Oisin at the Dog Show

Oisin spent the weekend at the Ingham County Kennal Club show in East Lansing. He is in the "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" phase of his show career, winning Reserve Winners Dog both days. This is basically 2nd place among the male dogs entered.

He did have fun so that is what is most important.

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Liam and Oisin

Liam likes his GrandPuppies, (he is especially fond of Miatias), but sometimes they need to be instructed in the proper respect for their elders.

Here, he is "discussing" the matter with Oisin, who takes the lesson well.

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Maitias

Maitias is able to go out without his shirt, at last


Several months ago Maitias had minor surgery on his right foreleg. Being the typical Irish Wolfhound puppy he tore out the stitches, twice, despite being in a shirt and watched all the time.


That left us with being forced to let the wound heal "by secondary intent." Wearing the shirt was no problem for Maitias, but keeping the shirt on him and changing the shirt daily was a pain. Although we tried to keep his sedate (everyone can laugh a lot now, he is a puppy) he would unroll his sleeves, step on them and then fall over.

You can also see that he is wearing a sock on his tail to allow his "happy tail" to heal. He doesn't like that and wants to pull off the sock and chew his itchy tail. I guess one could say that he is "high maintenance" now.

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Maitias and "Fairies"

Miatias had minor surgery to remove a benign lump from his elbow. Here he is in his super-cool T-shirt with the cordura patch on the elbow (to keep him from scratching the wound open.


We moved him up with the older dogs into the living room/bedroom to better keep an eye on him and he and Liam (his Grand-Sire) have become best buddies. Wherever Liam goes, so goes Maitias.

The milkweed pods have opened making "fairies" that float on the breeze.


When the dogs run through them there is an explosion of white.


Bidelia caught some; or they got caught on her beard.



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Vacation

It would seem that a staycation would be a good time to write a blog entry - not true. But, all is well and we will post more pictures next week.

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Liam:

Liam continues to recover from his bloat surgery and is doing quite well. Here he is with Bidelia.

Bidelia, while the smallest (and only girl) of the litter, is getting to be good size.

Here she is jumping on a 6' gate, with Maitias beside her.

Bidelia, Oisin, and Maitias, running back to Dad.

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No news is good news

Thank goodness it was a quit week at the Hounds of Heaven.
A few pictures to share:

Oisin, following his Uncle Finian

Oisin, practicing his wolf hunting skills, on Maitias, who is less than pleased.

In turn, Oisin being instructed on how not to be so big a pest, by Liam. Liam continues to make a great recovery.

Oisin, "Ok, I will be a good boy."

"Until you turn your back !"

Liam with the puppies, in the morning mist.

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