Erlina, week 2

It has been so long since we had a singleton puppy that we forgot how much work "just one puppy" is. As she is too small to pay with the adults, and has no littermates to play with, she requires a LOT of time and attention.

Here she is stalking an invisible beast and being stalked by Bidelia, with Rhiona and Saoirse watching.

She is small, but really fast ! We again had to learn the "puppy shuffle," walking without picking up your feel far enough for her to scoot under. But she is cuddly and loving and only sometimes uses her really sharp puppy teeth to grab us.

She seems to have doubled her size and weight in the last week. We really need to get out the scale and see.

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Erlina !

Ah ! Puppy Breath


Tenderlands Erlina of Heaven is the newest Hound of Heaven. She is 8 weeks old and weighs 19 pounds.

With much gratitude to Donna and Bob Robinson of Tenerland Farms who bred her.

CH Hounds of Heaven Liam is her Sire and CH Tenderlands Ann-E Of Manasota is her Dam.

Rhianon and Phillie make her acquaintance.

Oisin is just not sure what to make of her.

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Liam at 9

Here is a picture of Liam, shortly after his 9th birthday.



Nine years old is quite old for an Irish Wolfhound. It is generally reported that the average lifespan of an Irish Wolfhound is 7. We have been fortunate to usually have our hounds live longer.

As he aged, Liam developed a quite characteristic weakness in his rear legs. The harness you see in the picture is so we can (more or less easily) help him stand when he gets info a position with his legs splayed out and so he can go upstairs to Bill's office (more accurately, so his descent can be controlled safely).

A curious side effect of wearing the harness (or perhaps the stair descent) is that his strength of his rear legs has improved to the point that he no longer needs to wear his traction boots. Hmmmm.........

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