In April of 2018, we relocated from New Jersey to South Dakota! We and all our animals love it here!
Ricochet and Myla have had their first beautiful litter and we expect many more.  Wonderful place to live!

Our Ginger has retired and will live a life of royal leisure! She has delivered beautiful puppies over her life and brought blessings and love to  many families.

We will be seeing puppies from Ricochet and Myla in the future.  Hopefully, some time in the Spring of 2017.  Since he is black and tan and she is cream, it will be interesting to see what they produce!

In the meantime, we will enjoy our little furry family.

Well, all pups have found their new families and the house is quiet.

But...we have a new puppy ourselves.  We have little Angel Baby from the Arizona pups! She will live with us and grow up to become Ricochet's mate!  Ginger will be retired after her next litter.

So, another fun time with lots of pups has now become a fun time with a little girl.

We'll update as we go.

Here we are at day 2!  Healthy, plump, little red sable girls.  Doing what 2 day old babies do, sleeping, eating and, well, you know.  Mama has left them to go outside and to eat some food, but mostly stays with them, keeping them warm and cozy.
They both have some white on their chests, one more than the other and they will be marked like black and tan dachshunds with lighter legs, underbelly and face markings.  We'll keep you posted as they grow!

Ginger started to have contractions in the early evening.  They stopped for a few hours.  Around 7 pm, they began again sporadically around 8 pm and she had her first around 8:30, the next one followed about a half hour later.  She is a good little mama.  She cleaned them and tucked them into her.
I stayed up in case she had more, but that was all.  I went to bed at 1:30 am and was awakened by commotion!  Puppy crying!  I threw off the covers and ran into the living room, picked up the top of the crate and...only one puppy!  Ginger came from behind me and ran into the crate!  "Where's your baby?" I asked her.  She ran out and over to the basket with the stuffed animal toys...there it was, all tucked in!  So, I retrieved it and put it back into the crate and she cuddled them again.
   We are keeping all warm with a "snugglesafe" heatpad under the bedding.
   I closed the crate after that and went back to bed. (I also gave her the stuffed animal she had tucked around the baby).  
Looks like we have two little girls!  More details (markings) to follow.

Ginger (top), Penny (middle) and Toby (bottom).  All cuddled together!  Only four more days to go.  We expect the puppies around the 18th.

Ginger's crate is ready (she chooses to have puppies in the crate).  There is a new liner in it that feels like fleece and has bumpers around the sides to keep little pups from moving too far.  We will be placing a heat pad (warmed in the microwave and covered up to have just enough heat to keep the babies warm at all times).  The crate will be placed in a back corner of the living room, next to the couch, but behind an end table so the we can access it, but our three year old grandson cannot.  We will be keeping a close eye on our little mother from now on and for a while after the babies are born.  We'll keep you posted!