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Posted By Dia on February 23, 2011

Poor Bear.

He’s been hold­ing up pretty well liv­ing in a house­hold of females.  We’re a ten being household: four female dogs, two female cats and me; Bear and two geri­at­ric male cats.

We knew Nellie was sup­posed to go into heat in January and we were THRILLED when she didn’t (what with one thing and another, this was a very crazed January and a female in heat would have been that one bridge too far), but we had no idea when Phoenix might go into heat.

So is it any sur­prise that Phoenix went into her second heat last Thursday (that’d be about 8 months – not as long a cycle as I’d prefer but pretty aver­age) and then MONDAY Nellie fol­lowed her into heat?

Bear spends a lot of time at work sud­denly.  I expect he’ll re-emerge in three weeks, once every­one is done with all this girly-girl stuff.

I haven’t checked with Jan, but this is a slightly longer than expec­ted inter­val for Nellie so I’m tent­at­ively say­ing we’ll be look­ing at Nellie & <insert mys­tery dog’s name here> pup­pies in early 2012 (oooo – magic 2012 puppies!).

Phoenix will be 2 in July and we plan to breed her at her next heat which SHOULD be October.  We’ve been day­dream­ing about pos­sible mates, now it’s time to really look at genet­ics, as well as local dogs that we (Jan, Dia and the Miracle fam­ily) want added in to the Miracle lines and start talk­ing to some folks out here.

You can bet some of these pup­pies will be winging their way back to beau­ti­ful Canada, and we’re thrilled to be col­lab­or­at­ing with Jan to intro­duce size, move­ment and bone that might oth­er­wise be dif­fi­cult to integ­rate, con­sid­er­ing the dis­tances involved.

If you’re inter­ested in one of these spe­cial pup­pies, it’s not too early to get in touch to start the dialogue.

And any of the guys out there that can relate to poor, over­whelmed Bear, he’d LOVE to hear from you.

Categories: General Dogs, Shiloh Shepherd
Tags: Breeding, Dog Health, Shiloh Shepherd