new homes for Fly’s pups

It only seems a minute ago that I wrote about the arrival of Fly’s pups. It was in fact seven weeks ago, and  since then we’ve been busy with the lambing and the lambing open days. The weeks have gone by in a flash and the pups are now nine weeks old, more than old enough to move onto their new homes.

All seven were given names by my family so that we can identify them. Kate was the first to go at the beginning of  last week. She has gone to Tim, a local friend of mine. I’ve been helping Tim to train sheepdogs since he was 13. Now, 14 years later he’s rather good at it, and he visits with his dogs every week, so we’ll be seeing plenty of Kate. Fred is going to another friend Chris, a little further away. Chris had a puppy from me twelve years ago… Fern’s brother!!

Pup 3 Betty has gone to work on a farm on Exmoor, with nearly 1000 sheep, and pup 4, Buster will be going to another local sheep farmer, Richard (his wife Jo is our dogs vet, so he should be well looked after!)

That leaves 3 pups. Zola, Budd and Colin. I want to keep a couple at Borough Farm to start with, so that I have the best chance possible of keeping a really good worker. One of those to be kept will definitely be Zola, but there is much debate in our house as to whether Budd or Colin is to be the second. Budd looks a lot like his father ( a good thing I think) but Colin is the soppiest, cuddliest, sweetest looking pup of the litter. So the rest of the family have decided that he must be the one to keep!

I’ll let you know what has been decided in a couple of weeks!

here’s Zola and Budd