes out cream, a dog who would otherwise have been black and tan (Harley) comes out black and cream. The Chinchilla gene has no effect on black. So both of these parents are 100% English cream and can only produce Creams, shaded creams or black and creams, all of which are 100% English Cream. The E series gene that BooBoo has eliminates all shading. There must be two EE genes for this to take effect. We know BooBoo has two but do not know if Harley has one or not. So we do not kinow if any of the litter will be EE creams or not. If not, they will be shaded creams andor/ black and creams. These puppies will be EXTRAORDINARY. We expect some show quality English Creams. This will be a "pricey" litter but worth it if you are looking for a high quality English Cream line puppy.

You hear a lot about temperament but until you EXPERIENCE the differences you can not appreciate them. Harleyis the original "mellow fellow". He is sweet and never fights with others. Even as a little tyke, NOTHING fazed him. If the other puppies growled at him he simply ignored them. He was not intimidated; it was as though it was beneath him to bother to reply. You could hold him in your lap and pet him or watch TV and he would stay still. Yet he can play fetch with the best of them.

BooBoo is moderate temperament, not as wild as her mother nor calm as her father. She is a beautiful blend of both. She is a wonderful dog and her litter will be loving, active, independent and yet controllable. She is loving and she shows it.

There are no guarantees and individual puppies can vary greatly but we expect their puppies to be a mix of ACTIVE and MATURE. By MATURE I mean they will hold still to let children pet them and behave well very early. Many puppies are so active and silly they can not be much company for a year or longer. Active puppies are good for young children because they wear each other out but are harder to deal with for the first year. Even mature puppies have abundant energy and can play and fetch, etc. it is just that they will calm down and hold still. Active puppies are almost always in motion. With BooBoo being active and Harley being mellow we expect to get some of each. These two dogs also compliment each other physically.

We try very hard to give each owner a realistic expectation of the puppy they adopt. We do not have any mean or ill tempered dogs. We will not tolerate a trouble maker and certainly will not include it in our breeding program, no matter what the pedigree. Some bad or aggressive behavior is learned and some inherited, we try to start you with the best temperament possible to give you that head start.