It is hard to believe that it has been 3 weeks since meeting 8 little Border Collie puppies in a plastic washing basket north of a country town called Gympie.
This is my number 2 weekend post on puppy fun and is a follow on from my number 1 post published under The Weekend tag written a few weeks ago. It is a fabulous tag created and organised by the talented @galenkp.
This Sunday morning was the planned pick up for my son's new blue merle puppy, that he has by the way named Onyx. As before I was the passenger going along for the fun up close and personal patting and nursing.
The pick up was organised with the lovely lady breeder at the same place as the first melting moment meeting, at an empty carpark in a sporting/club set-up. Handing over the puppy, the papers and a little bag of food took all of five minutes and once an envelope containing $3,500 was given to the breeder, my son gave the puppy to me in the back seat of the car and we were on our way back to the Sunshine Coast.
The puppy is now 7 weeks and has definitely grown bigger and longer. His eyes look different, there is one blue eye and one green eye. His nose that was pink is now black with a couple of pink spots. For a couple of minutes I placed him in his new sleeping box just to get the feel of it. He was not too fussed not that I blamed him, it has to be a very empty place without his brothers and sisters!
Not surprisingly very cute black, grey and white puppy Onyx preferred the hands on patting and nursing, falling asleep in a quick space of time.
It was a fun Sunday drive home to the Sunshine Coast cuddling one little black, grey and white furry border collie puppy. He is now settling into his new home at the Gold Coast and the next time I see him he is sure to be much bigger.
It made for another beautifully sublime hands on puppy time with the added reminiscing and writing the post kind of Sunday.
Thank you @ace108 and @cOff33a for bringing #beautifulSunday and #sublimeSunday to Hive.
Happy Sunday to everyone, hope your weekend was a good one.
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Puppy breath and two tone nose what a beauty, lovely breed of dog, so lively your son will have his hands full!
Gorgeous photography, Onyx a lovely name for new family member.
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Thank you for your lovely kind words on my photography.Hahaha, you are so right @joanstewart, my son is going to be busy with this little puppy. He has put up chicken wire to keep him fenced in and is ready to do all the training with his lovely partner.
Collie will need more than a garden, hope your son and partner have also bought running shoes... Wish them well with their new addition to the family, absolutely gorgeous!
Good morning, yes Tom runs and once Onyx has his 3 monthly injections he will be doing the daily exercising.
I am wondering how they all slept last night!
Puppy in the bed crawling around looking for warmth 😄 or on the carpet in the lounge, depends on tough love or giving in!
Poor J just had to put up with me squeeing incessantly all the way through this post XD
now I read reasonably quickly but I was in no hurry whatsoever making my way through the photos XD
There is nothing more adorable than little puppies and this little blue merle border collie is so cute. i have noticed that my husband is happy with one look while I keeping looking, hahaha.
They are cute little pups.
So puppies breeding is good business for the breeder. At least, it's one that brings happiness.
Lots of happiness with a big dash of dedication and hard work i think. The breeder is a primary school teacher who said she only breeds her female blue merle border collie once a year. She genuinely likes the puppies.
So she enjoy what she is doing.
The most entertaining part I liked was the breeder patting each puppy on the head saying 'good dog' when they ran over to her calling them. I imagined her doing this to her little primary school aged kids in the classroom.