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Buddy and Mirabelle's first Show!

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:19:35 +0100

Both pups did their first show together under the watchful eye of mummy Nova and daddy Rupert!
Both did really well (so did the parents!) but Buddy was the star of the day winning Best Puppy in Breed as well as a puppy Group 4!!!!
Here is a picture of the handsome buddy:

And a great family portrait that we did on the day! Thank you Yulia for the fabulous pictures!

March Update!

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:20:59 +0100

Sorry for not updating more regularly!
We have had a very busy but lovely beginning of the year. Mirabelle makes us laugh everyday and we are always so happy to hear news from Buddy!
CRUFTS was lovely and despite Nova being qualified, we left her home as she has not quite grown back her coat since the pups (it's slowly but surely coming back... very slowly though!)
Mirabelle, Nova, Buddy and Rupert (and Uncle Felix) are all entered in a show in April so I will post some reunion pictures then :)
Also Nova has just celebrated her third birthday with a lovely walk with brother Sam, sisters Socks and Millie and loads of toller friends.
I will try and update more regularly!

Christmas Holidays

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:21:57 +0100

The girls and ourselves would like first to wish you all a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year!!!

Nova came with us in France whilst Mirabelle stayed on holiday with family members here in London.
When we came back, we took Mirabelle and Nova to Wales. On the way we stopped to visit Buddy.
It was really great to see them all play together, they hit it off instantly and had a lovely time.
After a little incident involving, Mirabelle, a box of chocolate and the emergency vet: we arrived in Wales.
We had a wonderful relaxing time there and once more the girls got to enjoy running free on the beach.
On our return, Coffee was extremely pleased to see us!

Buddy has gone to his forever home!

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:56:13 +0100

On Saturday, Buddy was collected by his new family. It was quite hard to see him go but it was also so great to see how happy his family was to finally take him home.
Here is a picture of the kids and Buddy in the car before setting off.

Buddy is really enjoying his new garden and seem to have settled really well in his new home.

I feel so lucky that we found such a great home for him and I am looking forward to see his progress in his new home.

Puppies update!

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:06:54 +0100

The pups are growing fast! 6 weeks already and in 2 weeks Buddy will be going to his home.
You will find a lot of pictures if you click on the litters tab and then on the Nova X Ruppert 2010 link.
Both pups are adorable and full of life. I am having endless fun with them and is enjoying every moments. Nova is a cracking mum attentive, playful and gentle.
Here is a couple of my favourite recent pictures and it really capture the fun we are having:

The puppies are here!!!

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:12:10 +0100

Nova gave birth on Friday to her 3 puppies. Unfortunately the first one was stillborn. It was a really sad and scary moment as we feared the worse for the remaining pups and for Nova.
But we were allowed to forget about our pain very soon with the arrival of both the lovely Mirabelle and the handsome BuddyBear.
Mirabelle is smaller but really active, god she can scream! Even the vet said he had never seen a pup scream and crawl so fast literally as she was out!
BuddyBear is more relax and a little greedy thing, you should see the strength in his neck when he is having a feed!
I am posting a few pictures below. And will soon set up a gallery on the website specially for them!

MIRABELLE

BUDDYBEAR

Update on Nova

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:43:23 +0100

Nova was successfully mated about a week ago. It all went extremely well. Obviously it is far too soon to tell if she is pregnant or not but we are hoping for the best.
We are planning to do a scan mid-august to confirm the pregnancy!!! How exciting!!!!

In the meantime, she is enjoying a lot of home training with her little sister Coffee. Here is our latest trick "over the dog":

It's so much fun to see them both interact!
Nova would also like to announce the launch of her sister's website: www.catclikertrain.com We are hoping it will help other families to work through the initial introduction period with their cats and dogs. We had our moments of doubts and almost gave up on the dream of both of them getting along, but see the result! It was so worth it!
Hopefully the website will provide comfort, because it is very much achievable!!!
It also provide information on how to clicker train your cat!

New best friends

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:07 +0100

It took just under 2 weeks to progressively introduce Nova to her new friend Coffee. We chose to do a progressive and positive introduction to maintain the cat's confidence and teach Nova to curb her chasing instinct.
After about 12 days, they were comfortable being together and this is a picture of them today during their first combined clicker training session this morning. Coffee is learning to sit and Nova is showing the way!

Nova is in season!

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:32:32 +0100

Just as we were taking Coffee the kitten home. Nova got into season. She surprised us a bit as she is a couple of weeks early. (This said it feels like we have been waiting for SO long).
We are now getting everything in place to make sure we succeed in producing a wonderful litter that should be born around mid September!
It is obviously still early days and we have many many obstacles along the way but we hope everyone will keep their fingers crossed for us!

Here is a picture of Nova when she was 6 weeks and we chose her....

New addition to the family!

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:26:50 +0100

Nova got a new "sister" a week ago. A wonderful and very fun tabby cat. We named her Coffee as she was found outside Starbucks and also because we couldn't agree on another name! :)
She is a really amazing cat and is not fazed by Nova's over enthusiastic nature! It is still early days and Nova is going through a lot of training to restrain her natural chasing instincts but we are making progresses every day.
This will be a great socialisation opportunity for the puppies too!
Here is a picture of Coffee:

And here is a picture of what dog's do... well in this case to a very tolerant cat!