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Here's a photo from our most recent Pupapalooza...   a big social event for Cocker lovers from all over California.

This was from the beach bonfire at our May 2008 pupapalooza, at Port San Luis in San Luis Obispo county.  This was only a fraction of the people who had been with us at the beach earlier in the day for the main event.  Quite a few people drove home before the bonfire so they could be in their own beds that night rather than having to stay over in a hotel.

We usually time our Pupapalooza events to coincide with one of our litters of puppies...  but this year, since we're only going to have one litter all year long, we decided we just couldn't wait to get all of our friends together again...  so we had a Pupapalooza in spite of the fact we had no new puppies.  No problem, of course, because a lot of the puppies from our three 2007 litters were able to attend.

Click here for more pictures of our May 2008 Pupapalooza, and see this section of our Cocker forum for information about Pupapaloozas in other parts of the world!
 

We had a big setback to our breeding program in February of 2008.

In anticipation of breeding Reese again this year, we had her eyes examined once again by our local Veterinary Ophthalmologist.  This is a normal thing that good breeders do...  an annual eye exam to look for any genetic eye problems that might be passed along to puppies.  Unlike hip exams, which you only have to do once during the lifetime of a dog, eye exams need to be done every year...  because things can change.  Sometimes everything looks fine for the first few years, and then at a later age an eye problem starts to show up.  That's exactly what happened to Reese.

During her eye exam in February of 2008, the Veterinary Ophthalmologist (the same one that gave her the green light for breeding a year earlier) noticed cataracts in both of Reese's eyes.  These were new since the last exam...  and because cataracts are something that could be passed along to future generations, this was the end of Reese's breeding career.

You may be wondering whether the pups in Reese's 2007 litter have developed any eye problems.  Not yet, although it's still a little early for them to show up.  The owners of all five of Reese's puppies have been notified, and they'll be having regular eye examinations for their dogs over the coming years.  Of course, Reese's genes were only half of the equation.  The father of those puppies has not had any eye problems...  so those pups could easily end up being OK.  Only time will tell.  In any case, Reese has now been spayed and won't be making any more puppies.
 

Some good news about our web site and Cocker forum...

We moved the site to a new server in February of 2008.  The forum just had gotten so popular and so active that we totally outgrew our old web host and server.  They had this limitation that only 20 actions could happen at any one time for each account on their server.  As we often had more than 20 people on our forum at any given time, each trying to do things all at the same time, we often ran up against that 20 item-at-a-time limit.  It was a big deal to move all the files associated with our web site and forum (there were over 43,000 pictures people had posted to the forum!) but between me and the technical genius who is our son, Jeff, we were able to get it done.  We're looking forward to smooth sailing for our forum in 2008, no matter how popular it gets!

In November, we got to puppy-sit one of Joanna & Dodger's puppies for a few days.  The older he gets, the more he reminds me of Dodger...  his dad.  We puppy-sat while Dusty's owners were taking care of their granddaughter while she had heart surgery.  I gave Dusty (formerly known as Juno) a bath and a hair cut, and then snapped this picture of him:

He's three months old in that picture.  Here's one of him at six weeks old, to help you remember which one of the pups he is, and also to show you the little girl that needed heart surgery.

Sydney with Dusty at six weeks old

In October, we got to puppy-sit one of Morgan's puppies for a few days.  Laurie Lormon wanted to spend the weekend with some friends in Solvang, but didn't want to have her pup, Katie, with her for the weekend.  So, we offered to puppy-sit for her.

I snapped this photo of Katie (formerly known as Mercedes and Jessie) a few hours before she headed back home with Laurie.  She is five months old in this picture.  She was one of the nine puppies in Morgan & Merlin's litter earlier this year.  Here's a picture to refresh your memory.  Katie is the pup on the left:

Katie (left), Murphy (center), and Madelena (right) at three weeks old

Joanna's puppies have gone to their new homes, and now our house is awful quiet!  Here's a photo of the pups with their new owners, just minutes before heading down the road to their new homes.

After having three litters of puppies in 2007, we have to admit that we're ready for a little break!  It's almost impossible for us to get out of town for even one night when we have puppies, so now we have our big chance for doing anything that would take us away for a day or two.  It looks like we'll have about six months to enjoy the freedom of no puppies (and no human children at home anymore) before our next litter...  which is expected in April of 2008.  We've got no big vacation planned for our "off season"...  just a few little trips here and there to visit family and friends.

In August, we had the pleasure of puppy-sitting a couple of pups we hadn't seen in a while.  On the right, it's Captain Jack Spaniel, from Reese's litter earlier this year, and on the left it's Jack's best pal, Bailey.  (She's a Schnauzer, in case you hadn't figured it out.)  Jack & Bailey's owners, Julia and John, needed someone to take care of their dogs for a few days while they got married in late August...  and we were happy to volunteer.  It's always fun to see one of our pups again...  and we were surprised at how much we liked his Schnauzer pal, Bailey, too!

Here's a great shot that is sure to make it on to our 2008 Cocker Spaniel photo calendar!  It's a family portrait of Joanna, Dodger, and their pups...  taken when the pups were just one week old.  This is the 15th litter in the history of our breeding program.  After so many litters, it sometimes seems like I'm just getting the same old photos with different pups in each litter.  How many different ways are there to take a photo of a Cocker Spaniel?  But every now and then I get a new idea...  like getting both parents to pose together while the puppies nurse.  I was very happy when I saw how the shot turned out!

By the way, that 2008 Cocker Spaniel photo calendar isn't available yet, so don't write and ask about how to get one!  But I'll be working on it over the next few weeks, and towards the end of October you should see information posted right here about how to order a copy.  This will be the third year that we've put one together!

We had a great time over Pupapalooza weekend at the end of June!  In case you don't know, Pupapalooza is our big social event where Cocker lovers come from hundreds of miles away to spend the weekend celebrating our favorite breed.  We always time these events so that they coincide with one of our litters heading off to their new homes.  It becomes a big going-away party for the pups, and a great chance for all of our friends to see the entire litter together before they all head out in different directions.  Also, many of the pups from our previous litters come back for Pupapalooza...  so it's a great opportunity for everyone to see how they turned out as they grew up.

In the picture above, you can get a look at the scene on Saturday morning out on our front lawn.  This was early, when just a few of our most eager guests had arrived.  Things got quite a bit more crowded later, with more people and more Cockers!  The weather was fantastic, and everyone had a great time visiting with our puppies and with all the other Cockers.  To see a lot more pictures that people took over Pupapalooza weekend, see this section of our forum.

Morgan's puppies headed to their new homes at the end of Pupapalooza weekend in June.  They were born on May 5th, and it was one of our largest litters ever...  with nine puppies!

All nine pups in the wagon, at four weeks old
click here for a 1280x960 pixel version of this photo, suitable for use as your computer desktop wallpaper

I happen to think that this was our highest quality litter of puppies, so far.  It was the 14th litter of puppies in the history of our breeding program, and this time I think we really got it right!  If you'd like to see more pictures of these puppies, please click here.

In June, we got to Puppy-sit one of the pups from Morgan & Dodger's February 2007 litter.  Addison's owners got to spend a week in Hawaii, but we got to spend the week with Addison.  I think it was a good deal all around!  It's fun to see one of our puppies at three and a half months old...  as we don't usually see them at that age.  Usually after they leave our house at two months old, it's at least a few months before we see them again.

Compare these pictures to photos of Addison when we last saw her

Addison with Hailey, one of the neighbor kids

Here's a new photo of Pipa in action!

The tire jump, just like what they use in agility competitions, was a really cool gift given to us during Pupapalooza weekend by Andrea & Audie Greaves.   I'd  say that has to rank right up there with some of the best gifts we've ever received...  thanks!

As for Pipa...  she's doing VERY well.  When she came to us in January, she didn't know what to do with a tennis ball and was really starving for attention.  Now she's the Queen of tennis ball retrieval, and is a very happy and well-adjusted member of our family and pack.  She loves toys, and loves to play.  We also found out that she's very tolerant of the kind of "monkey business" that a litter of puppies is full of. 

Pipa became something of a surrogate mother to Reese's pups after the pups got their teeth and Reese became tired of getting nipped at all the time.  Pipa had a tremendous amount of patience with the pups, and we ended up putting Pipa in charge of teaching them everything they needed to know about getting along with other dogs.  She spent time with them almost every day for about a month, up until they went to their new homes.  I think it's one of the reasons that the new owners have good things to say about how well the pups are getting along in their new homes.

Reese and Dodger's puppies headed off to their new homes at the end of April.  Here's a photo of all five of the pups with their new owners, taken during Pupapalooza weekend.

For more pictures of Reese & Dodger's puppies, click here
To find out how they're doing at their new homes, click here

This was Reese's first litter, and also the first by our boy, Dodger.  His future as our stud dog looks pretty bright!  Even though Reese's coat is chocolate & white, and Dodger's coat is red & white, we were not at all surprised that there weren't any red & white or chocolate & white puppies in this litter.  Getting an entire litter of black & white puppies was exactly what was predicted by our coat color inheritance chart.

Even with Reese's puppies gone, we're not expecting a whole lot of peace and quiet around our house...  Morgan's puppies are due about a week later!

I finally completed a project that I've been talking about for a long time...  a DVD all about how to groom a Cocker Spaniel.  People have been asking me for grooming advice for years, and I've always said that someday I would have to make a video on the subject.  Someday is finally here!  It took me almost two months to tape all the segments and to edit them together in to a professional-looking program.  In the end, I think the results were entertaining and educational! 

The DVD is geared to regular ol' pet owners looking for tips on how to trim their Cockers using electric clippers.  In addition, there's a segment on grooming show dogs by my pal, Julie Hydro, a former professional dog groomer.  While I doubt any of the people who watch my DVD will ever groom a show dog, I think there are some good tips you can pick up from watching a show groomer.

Click here for more information about my new grooming DVD, including how to get a copy of your own.
 

In January, we added a new member to the family!  Meet "Pipa", an 8-month old female black & white parti...

She's VERY playful, and is always looking for fun.  She loves any squeaky toy, and her best friend is our boy, Dodger.  See more pictures of Pipa on her new page, and read what everyone's saying about her on our forum.  The amazing part of Pipa's story is her father...  he's the #1 parti colored Cocker show dog in the USA.  In other words, he's won more points at dog shows than any other parti colored Cocker in the country.  Take a look at the national standings and you'll see he's the top dog (among the partis) by far!

On January 6th and 7th, we had the pleasure of attending the West Coast Cocker Spaniel Club's agility trials in Industry Hills, California.  It was great to see Cockers having fun in agility, and I had a ball snapping pictures of all the dogs in action!

Check out my new agility page to see a lot more pictures I took that weekend.  The photo opportunities were fabulous!  Thanks to our pal, Sharon Stevens, for inviting us... and especially for putting us up in nice hotel on her bill!  Some people like camping, others like Recreational Vehicles...  Kellyn and I like hotels!

In December, I had the pleasure of visiting with Madison...  one of our puppies from Joanna's July 2006 litter.  At five months old, she isn't fully grown up yet...  but she's getting there.  And isn't she just a doll?!?

Just for comparison, here's a photo of Madison when she was just 8 weeks old:

Madison's owners, the Gyulai family, invited me to stop by their house for breakfast since I was going to be in the area.  We had a fun visit, and it was great to see Madison again...  it had been 3 months since she had left our house and gone to be with her new family.

Happy Birthday, Dodger!
He turned two years old on November 1st, 2006

Two years old is something special in the world of dog breeding, because it's the age at which a dog is considered old enough to breed.  What good breeders do is wait for a dog to turn two years old, and then have hip and eye tests performed to make sure that the dog does not carry any genetic hip or eye defects.  Once Dodger turned two, we had hip x-rays done...  and sent them in to the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals.  Their panel of experts evaluated the x-rays, and rated Dodger's hips as "excellent"...  the highest possible rating.

We also had Dodger checked by a Veterinary Ophthalmologist...  who found no problems at all with Dodger's eyes.  So, Dodger now has the green light for breeding with our girl, Reese, around Christmas time.  This means we should have puppies towards the end of February, old enough for new homes in late April.  It also means you can look forward to one of our famous Pupapalooza weekends in April!

Based on what we know about Cocker coat color genetics, we expect all the puppies in Reese & Dodger's litter to be black & white partis.  But don't feel bad if red & white partis are your favorite...  we think that later in 2007 we'll have a litter featuring only red & white puppies!  The red & white litter will be from Dodger and Joanna.  She went in to heat in mid-December, and we're skipping this heat cycle, so we think this means that Joanna and Dodger will have a hot date in June of 2007, bringing puppies in August.  Before that, though, we anticipate having a litter from Morgan and Vicki Wallace's boy, Merlin...  making 2007 the first year we've ever had three litters of puppies.  If everything works out according to plan, that is!

So, as we head in to 2007, it sure does look like our breeding program is right where we want it to be...  with all four of our dogs of breeding age, and all four having passed hip and eye exams.  This ought to be a fun year at our house!

We had a special visitor recently, and she did the best darned Reese impersonation ever!

That's NOT Reese in the photo above!  It's Malia, from our most recent litter.
To show you how similar Reese and Malia look, we put them together for a few photos:

Reese on the left, Malia on the right

We've added a new page to our web site.  (I think the site is now at 91 pages, and still growing!) 

The new page features tips on how to be a responsible dog breeder...  with specific tips about breeding American Cocker Spaniels in a responsible manner.  Basically, it's all the things we've learned along the way...  from how to make Cocker puppies with proper markings, to information about the health testing that should be done to a dog before breeding, and even how to know when a dog shouldn't be bred again. 

Click here to read our new page about breeding dogs responsibly.
 

Things got awful quiet around our house after Joanna's puppies went to their new homes.  The summer of '06 was really fun for us, thanks to those four pups.  Click here to see about 50 great pictures I took of this litter!

Joanna's puppies were born on July 16th.  It was her first litter.  We're so pleased with the quality of the puppies, it definitely will not be her last litter!

Joanna went in to heat in the first week of May, and we bred her with a beautiful stud dog that belongs to a new friend of ours...  Vicki Wallace, a show breeder out in Madera, California.  The stud's name is Merlin, and that's his picture over on the right.  He was bred by Shadyhill kennels, one of the top Cocker breeders in the world.  Click here to check out his pedigree (full of champion show dogs) and to read more about him.

Because Joanna's father is a black & white tri, her mother is a chocolate & white parti, and she is a red and white parti...  Joanna is our only dog capable of making puppies in all three of the major parti colors:  chocolate & white, red & white, black & white, or sable & white.  However, in her first litter she only gave us two of the three.  We'll have to try again next year and see if she'll do all three in one litter!

Joanna did have a little bit of difficulty giving birth to these pups.  The first one was breech in the birth canal, and got stuck.  After 45 minutes of hard labor, she just couldn't push him out.  We ended up going to the emergency vet, who was able to assist Joanna and get that first pup out successfully.  We drove back home and delivered the other three ourselves.

Joanna had her eyes checked by our local Veterinary Ophthalmologist earlier in the year, who found no hereditary defects that might be passed on to future generations.  This news, on top of Joanna's "good" rating from the Orthopedic Foundation For Animals, tells us that Joanna has a bright future in our breeding program.

You'll find more information about Joanna's puppies on our forum.
 

After four litters of puppies...  we spayed Abby, retired her from our breeding program, and sent her off to a new home with our friend, Donna Thompson.

We spent a lot of quality time with Abby during our last few months together...  doing all the things she likes, such as swimming at the beach and playing tennis ball.

If you're thinking we "got rid of Abby" just because she can no longer make puppies for us...  you don't know us very well, and you sure don't know our friend, Donna!  First off, we didn't "get rid" of a dog that's too old to breed anymore...  we placed the best dog we've ever had in the very good hands of a trusted friend.  Abby's going to love it at Donna's house...  being the only dog there, and getting Donna's complete attention.  Not to mention swimming in the fresh water lakes of the Sierra foothills, rather than the salt water of the Pacific Ocean!

It all comes down to the local animal regulations in the city we live in...  which don't allow anyone, even with a full breeder's license from the county, to keep more than a total of five dogs on their property.  Keeping in mind that we neutered our boy, Wally, when he didn't pass hip testing...  neutered our boy, Scooter, when we discovered a genetic heart defect...  spayed our girl, Lady, when she failed a CERF exam...  you can see how we'd quickly be unable to continue breeding Cockers if we held on to every dog that we couldn't use in our breeding program.  So, the only practical alternative is to find great homes for any dogs that can't be bred.

Just before starting her new life with Donna, we thought it would be a good time for a new photo of Abby, and the two great kids she leaves behind.

Abby

Abby's daughter, Morgan...  mother of eight puppies, so far!

Abby's son, Dodger...  our future stud dog

Here's a cool picture that was posted on our forum recently.  It's Rocky and Dusty, from our 2002 litter of chocolate partis.  Don't they look great?!?

Rocky & Dusty live with Paul & Susan Ramaker down in Redondo Beach.  There was a discussion on the forum recently about how some of our chocolate parti pups are doing these days, and Susan was kind enough to post this updated picture.  Thanks, Susan!  It's good to see the boys again!

If you've visited our web site over the past several years, you've probably heard about Pupapalooza...  where many of our online friends get together in person for an afternoon of Cocker play time off-leash.  We've had four of these events here in San Luis Obispo county over the last three years.  On June 3rd, things went to a whole new level with our first Pupapalooza outside of California.  About 25 people who had met through our forum gathered near Ann Arbor, Michigan, with about 20 Cockers for an afternoon of fun at an off-leash dog park.

(Click on the photo to see a larger, higher resolution version)

Click here to see more photos and read what folks had to say about the Michigan Pupapalooza.  The next step is to take Pupapalooza international!  Later this month, some of our forum members from the United Kingdom will be getting together in London for the first ever UK Pupapalooza!  This September, we'll be having the biggest of all the Pupapaloozas...  right here in California at the beach.  Click here for all the details.

For Kellyn's birthday (on May 28th) we spent the day with our best friends, Robin & Gene.  They're the ones that we placed our boy, Wally, with after discovering he had a genetic hip condition that precluded him from use in our breeding program.  Robin asked that we bring our girl, Reese, along for the party.  Here are a few pictures:

Reese and Robin share a tender moment

Gene and Wally

Wally always seems to recognize us, and you can see the happiness in his body language

Their chocolate boy, Rufus, did a funny thing while we were sitting in the kitchen chatting.
He climbed up on the couch in the "media room" and popped his head over the partition to the kitchen so that he could get closer to Kellyn!
 

If you've been following our web site for very long, I'm sure you know that photography is a special love of mine.  There's lots of great subjects to shoot photos of at our house, and I have all sorts of fun doing it!  When I take a great photo, it's a source of real joy for me.  Over the years, both my photography skills and my photography equipment have been steadily improving.  It seems like here in 2006, I find myself at a much higher level than I've ever been.  You have no idea how much I'm enjoying this! 

It's my pleasure to share with you a photo I took in our back yard in early March.  If this isn't the best photo I've ever taken, it's certainly right up there in the top few.

That's our boy, Dodger, jumping over an obstacle in our back yard.  Kellyn and our friend, Sharon Stevens, were throwing tennis balls towards the camera to get Dodger to run towards me.  He didn't just clear the obstacle by an inch or two...  he went way airborne!  Can you see from his face how much fun he was having?!?  If you like this photo, I've got larger versions of it that you can use as your Windows desktop background image.

This is just one of many great photos I've been able to get with a wonderful camera given to me by my friends Janet and Butch.  They had a Canon 10D laying around that they weren't using...  so they gave it to me last year, because they knew I would be able to put it to good use.  They were absolutely right!  They recently sent some other photo gear down to me, which I was able to sell on eBay and use the money to buy several nice lenses for the camera...  including the gigantic lens you see in the picture below.

In case you can't tell from the photo...   I really love this camera and this lens!  It's my first Canon "L" series lens...  which is their best line of lenses.  The photo of Dodger in mid-air was shot with that lens, as was this amazing photo of a sunset at Pismo Beach...

See more of the best photos I've ever taken by checking out the Jim Zim photo gallery

Abby give Charlie Boy a kiss...  while Peri tries to nurse and Charlee Girl looks at the camera

Abby's final litter of puppies arrived on January 21st, but it was a bittersweet day as only three of the six puppies survived.  The first puppy had fluid in her airways and we were unable to revive her, three healthy puppies arrived after that, and the final two were stillborn.  We've got an entire section of our forum devoted to the puppies.  Click here to read it.  It's got lots of great pictures of the puppies, as well as pictures that Cocker lovers from all over the world have grabbed from on our two live webcams.  Don't miss it!  Personally, I think reading comments in the forum about the puppies is half the fun of having the forum!

You may have read news stories about people that see the face of the Virgin Mary in a shadow somewhere...  and thousands of the faithful tie up traffic by making a pilgrimage to see it.  Well, we've warned the neighbors to expect large crowds when word of this latest miracle gets out!  Look what came out of our toaster recently:

Many have written to let us know that similar items have sold on eBay for huge sums of money...  but we have no plans to try to get rich off of our little miracle.  Is that because we would never exploit a gift such as this...  or because the whole darned thing is just a photo hoax?  You decide.

In addition to news about our Cocker Spaniels, did you know we have another page with news about the human members of our family?  Click here to see it!

I'd like to recommend a TV show that I think would be helpful for all dog owners to watch.  It's called "The Dog Whisperer" and it runs on The National Geographic channel several times each weekday.

The show features a dog trainer by the name of Cesar Millan, and he's got a great way with animals.  He goes to the homes of people with misbehaving dogs, and helps them to overcome their dog's problem.  There's a lot we can all learn from this guy!

They ran a marathon of back-to-back episodes on the President's Day holiday, and I was so impressed.  A common theme I noticed was the need to provide daily exercise for your dog in order to release some of the dog's energy and aggression.  He's also very good at showing people how to take control of their dog, rather than letting their dogs control them.  Do yourself a big favor and check this show out!

Mrs. Zim is once again taking orders for personalized dog blankets.  She had to stop taking orders when our new litter of puppies arrived...  things were busy for a while there!  But things are getting back to normal, and she's got time to work on doggie blankets once again.

In case you don't know what we're talking about...  Kellyn (also known as Mrs. Zim) has a very cool hobby off making all sorts of creative projects on her embroidery machine.

After we displayed a picture of Wally sitting on a personalized blanket that Kellyn had made for him, we started getting emails from people wondering if she could make one for their dog.  The idea caught on, and now she's making them in your choice of many different colors.

Head on over to our new web page featuring products we recommend for Cocker Spaniels...  and you'll see the details on this and several other items that we think no Cocker house should be without!

In addition to the personalized dog blanket, you'll find good deals on flea treatments, chew toys, and products for grooming your Cocker.  We think you'll find quite a few items that will come in handy.

Planning on doing some shopping online?

All purchases through the Amazon.com link on the left will generate a small commission for our family.  It's a simple way you can thank us for taking the time to keep this web site updated, and it helps us to fund little things like the equipment that brought you the PuppyCam.  We're hoping to be able to do some upgrades to provide better quality live pictures for our Spring litter.

We thank you very much, and hope your new year will be filled with many Cocker kisses!

There's a wonderful old book about Cocker Spaniels that sits on a shelf here at our house...  it's called "The Book Of The Cocker Spaniel" and it was written by Joan Brearley back in 1982.

It's full of beautiful pictures of American Cocker Spaniels, as well as stories about the history of the breed and basic information that Cocker owners need to know.

Unfortunately, the book is long out-of-print...  so it's tricky to find a copy.  (I recently bought four copies dirt cheap from a book liquidator so I can give a nice present to some of my Cocker-loving friends this Christmas!)

But the reason I mention it is not so much to encourage you to find a copy of the book...  but to ask you to compare that beautiful picture on the cover to these pictures that I shot of Joanna and Wally over the weekend:

And I got a pretty nice shot of Morgan in front of that Bougainvillea bush, too...

I've added a new page to the web site...  filled with lots of information about the process of whelping (delivering) a litter of puppies.  This should be extremely useful to anyone with a pregnant dog on their hands...  and (hopefully) entertaining to anyone else who is just curious about how puppies are born.

There's a very graphic picture of a puppy halfway out the birth canal and still in a birth sac...  so don't view the page if you're easily grossed out!  The best part of the page is actual video of a puppy being born.  Click here to see the whelping page.

Another new page I added to the site recently deals with older Cockers who are in need of new homes.  The black and white parti we profiled recently has found a new home, but there are lots of other Cockers available for adoption.  Click here to see the rescue page.

There is a LOT more to this web site than just this page!
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