Collie pups **PICS** - 1 wk old today

[Spiritwind]

The Collie babies are 1 wk old today so thought I'd share some new pictures of them... Sadly we did lose one of the rough tri males on Saturday. I believe he crawled under the blanket that is in the whelping box and got caught up under it while I was gone for a few hours saturday. Thankfuly the other puppies are doing great... and are nice and fat and growing like little weeds!!

I am now pretty sure both blue merle boys are smooths!! So if that is correct we have 4 smooths (2 blue boys, 1 tri boy, 1 tri girl) and 1 rough tri boy. Once they are a bit older and up on their feet I'll get individual pics of them.... but anyway.. here they are at 1 wk old.

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Smooth Blue Boy 1

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Tri smooth girl and blue smooth boy 2

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A group picture - dinner time!!!... again... lol

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Smooth Tri boy - I think he is absolutely beautiful!!! When I am looking at the litter and watching them nurse or just watching them sleep my eye always goes to him!...

[Casper]

Aww! Cuteness overload for sure. http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r310/CheckAgain/t_love.gif
Sorry to hear of the casualty, but I am happy to hear the rest are doing great.
Continue to keep us updated, please. :] I can't wait until they get their eyes open and begin to develop more pronounced personalities.

[Spiritwind]

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Just wanted to share one more picture i just took...thought it was cute with 2 of the puppies sleeping on their backs like their mama does!...lol

[CountryWolf07]

Cute!!!!!! :)

[K9karen]

Aw..I'm so sorry you lost one of the babies. So sad.

But I'm so thrilled the other beauties (gasp!) are doing so well! Hmmm... let me guess which one you'll keep....:p

[buttercup132]

So cute, how do you tell rough and smooth when they are so small?
Maybe it's the pictures but their coats all look the same.

[Spiritwind]

So cute, how do you tell rough and smooth when they are so small?
Maybe it's the pictures but their coats all look the same.


Actually right now you can't go by coat length... the tri-colors are easy to tell, you can tell rough and smooth on them right from birth. Below are pictures of a smooth tri and a rough tri so you can see the difference in the markings on their faces. These pics were taken at about 1 day old.

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This is the smooth tri girl. Smooths have very clear, distinct lines between the black and tan markings on their face.... were as in roughs, which you will see below the markings on the face are much more smutty...

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Rough tri boy - notice the markings on his face aren't as clear

The blue merles are a bit more difficult because the merling on their face is so light its hard tell see the face markings clearly.... and really on the blues I wouldn't say for 100% the blues are smooth, but that is what I THINK they are LOL The reason I am guessing that is.... now that they are 1 wk old, the rough tri boy (and the rough boy we lost on saturday) has a cow lick of fur running down the back of his front legs, where his long hair/feathers will be once he is older..... were as the 2 smooth tri-colors do not have this cow lick of fur running down their legs.... and neither do the 2 blue merle boys... which makes me think they are smooths.... we'll see though, it should be pretty obvious in the next week or 10 days....

[Karen]

Aww, so sorry you lost the one boy.

The other pups, though, are looking fat and happy! I wondered the same thing about telling rough from smooth at this point, thanks for answering that one!

[bckrazy]

GOD, I can barely take all of the cuteness! :eek:

The last picture is just ridiculous. I want to cuddle all of them! Gimme blue boy on the left... seriously. I love the little stripe down his nose.

I'm so sorry about the rough tri baby that you lost. RIP little guy.

[cassiesmom]

RIP little puppy. As for the rest of the puppies -- Precious! Spiritwind, could you give them just a little cuddle for me, please.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Sorry that one didn't make it :(

Please can you give each and every one of them a kiss from me?

[boomersooner]

I love getting my newborn puppy fix everyday. It will be so much fun watching them grow from little eating, sleeping, and pooping balls of fur to little lively, rambunctious. loud pups, each with their own personality.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I'm so sorry to hear that you lost one of the puppies.:( I'm glad that the rest of them are all doing well. They sure are adorable.:)

[Husky_mom]

awwww...... so cute....

sorry about your loss.... it´s really a pain to loose such tiny babies...:(


I´m still on m guess that boy 1 is rough...*crosses fingers* LOL.... whatever they are they are all way too cute!!

thanks for the update pics......can we have more?? :p

[MoonandBean]

Sorry about the lost one. The rest are absolutely adorable! As Boomer's Mom said...can't wait to watch them grow :)

[Spiritwind]

Thanks everyone!!! I just got new batteries for my camera so I may post more pictures of the babies later on this evening....

And of course ya'll know that I will need your help to come up with names (atleast call names!.. have some ideas for reg.names for some of them)... once they are a bit older. I have a call name idea for the "pick" male that I really like... but I'll be keeping that secret just a little longer... not good at coming up with names though, for the most part, so I'll need more help on call names later on LOL

As far as registered names go... The sire of my litter is CH Apple Valley Shades Of Blue - "Ben".

The litter Ben was in, were all named after Jazz Muscians because Ben's sire is CH Capella's Midnight Blues, HIC, ROM - "Memphis". In the litter along with Ben there was the only female named Lena (after Lena Horne), also in the litter was Louie, Fats, Nat etc.etc..etc..

I picked Shades Of Blue for Ben because shades of blue was the title of a CD of Ben E Kings....

Anyway..... Ben's sire Memphis is no longer alive.... Memphis was a GREAT dog and a wonderful producer and the biggest reason I got Ben.. because I wanted a show puppy sired by Memphis... Memphis was ranked as one of the top 10 smooths in the country for several years in a row, he achived his ROM and he won several AOM's different years at the collie nationals.

Anyway.. as far as registered names for these puppies I have been looking at naming them names having something to do with Memphis.... I've been looking up "Memphis Songs" online... and have a few ideas... while typically I like shorter registered names (Amy is Spiritwind Amaretto lol).... I like these song title name ideas I've found so far... some I like are...

Kennel name being "Spiritwind, which would be in front of the name

"Maybe It Was Memphis" - a country song by Pam Tillis
"Walking In Memphis" - I know most recently Lone Star did this song, but I cannot recall who did it originally...
"Back To Memphis"
"Memphis Blues" which might be good for one of the blue boys....

If anyone else has a good idea of names with the word Memphis in them... I'd love to get more suggestions!!!

[Spiritwind]

I'll post more pictures later on this evening, but I just took these 2 pics and had to go ahead and post them now! I thought they were cute....

The blue boys together!!...

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Cute little sleeping babies....

[Husky_mom]

awww... thank you for more pics....:D :D

I was thinking about shades of blue theme... but Memphis theme is great as it has a bit more background story ;)

how about Memphis Legacy....

Memphis Skies....

Memphis own Sapphire...

Steel in Memphis... (as in "still")

Azure me in Memphis

[Spiritwind]

Thanks for the name ideas!! I like those ideas!! Shades Of Blue theme could be cool too... but really like "Memphis Skies" that could be good for one of the blues as well!..

[Riptide]

This is becoming too much for me to handle, these little guys (and gals) are too cute! :D I'm really falling for the two blue boys, they are SO precious. :love:

[Spiritwind]

Thanks! yes, I agree.. I LOVE Blues.. they are my favorite color in Collies!! These are the first blues I've had in a few yrs though!.. like I said in another post, I just love to sit and watch them... I could sit and watch them for hours...

[Moesha]

Kennel name being "Spiritwind, which would be in front of the name

"Maybe It Was Memphis" - a country song by Pam Tillis
"Walking In Memphis" - I know most recently Lone Star did this song, but I cannot recall who did it originally...
"Back To Memphis"
"Memphis Blues" which might be good for one of the blue boys....

If anyone else has a good idea of names with the word Memphis in them... I'd love to get more suggestions!!!

I think Marc Cohn did "Walking In Memphis" first.

Chuck Berry wrote a song called "Memphis, Tennessee". That could be good for a girl that was called Marie.

Here is a link (http://members.tripod.com/~memphisfringe/memphissongs.html) to a webpage with lots of songs with Memphis in the title.