Meet Cosmo!

We've had Cosmo for 2 and 1/2 weeks now, and it's been exciting, tiring, hilarious and frustrating. 

He is an awesome dog, and showing lots of personality and quirks more and more everyday, which is perfect for us, we're a quirky family! 

Cosmo loves to chew, and chew and chew. He likes to chew on the wall, the carpet, the table, the couch, his toys (yay!) and Ryan and I.

He loves his crate, and sometimes goes in there to hang out with his toys. He Also loves to pee on the carpet after we have come in form outside. That's really nice.

All in all, he is a joy and we are so thankful to have him in our lives! Today is the first day he is going to puppy school! They grow up so fast, soon he'll be asking to learn to drive, and leaving home and going off to college!

We finally met Cosmo!

Last night Ryan and I had the chance to travel to Raymond, Alberta (well a farm just outside). Raymond is about 2.5 hours south of Calgary... Not too far, but far enough.

The Puppies are living on a farm just outside of Raymond with lots of other dogs, and their Mom and Dad of course!

We got to see Bo and her single pup, both are happy and healthy, and super cute!! We then got to meet Bullet's litter. Cosmo was in there! We just had to figure out which one he was!

As we were looking at all the pups, Todd (the breeder) pulled out the 3 light silver males and we went to the kitchen of the farm house to play with them and spend time with them. Ryan was handed a pup, I was handed a pup, and Todd brought a pup in the house too. As we were walking into the house I said to Ryan "Babe, Look! He's licking my neck!" As it turns out... this was Cosmo!!
We had a chance to spend about an hour with the pups (most of which was spent cuddling and sleeping) and Ryan and I both knew at the same time which one Cosmo was!

Finally! We found the newest addition to our Family that we have been waiting for!

Cosmo's First Toy

We bought Cosmo's first toy the other night... We think he'll quite like it!

Update on Cosmo

So he's 3 weeks old, today is his 3 week birthday! 

We haven't met him yet, but that day is fast approaching!

Here's a pic of him, and his brothers, Can you guess which one he is?

Oh the nerves!

So... we had some excitement on Sunday morning. After emailing the breeders to ask of any news, we promptly received a reply that Bo had begun labor at 6 am, and they were waiting for the next pup to arrive. It often takes about a hour or sometimes two between pups, so they were just waiting and watching...

By the time we woke up this morning there was still no news of anymore puppies... was is possible that Bo only had one puppy?? Turns out... YES! She only had one little puppy! But they are both doing well.

So then what about our Cosmo? Where is he?
I guess he figured he'd have a different mama, named Bullet. She was bred to Mater at the same time as Bo, and gave birth on February 27, 2012.

Here he comes!

Here we are, the end of February... anxiously awaiting the news. Bo is due within the next week or so... We heard from our breeders and they tell us she's not too big yet, but grows a lot in the last 10 days of her pregnancy. We are so excited to finally see our Cosmo!

Change of plans....

So... Last Friday we got some sad news. The breeders we had chosen had informed us that they were unable to breed successfully as their stud dog had been injured, and his replacement was too late. This meant, no Cosmo, at least not right away. We were faced with the decision: stay with these breeders and wait another 6 months, or find another breeder in the area with a litter due around the time we were prepared for.

Our choice was to find a new breeder, Ryan and I have been waiting so long already and would really love to have our little guy for the summer... To train him, teach him and show him all the cools things we have here..

Today we went to meet a breeder we had found on the Internet. They are a very lovely couple with lovely kids, and amazing dogs! They let us meet all their dogs, even the ones that lived on the farm next door with the Grandparents. We met Bo and Mater, the first litter that is due, Bo is a beautiful light shade of silver and she is sweet as can be. Mater is a dark charcoal color that gives a nice blue-ish silver pup with his litters with Bo. They have been bred before, and appear to be a cute 'couple', playing and running in the yard together.

We are very excited with this breeder, they seem to be very educated on the breed, and are very friendly, welcoming us back as many times as we like to visit the pups once they are born....which will be around the end of February!