BooBoo and Harley Litter 3

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!! PEDIGREE

9 Week Pictures

9 Week Pictures They are a beautiful and healthy litter of English Creams. All are certified clear for PRA and NCL since both parents are. This is a very well behaved litter. They have been in the house for 6 weeks now and they are not noisy. Babbs howled like crazy one time but it turned out she was stung by a scorpion and her face swelled up. I would how too!! Since they are only 10 feet from the couch in our living room I really notice. The smooths and wires seem to be much louder, as a group. This litter, like many of the cream litters, does not howl or whine and that is very good for my sanity. :-)

These pups are old enough to go home now. It is time to make decisions.

There is sure a difference in the pictures depending on the lighting. I used two strobes on some of these and they came out too light. The blond hair blended with the white background. I had to darken them to see the hair at all.

Babbs Shaded Cream Girl I AM ADOPTED BY JEFF AND DIANE Normal pricing for this litter is $1600. These pups are being offerred for $1200 because there were reservations for Candy's pups which sell for $1200 and Candy only had one puppy.

Beauty Black and Cream Girl I was the first to open my eyes!! I am so smart. :-) I AM AVAILABLE FOR ONLY $1200 Normal pricing for this litter is $1600. These pups are being offerred for $1200 because there were reservations for Candy's pups which sell for $1200 and Candy only had one puppy.

Bacchus Shaded Cream Boy will be going to Australia to live with Margarett Keene at Maralya Kennels. He will be a show dog and foundation kennel dog for her.

6 Week Pictures

6 Week Pictures They are a beautiful and healthy litter of English Creams. All are certified clear for PRA and NCL since both parents are. This is a very well behaved litter. They have been in the house for 3 weeks now and they are not noisy. Since they are only 10 feet from the couch in our living room I really notice. The smooths and wires seem to be much louder, as a group. This litter, like many of the cream litters, does not howl or whine and that is very good for my sanity. :-)

Babbs Shaded Cream Girl

Beauty Black and Cream Girl I was the first to open my eyes!! I am so smart. :-)

Bacchus Shaded Cream Boy

Buster Black and Cream Boy Sadly Buster did not survive. He was the smallest and he just faded over time. It was very sad. He was such a sweet little boy. Booboo probably got pregnant multiple times over a 10 day period and he was the last one, therefor the youngest. He was probably not ready when the oldest ones decided it was time to be born. This is common and the main reason a litter varies in size. Roberta did all she could but he just got smaller and weaker.

4 Week Pictures

4 Week Pictures Such pretty puppies and a perfect distribution. 2 boys, 2 girls, 2 black and cream, 2 shaded creams. Notice the creams are starting to lighten. They will lighten and the points on the black and creams will brighten as they grow.

Babbs Shaded Cream Girl

Beauty Black and Cream Girl I was the first to open my eyes!! I am so smart. :-)

Bacchus Shaded Cream Boy

Buster Black and Cream Boy Buster is not doing well. He is fading. Roberta is bottle feeding him but he is half the weight of the others and is struggling. He was not up to having pictures taken today.

2 Week Pictures

2 Week Pictures Beauty has her eyes open and the others are working on it. Such pretty puppies and a perfect distribution. 2 boys, 2 girls, 2 black and cream, 2 shaded creams. Notice how dark the shaded creams are. They will lighten and the points on the black and creams will brighten as they grow.

Babbs Shaded Cream Girl

Beauty Black and Cream Girl I was the first to open my eyes!! I am so smart. :-)

Bacchus Shaded Cream Boy

Buster Black and Cream Boy

Newborn

Whelped April 21st, 2011. 1 year to the day from their last litter.

Here is what we learn from this litter and the previous litters of BooBoo and Harley.
1. Harley does not 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. Note the two Brown puppies. They are English Creams. There is no red tint other than that the camera adds. They are a mousey brown at birth and begin to lighten until they are cream. The other two are Black and cream.
2. BooBoo does carry for Black and Tan. This is great news. They did not have a single Black and Cream puppy the first go around so I thought Boo did not carry for it. Both of her parents (Ruby and Preston) did and it seems she also got the gene. Her Agouti gene series is not ayay - red, red, it is ayat red carrying for black and tan. 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) and Boo has now had a black and cream puppy. As I said last time, 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. Well, this time she did. Last litter she chose not to pass the black pattern to a puppy, this time she did.

Parents

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.

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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.