Check our website to see Ava.  Ava is almost 6 years old and has come to live with us.  Ava was owned by good friend and very long time exhibitor breeder of champion Wheaten Terriers, Jocelyn Slatin in Prescott.  9 years ago when I got interested in the Lagotto, Jocelyn agreed to support my interest in the breed and imported Ava (di Federici Aida at Jamboree) from Italy.  Ava was followed by another girl a year later, also imported from Italy.

I helped Jocelyn by picking up Ava from the airport, by grooming and showing Ava (who has her adult international championship with IABCA) and even taking her on a road trip to Texas.  We have always loved Ava so it was natural for us to take her into our home when her owner was no longer able to care for her.  Ava had two litters a few years ago.  With her lovely temperament and OFA Excellent hips, we wanted her to have another litter.  We have just accomplished a breeding with Angelus mei Barbelo and are now hoping to have a successful mating.  Check our website for photos of Ava and Barbelo.
Our Lagotto website

Our boy Massimo, left with his new human on Friday.  Guess who was super lonely and cried and cried that night.  She was much better last night.  After our super warm days, our weather has turned to rain and fog so she can't go out much and burn up energy with the other dogs.  Hopefully we will get our sun back tomorrow and we can take her out to play.

And now there are two.  This little girl is now on her way to Oregon.  Her owner is an avid hunter of mushrooms and wants to add truffles to his list of fungi.  She will get lots of hiking time in the forest.  Here she is in a crate for the first time wondering what is happening to her.  She doesn't know it yet but she is going to have a fabulous life with this family.

Mama says "no free lunch" anymore kids!  Ginna jumps up on the crate in the dog run and scolds and play bites at the pups to remind them they are big dogs now and have to eat like the others.  You can't blame them for trying, and they keep it up until she assures them, she isn't going to allow it.

Mom teaches the puppies to have manners, so I like her to go out and play with the puppies when it is warm enough.   The puppies love to be outdoors where they have 35' dog runs to stretch out their legs and really run, run, run!

Wellness checks for the puppies on Tuesday.  It is always fun to bring in puppies to the vets, and there are lots of smiles to go around.  Puppies are 8 weeks today, Wednesday.

Here is our boy Massimo with the vet, Dr. Frank.

Next is our orange girl giving the tech a big kiss.

Dr. Frank loves puppies and has fun checking them over.  This is our grey girl.

We are keeping Pesca (Peach) so I will take her in for her checkup next week when she is 9 weeks old and ready for her first vaccines.  Here is her picture, just because she is so cute.  Grey girl is in front and Massimo is her pillow.

It was a nice afternoon on Monday so we decided to take the puppies outdoors for the first time.  I  had raw chicken wings for them to eat.  They mostly licked them but they kept busy for quite a long time.  They were ready for a nice long nap once back indoors.

Puppy videos

I tried to upload a couple of short videos of the puppies playing, but no success.  I have loaded them up on youtube and will put the links in this place instead.  We had 3 different families visiting on Saturday and then our Cosmo and  his Tucson family came up for some grooming.  Cosmo is going to help us with Judge's Education at the end of January.  More about that later.

Here is video of puppies at play at 5.5 weeks

http://youtu.be/mIKJzKpDksU

Here is the link to the first trip on the baby slide and a cute close up of Massimo, our boy.

first trip down the slide