The pups made their first car trip & had their first vet visit today. The girls had a check-up and had their dew claws removed. Momma Zeppe got a look too, and everyone was declared to be well.

Two new lives came into this world in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Zeppe gave birth to two beautiful and vigorous little girls. Zeppe is a fantastic mom and everyone is doing well. Sire is Blast, owned by Phyllis Celmer & bred by Danika Bannasch. Both girls are nicely marked.One has the full complement [...]

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Zeppe settles into her whelping box.

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Zeppe and her daughter Apple. No mistaking the family resemblance here!

We are excitedly preparing for a Spring litter here at Caliber. After a rather tenuous holiday season due to personal circumstances, we weren’t sure if this litter was going to happen. But, things are looking good for 2009 and we are crossing our fingers for a nice healthy litter. After a disappointing miss earlier in [...]

Mother and Daughter on a sunny Fall day.

Pleasant news came today when we received the results of Zeppe’s Optigen testing for CEA. She has tested “Normal”, or Clear. This means she carries two normal genes and will never develop Collie Eye Anomaly (aka Choroidal Hypoplasia). She will also never be able to produce a puppy afflicted with this disease because her offspring [...]

The past three weekends have been a lot of fun. Zeppe came home from training at Gamekeepers Retrievers. I am very happy to have her back. Mitch White came down on October 14th to run the Golden Retriever Club of Greater Saint Louis WC tests with some of his dogs, including Zeppe. He successfully handled [...]

This past week has flown by. The puppies are 8.5 weeks old now. Tuesday I got home a little early as the pups had an appointment with the vet for their final checkup. We finally got a break from the cold weather here in Missouri - it got up into the 40’s! All the puppies [...]

Today the A Litter turned 4 weeks old. Everyone is doing well and they are getting so big! Charlie has really grown this past week and he is the heaviest puppy weighing almost a full pound more than his brother Red. Every day now I try to introduce something new to the puppies as they [...]