June 5, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Agility

Bought some agility equipment this week – Torsa has loved doing this in the past but we struggled to get along to the classes – and set it up in the garden – lots of fun

May 26, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Family Photos

Cant believe how quickly the last 8 weeks have gone and that the first of our babies will be leaving us for their new homes this weekend.

Spent a while today trying to get a family photos with limited success. These babies would rather be playing that posing for the camera.

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3 weeks old

April 4, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Star Wars Puppies

So proud to say that Torsa has had her puppies, a beautiful litter of 6 big puppies, 3 boys (2 black, 1 liver) and 3 girls (2 black and 1 liver). All doing really well and Mum is just fantastic, so proud of her.

This is our Star Wars litter so welcome to Obi-Wan, Yoda, Shmi, Rey, Chewbacca and Leia (I have resisted calls for Darth Vadar, Darth Maul and Kylo Ren 😒)

March 24, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Torsa

Torsa taking a rest on our walk this afternoon. She’s looking good given her pups are due in just a week’s time

March 20, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Happy Birthday

Cant believe our Lord of the Rings babies are one year old today. We wish them all a happy birthday

February 4, 2016 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Fingers and toes crossed for an Easter Litter

So excited to say that our lovely Torsa (Craigachan Diamond Queen) has been mated with the adorable and handsome Steig (Almanza Rush Your Engines to Levliann) and we have fingers crossed for a litter around Easter 2016. Steig is a liver dog and with Torsa a liver carrier we expect this litter to be a mix of black and liver. The inbreeding coefficient will be a low 2.9%, well below the breed average (7.4%)

August 9, 2015 by Craigachan Flatcoats

In the genes!

Very pleased to say that we’ve just had DNA test results back from the lab in Canada to confirm that Torsa carries the liver gene. Excited at the prospect of a mixed litter of pups sometime next year…..

July 27, 2015 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Pedigrees

Ive always been interested in genealogy and decided to try recording the dogs pedigree in my genealogy program. It works pretty well but some limitations in naming – person, husband, wife and marriage – not so relevant to dogs and breeding. If you can ignore all that however it works ok to record the lineage and it’s just something I find interesting.
MacFamilyTree allows an upload you can see here

June 15, 2015 by Craigachan Flatcoats

Puppy Updates

Cant believe how quickly time is passing. All our puppies are now well settled in their new homes, our home is so quiet again, we all miss the puppy cuddles but it’s been lovely to get regular updates and find out how they are all getting on.