Mrs Peabody

No dog will ever take Quozzi's place but here we have Mrs Pea

body .This is Quozzi's niece ,George is her father as you will see she has inherited his colouring and Pip is her mother. She lives near the house and kitchen door so she gets extras, a sausage or egg that maybe left from breakfast time. She has started going out with the big dogs in the field and is very much a character.She takes the limelight from her brother who was registered Cuckavalda Snipe and has taken on the name of Mr Peabody .So confusing this name lark. Fam de Peabody are not for sale.

Walkies...

When we have a litter of pups we like them to get out and about as much as they can. Jack takes the up the field and they love it. An added bonus when the sun is shining. They hunt head down and are now starting to venture up the hillside into the wood.One eggs another on. A bit of rough and tumble here as they come galloping down the field and back for a feed. This is repeated at least 4 times a day.

Fox Red Labrador pups.....

These happy ,healthy pups are now fully weaned. They have started carrying light things about.They go for walks all together up the field and love to roll about. Already they have an exploring nature and turn up their noses to sniff the air.The sunshine has come at just the right time as they like nothing better to stretch out warming in the sun. Each having

its own character.They are KC registered having the Cuckavalda Prefix. We are keeping Red Gin and Red Tonic and Turk. Two girls and a boy.

Optigen test for Mabel and Cas

Before we have their hips/elbows scored and after they have had their eyes tested we have to make sure the young dogs are PRA clear which means a blood test that goes to America to Optigen to be tested. Some of our youngsters are herd clear but we bought Leadburn Mabel adn although her mother who belongs to Billy Steel snr was the sire who is FTCH Hillus Clyde isnt.Fortunately she passed as did a young yellow dog called Cas. Next is the hips scores it is like waiting for your 11 plus exam results to come through.

Eye tests for Young Labradors

A trip up to Barnard Castle for these 4 young Labradors to be examined by Stuart Ellis. Fortunately they all passed with flying colours. We had some very good fish and chips for our lunch and here you see them watching me as I walked back to the pickup.They had to wait until they got home before they got feed.

Fox red Labrador puppies doing well.

4 weeks old and tucking into solid food. Tara has done a brilliant job feeding 11 pups .All even in size with no help from us for the first 2-3 weeks. Now they are happily starting to explore and we are making the difficult choice of who we are keeping. Cuckavalda Red Gin is one and now looking for Tonic. We try to use a different sounding name to shout. When they are older they will go out and about with the others. This year we have also kept two young cockers Peabody and Snipe and 2 Labradors -Betty and Flag.

Tara breaks a record

Cuckavalda Touch of Gold -better known as Tara has just had 11 puppies -6 girls and 5 boys so as even as you can get a litter. The sire was Copperbirch Winnebego better known as Rollo. Both have outstanding pedigrees. We bred Tara over 3 years ago and this is her first litter of pups. Many on the shooting field will have seen her as she very rarely missed a day when she didn't go picking up and Rollo notched up 100 days picking up which is some feat in itself. She is an amazing bitch and looks like an amazing mother too.She has 0/0 hips even though she used to jump 5 bar gates when she was only 5 months old. You can see her in action when she was about a year old on YouTube.