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@jewhite95 I named my last litter after Go-Lion characters. Almost no one noticed...

More thoughts: it allows me to feel a lot more connected with the pups, who may not have names until week 6 when I am able to start picking out who is going where. If I let owners name pups sooner, they may get attached to a pup they don't ultimately receive... there's no opportunity to...

(That might be a little petty of me, but... eh.)

@mumin9952 Their names become their registered names. I pick out the registered names because I have to register them with NIPPO - the owners cannot do that, or I would leave it up to them. That and... a lot of people just pick out a name they think "sounds cool" or has characters they think...

@mmx I don't think it's out of line. I don't really understand why responsible breeders want to let cost lie in shadows... it's always been kind of bizarre to me, especially when less responsible breeders so happily tell their audience. It puts us at a disadvantage and sometimes, it cuts us out...

@akilah Oh yeah! My dogs all get significantly darker in the summertime, when there's less of an undercoat to distribute their black guard coat hairs against.

@akilah Yep! It can be pretty difficult to tell for sure how they're going to turn out. The only reason I'm predicting he'll turn out more like the second agouti vs the first is because of what the dam's brother has produced when bred to another agouti-- and this pairing, genetically, should be...

@needheaven This is only my second litter and my first arrived well before we thought it would. Maybe a more experienced breeder on the sub can jump in on the first question! As far as the sire, he's sesame, but I think the pup out of this litter will end up darker than him, as an adult. I'm...

@drwoods Go ahead!

@r025 Just replying again because I finally got the Puppy Culture-related book "When Pigs Fly" and some insight on what they actually go into in the DVDs and-- yikes! I'm sure these are good for people who don't really know much about behavior and psychological development, but they seemed...

@r025 I'm planning on writing that down, actually, on a website I'm making to chronicle the litter and my practices (I'm using the litter for independent study credits.) Right now, in week 1, I focus simply on handling - manipulating puppies from head to toe, regularly. Once they start walking...

@akilah I think I would be eaten alive with 12 Kishu puppies! Though I know breeder friends with Shikoku who have had upwards of 9, 10, and 12. So much dog in such small packages.

@akilah Wow! I would have freaked out if I knew there was a 12 in there, but I'm always thinking in worst case scenarios. It's a curse. Fionna, the dam, has a sire from a litter of 13, so I was really worried that she had inherited some ability to throw massive litters. I was so happy when the...

@r025 Birth was a little nerve-wracking because she (Fionna) was 2 days late according to initial progesterone testing. If she didn't go into labor on that day, I was going to bring her in (even though the repro vet didn't seem very worried.) There was a LONG pause between pup 4 and 5 that made...

I had my second Kishu Ken litter yesterday on April 3rd, 2017. KIshu Ken are a rare breed, still uncommon in their country of origin (Japan.) This is only the 6th litter registered with the Japanese preservation society that has been born outside of Japan since the breed's standardization in...