This was a not-planned-for but very much loved litter of babies. Question our sanity if you will, but we thought very seriously of keeping the entire lot.

Luckily our neighbors learned of our plans, and one night they did the "mob storming the castle with torches and pitchforks" thing just in time.

At any rate, unlike Sarah's first litter (of 9) we actually named all of the babies in this litter. Originally they were named Pig, "Mr. White Toes", Ozymandes, Hilda, and Nosey. However, as time wore on, "Mr. White Toes" became known as Obidiah DooDah Dale (his registered name, BTW), and we decided to keep him (for reasons which may or may not prove our insanity but which were pretty obvious at the time...).

In particular you will see several pictures of Obi's (OK, Obidiah's) white toes below — but you'll have to look fast because although he still has two white toenails, most of the white fur is on the bottom of his hand... er, ah, paw, and if he has not has a bath very recently, it is hard to tell that the fur is white.

The bottom set of pictures (the last 4) are taken the day the babies were six weeks old — this is their trip to the vet for their 6-weeks' checkup.

(There are also more puppy pictures in our 2002 Airedale Picnic page a couple of levels above this page on the main index.)

Enjoy...