BHRR’S Murray
5.5 weeks of age
October 22nd 2017
He was 14.08 pounds on October 24th, 2017
Month: October 2017
Kinsley & BHRR’s Carlsberg at LAH October 24th!
He weighed 12.1 pounds!
Another photo!
BHRR’s Capone!
ADOPTED!
October 22nd, 2017
This is approved adoption #401 for BHRR! 
I am so sorry that I did not get this posted last night as I am usually so prompt and immediate with my postings!
With having to get Kinsley, my home-visit partner home and then to feed kids plus Sean as he is sporting his own broken arm, and I needed to get back to The Bakers Dozen for their next feeding etc., I truly did not have the amount of time last night that this great post is incredibly deserving to have in making!
Thank you to this lovely home for going through our detailed adoption process and opening up their beautiful home to us last night.
It was such an easy and wonderful experience for us and we are so thrilled that we were correct in choosing that right match dog meant for their home. They loved BHRR’s Rubble and BHRR’s Flynn which are amazing Danes themselves yet I knew that BHRR’s Capone was the much better fit for their home and they agreed as did BHRR’s Capone.
We shall never approve an adoption on one of our dogs that we know is not meant for a home and we will never force a home to take on a dog that while we know is that right match personality fit, yet the home may not see the same. AND that is ok! It is about building up strong relationships throughout the detailed adoption process and at the end of it, hopefully having a great BHRR dog adopted to a great home.
Our adoption success rates are second to none for the very reason that we work hard to only adopt per right match personality fit each and every time. BHRR was also founded on the mission statement that we are here to help the next one in need of us, not to adopt as our focus. If we have a dog that turns out to be adoptable, wonderful yet that is not what our programs are about. They are always about helping the next in need of us. We also have our Haven and Perma-Foster programs where many of the dogs that come our way, especially as a special needs focused Dane/Giant Breed Rescue reside and live quality filled amazing lives!
BHRR’s Capone, you came to us seriously obese and out of shape, barely able to walk 2 minutes and by the time you were adopted you were fit, fab and happy plus healthy!
You are so well balanced plus solid and while still a huge Dane at 165 pounds, you are just a lap loving mush boy at the end of the day!
We are positively delighted to bear witness to the beginning of what shall be a most magnificent future for you and while I shall miss you dearly – so much to miss! – you have not needed me for some time and to see a home open up their own hearts plus home to a stunning big black beauty makes me like them all that much more!
They did not care about your colour or your ‘butt high’ conformation, they only saw and cared about you and it was love at first sight! You walked into their home already at ease and yes, I know you have missed us since we left – your new home has told us this also – yet you shall be more than ok! I promise you that! 
Thank you again to Christine for offering to emerge temp foster him until we had a spot in our own home so we could save him! I am truly forever indebted….
BHRR’s Capone, I love you in a million plus ways and thank you so much for touching my family and carving your own special place in my heart!
BHRR’S Carlsberg
5.5 weeks of age
October 22nd 2017
Two more pictures of BHRR’s Fletcher from October 22nd’s professional photo shoot – their second one!
Another photo of this gorgeous beauty from October 22nd!
The Bakers Dozen
October 22nd., 2017
*5.5 weeks of age
Their second professional photo shoot!
I captured this candid with my iPhone! A bit blurry I know. 
Adore them with all that I am…..what a journey we have all taken together…..I am so beyond proud of them! So beyond proud…not a day goes by that I do not think of their lost to FPS Siblings and they will forever be known as the Miraculous Bakers Dozen!
It was a glorious fall AM with amazing BHRR Approved Volunteers, Friends, Family and so much fun!
All have names other than the first one born – the wee black beauty who is not far off from some of her siblings now and the last born – the Brindle Boy.
We hope that the winners of their Name Game Bid Auction have names for them soon! 
Capone
Adopted to his forever loving home (his story)
AND we are on our way!
Road trip to Kingston to do the home-visit for BHRR’s Capone’s possible approved adoption.
We will post an update as we can!
BHRR’s Daffodil!
Mismarked Merle Mantle, Female, -5.5 years of age Great Dane
Available For Adoption
This stunning girl has been ready for adoption for a bit of time yet with The Bakers Dozen we held off posting as when we posted regarding BHRR’s Daffodil, we wanted all of the attention to be on her!
She is hearing and visually impaired yet 100% normal to her and to us!
She is stunning and after losing significant weight, having her vaccines updated, doing bloodwork, putting her on flea/tick/heartworm preventative, being spayed and her mammary mass addressed, developed muscle tone plus mass etc., she is finally ready to make her own wonderful announcement!
She is so affectionate, quiet, calm and as sweet as they come!
So low maintenance, precious, house-broken, crate trained, great with dogs and people and travels wonderfully in a car.
Easy to wash and do nails and such a solid well balanced beauty.
She is loyal, just beyond lovely this gal is!
She can go to a home that works full-time, part-time, from home, is semi-retired or retired. Another versatile BHRR dog.
We will not consider homes with children under the age of 8. This girl was bred so much in her life that now, she deserves to have so much in attention, love, time focused very much on her.
She can go to a home with another right matched personality fit dog yet can also be an only dog residing in the home. She does deeply enjoy the company of other dogs and as long as she has a strong social doggie network, that is what is most important.
This girl has been a true delight to have with us!
She is a real treat of a dog and one very lucky home that is her right matched forever loving home is going to get the best of dogs!
I am so happy for you BHRR’s Daffodil! You may not have had an easy & loving past yet there are many more chapters yet to be written in your life and we will continue to ensure that they are the best ever!!
Thank you Liz Bradley once again for your talent and time to get such gorgeous photo’s!
Please consider sharing her post so that her right matched forever loving home may find her!
*NOTICE*:
BHRR shall be closed for the intake of adoption applications and shall not approve any adoptions from Monday October 23rd to Wednesday November 1st inclusive.
We do not adopt out around the Halloween season and many other Rescues, shelters, pounds etc. have also begun to follow a similar protocol.
We do not believe it is in the best interest of the animals in our program, especially for dark coloured dogs.
During this time, BHRR is available 24/7 as always for requests for assistance of animals in need and will network these requests to r/q organisations for we remain closed for intake.
This photo is of BHRR’s Navy.
This BBBBB had his second surgery today at LAH to see if we can get that one eye fixed once and for all!
Dr. Liston called me to say that his several further attempts today to ‘tuck’ that third eyelid of BHRR’s Ryder’s back down did not work….it just kept rolling right back up.
So, Dr. Liston did some research and wanted to try cauterising several area’s to then ‘tighten’ things up. If that failed, he would have no choice but to remove the third eyelid as was discussed previously.
Dr. Liston says there is also a malformation of some sort that makes his third eyelid almost too big for his eye.
Dr. Liston feels that the cauterising should work and now we are on our way home after this surgery. His eye is incredibly swollen which Dr. Liston told me it would be and would remain that way for a good 5 days or so.
We have more eye drops – maxitrol to use three times a day for a week and we will monitor.
He is so handsome regardless of his swollen running eye and still dopey from the anesthetic!
We will post updates as we can.
We are at Pet Valu Stittsville to 4 pm today!
The Bakers Dozen (no touching allowed) are on hand to thank so many for helping them to date!
This is the handsome Blue Boy – Puppy #10! They are now 4.5 weeks of age!
Thank you to so many for standing by our and their side assisting with their needs!
We are collecting Pee Pads, Giant Breed Puppy toys, Empties & Canadian Tire $!
Thank you to Bre & her fabu staff for inviting us to their lovely location today! Thank you to all of the BHRR Volunteers for your caring hands!!
Thank you to all of our amazing Visitors so far today for coming. You touch my heart deeply!
Thank you Aaron Maracle for this great pic!
Another picture of this awesome and uber handsome Big Blue Baby Boy!
Here is a totally sweet photo Melissa took with her talent of Margaret and this BBBBB at this professional photo shoot!
Another photo of this gorgeous beauty. This one in Sean’s arms when we were at LAH.
Bob Levesque – here is a great photo of the two of you at their Professional Photo Shoot on the 10th!
I think Miss Blue Fawn understands it was a total accident too….
This is in our drive-way before we headed to the Vet and I put her safely in her carrier to travel.
Sean is one of the kindest people ever.
Puppy #4 – Born Fourth – September 13th, 2017 @ 12:15 AM
Blue Fawn Male – Definitely has brindling coming in!
Weight: 515 g(1.13 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week of age: 1 pound, 5 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks of age: 2 pounds, 9 oz
This boy is so chill! Laid back, nothing seems to faze him much, takes life in stride, patient, he watches quielty as some of the more ‘attention seeking’ puppies work to get the attention and in his eyes you know that he wants a piece of the action, yet remains content to wait his turn….
What is MOST important is that he gets his turn and then some. Many may overlook this handsome man for he does not live in the lime-light yet to me, he speaks volumes if you just ‘listen’ to his non verbal communication
Puppy #12 – Twelveth Born – September 13th, 2017 @ 4:04 AM
Blue Fawn Male
Weight: 450 g(0.99 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week: 1 pound, 4 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks: 2 pounds, 13 oz
This boy loves his food! OH my, does he ever! LOL
He is so worried about missing any meal and is quite vocal to tell me that he is there….
Once he has had the first round, he settles down and is content to lay by my chair and wait his turn.
He can be a bit of a rough player yet that is because he just does not know his own strength. He is learning about being gentle…he snuggles so well with Blue and Tan collar Boyz…they are his ‘buds’. He likes to spoon with them!
Cuddly, kind, loving and so handsome he is!
A big mushball when it comes down to it!
Puppy #13 – Thirteenth Born – September 13th, 2017 @ 9:29 AM
Brindle Boy
Weight: 475 g(1.04 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week: 1 pound, 9 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks: 3 pounds, 3 oz
This boy is hilarious! On the move! LOVES to eat and it is like he does not have a ‘full’ button and you have to monitor him closely.
He can be busy yet when it is time to settle down, he is a dream.
He has some anxiety issues that we have been working through and he is responding so well. New things have made him a bit nervous yet he is beginning to take more things in instant stride now. We are getting the right people to assist in holding and loving on hiim at the Vets/Photo Shoots to enable me to help him reach his full potential and he is doing great!
When he makes up his mind that he wants to do something or go somewhere, watch out! LOL He will do all he can to meet that goal he has taken upon himself to do!
He is so much fun!
He is a rough player…..he is learning to be gentle yet again, he is a big boy and only 4 weeks old -rock solid – and has much to learn about the power of his paws and puppy teeth.
You could not ask for a better snuggler when the time comes and he is ready for a snooze!
He is not high energy, just when he sets his mind to something, he just wants to do it! Then, he becomes a ‘man on the go!’
Puppy #10 – Born Tenth – September 13th, 2017 @ 2:45 AM
Blue with White Male
Weight: 501 g(1.11 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week old: 1 pounds
September 29th: 2 weeks old: 3 pounds, 4 oz
He is a big uber handsome boy! He is not the bravest of souls…..has some anxietty that is coming along nicely.
His confidence is improving daily and we are working on getting the right people to hold and love him when we are out at Vet visits/photo shoots etc…as each positive experience is making him reach his full potential.
He is not a leader….he is content to eat, be held and be loved on!
He will lay by my feet when it is feeding time…not demanding attention, yet making his presence known. He used to fall asleep due to stress for he did not understnad why he was fed some food and then he had to wait and be fed more food etc.
He is learning so much and is a gentle player….he is not a rough and tumble boy….at least not yet!
Stability, routine and consistency is what he needs….and he is thriving so well.
New situations make him a bit nervous yet once he gathers up his courage and realises that he is ‘ok’, he will take the world in stride.
Just needs a few minutes to size up the world and then his off to the races!
I am sad to make this post…..Sean feels just awful.
Today, The Bakers Dozen – Miss Blue Fawn had to go to the Vet as an emergency.
Sean was wonderfully overseeing The Bakers Dozen as I had to be out and I received a call.
When he was done feeding her, he was putting her back into the puppies pen and she wiggled and dropped about 18 inches. 
Her right front elbow area was in pain and she was not weight bearing. Minimal swelling, not hot to the touch.
I rushed home and on the way, scheduled to get her in immediately see the Vet yet then we had to be rescheduled as another emergency took priority. Another dog had an obstruction and needed emergency surgery, that poor doggie.
This is Miss Blue Fawn in Sean’s arms at Liston Animal Hospital….he feels absolutely wretched. Accidents can and do happen no matter how careful one is.
She weighed 3.1 pounds today and is 4 weeks of age.
She has what the Vet called a ‘Green Stick Fracture'(In Children it is often called a ‘Buckle Fracture’). Being a Giant Breed puppy with such big growth plates and bone still developing, this could have been a lot worse scenario.
She cannot go on pain meds as she is too young so no burprenorphine, tramadol, gabapentin or Deramaxx etc., for her. She can have the area iced.
She has to be segregated from her siblings – we are allowing the quieter, calm ones – such as big Blue boy and wee black girl to sleep with her.
The Vet says casting or splinting is of no big benefit and she is to come back in three weeks for a re-visit and repeat x-rays to be sure that all is healing well/properly. The Vet took several views to determine if there were several area’s of concern for she did have a slightly swollen toe too yet all appears to be isolated to this one fracture on her right leg.
Her Vet said that within three weeks, she should heal up beautifully being so young and fast maturing. Yet, we will be monitoring as shall her Vet, Dr. Liston.
Lots of TLC given….
I am now in need of an extra approved BHRR Volunteer for our event on Sunday October 15th to be with her exclusively. Please do email gwen@birchhaven.org if you want a beautiful young puppy to be in charge of from 10-4 pm this Sunday @ Pet Valu Stittsville.
It has been a brutal worrisome day and I keep saying tomorrow shall be better…
Puppy #2 – Born Second September 12th, 2017 @ 10:56 PM
Blue Fawn Female
Weight: 470 g(1.03 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week old: Weight: 1 pound, 3 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks old: Weight: 2 pounds, 10 oz
October 12th: 4 weeks old: Weight: 3 pounds, 1 oz
This girl could walk out of a mud pile clean! No matter the amount of ‘slurry’ that gets slung around, she is always super clean.
It would never cross her mind to step on a dirty pee pad either.
When we first started to introduce ‘slurry’, she was a bit possessive yet has settled down wonderfully.
Her face is the ultimate in feminine looks, coat is super soft and she is incredibly beautiful!
Regal and poised she is!
Puppy #1 – Born First September 12th, 2017 @ 10:13 PM
Tiny Black Female
Weight: 400 g(0.88 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week old: Weight 1 pound 4 oz
September 25th: Weight: 0.9 kg(1.9 pounds)
September 29th: 2 weeks old: Weight: 2 pounds
She is as sweet plus gentle as they come! Tiny and a survivor. I spent 10 days dropper feeding her and look at her now!
She is truly precious. Quiet, calm, loves to snuggle and she needs a name that is feminine yet one that demonstrates inner strength for she has overcome unbelievable odds.
She cannot be rushed….to do so would have meant her demise. She needs to feel comfortable and then she will eat well. She needs to sniff and taste test and come back and do it all over again. She sizes things up before she makes any decision. When she commits, she is all in!
The Bakers Dozen – First Professional Photo Shoot!
AND THEY ARE OFF!
October 10th, 2017
Almost 4 weeks of age! Born September 12th & September 13th, 2017
There are 5 boyz and 4 girls.
Sadly, FPS stole from our hearts/arms our two handsome black boyz and a blue girl and a brindle girl on September 20th, September 23rd, September 24th & September 25h. 
They will always be The miraculous Baker’s Dozen!
The odds they and their puppymill GD Mama Gem have overcome and continue to overcome is nothing sort of amazing…..
Puppy #11 – Eleventh Born – September 13th, 2017 @ 3:03 AM
Brindle Female
Weight: 410 g(0.90 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week: 1 pound, 15 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks: 2 pounds, 15 oz
This girl is a big mix of ‘spice’ and ‘sugar’!
She can be a bit of a diva, has demonstrated some resourcing over the ‘slurry’ yet has greatly improved.
She is so brilliantly smart!
She is a rough player! AND has been learning ‘gentle’.
Her world used to be ALL about her! She is now realising that there is more to the world than just her!
She can then be super sweet, cuddly, precious and loving….
She demonstrates amazing patience during feed time and has also learned that her time will come and again and again. She used to fall asleep due to the stress of having to wait yet now understands better that she is not going to be left out.
She is so pretty….sassy yet quiet calm if that makes sense.
She travels wonderfully in the car….yet, part of that is that it has stressed her out a bit at first and so she would go to sleep…what many dogs do to escape the stress.
Now, she can be as vocal as the others to show her displeasure about not being able to go and do what she wants when she wants!
She has a mind all of her own and I love her for that!
She is a bit more on the high maintenance side yet she is settling more and more as she matures and we work together.
Puppy #9 – Born Ninth – September 13th, 2017 @ 2:10 AM
Black Female #2
Weight: 480g(1.05 pounds)
September 20th: 1 week: Weight: 1 pound, 2 oz
September 29th: 2 weeks: 2 pounds, 13 oz
This BBBB is not like many of her siblings. She has her own agenda and while not as much as she used to be…she was a bit of a loner….
She is more interactive with the other pups now, playful and yet, she is clearly her own woman.
Quiet and calm, she tends to let most others take the attention and she has had to learn that she is equally important and deserves love/time and attention too!
She is now more likely to come to me on her own bidding and I love how her wee paw comes out to reach for me and I am so proud of her in learning that she is desrving too!
She is not a wallflower….she just is unique….she is a thinker….totally loving, gentle and sweet and does not seem to ‘get’ what all the fuss is about from some of the more ‘in your face pups’! She is patience personafied!
AND, I love the wee white tip on her tail!
First professional photo shoot!
Finally….all are at least still….even if they are not looking at the camera! 
Blue boy is fast asleep as is Blue Fawn Girl!
Mr. Brindle’s siblings look over at him/Elizabeth as if to say ‘Good Luck Elizabeth….’
Mr. Brindle says ‘I am outta here!’
Elizabeth putting Mr. Brindle Boy back into ‘formation’. What a hoot this night was!
Blue Fawn Male – Mr. Yellow makes a ‘break’ for it as Elizabeth is focused on Mr. Brindle! 
‘Still’ Shot Attempt #2! 
Sneak Peek!
One of the Candids I managed to snap tonight at The Bakers Dozen’s (almost 4 weeks old) first professional photo shoot! 
There are so many reasons why I love this photo and one of the biggest is that these amazing kind generous souls represent some of our small yet mighty fabu village that makes the heart beat so strongly for BHRR!
Thank you for coming out tonight to spend 1.5 hours giving these precious wee babies a positive experience! This is so essential to their proper development and reaching their full potential as they mature!
It is not ‘I’ that deserve any credit….it is all of you that are there for BHRR for you have done & do so much!
You are those strong links on BHRR’s ‘CHAIN OF SUCCESS’ and The Bakers Dozen would not be doing as well as they are without such rescue angels giving of themselves by donating their hard earned money, much needed items and/or time to assist us…..YOU DONE SO GOOD as the expression goes! 
I am so grateful to all of you. I am blessed as are all the animals of BHRR for I cannot do this alone and my family’s belief and your belief has enabled us to be here almost 22 years later helping the truly broken, the urgent, the underdogs that others cannot or will not assist and helping them have such wonderful futures.
Each of you have helped write the next beautiful chapters for the journey’s of so many over the years….
You have my eternal gratitude, my humbled thanks and my forever appreciation….
From my home to all of our friends, family & supporters, Good Night!
All loaded up!
AND we are on our way……shortly!
First a late afternoon snack on the porch of our cottage building.
Tonight, The Bakers Dozen are having their first professional photo shoot! They shall be four weeks old very soon! Another huge milestone!
From there, we will do our name game fundraiser and begin to take applications for possible future approved adoptions when they are ready to go!
Blue Whelping Collar Boy – Is turning more into a blue fawn brindle as he grows!
BHRR Breaking News / Updates / Alerts!
1) I wanted to extend the biggest and most sincerest and incredibly humbled thanks to so many Powdered Esbilac Angels! I have been witness to a lot of amazing and touching acts of kindness over the past 21.5 years BHRR has been around and what has come this way to The Bakers Dozen has warmed me right to my soul. I was so fearful of having our needs for Powdered Esbilac for The Bakers Dozen filled and when we posted our urgency, a wonderfully strong community of caring hearts came together to assist us. I am deeply and forever indebted to each of you…. Thank you everyone for helping us!! I have always said it takes a village to raise children and it is no different for a litter of puppies, especially those sadly rejected by a broken emaciated Puppymill GD Mama. She is doing quite well physically herself now and emotionally it shall be a lot longer to rehab. One day at at time!
Our remaining urgent needs are Pee Pads, appropriate Giant Breed puppy toys and donations towards their Vet Bills which will be into the many thousands.
PVD Essential Care Puppy canned & Kibble are also in big need – Vet Food
Accounts are set up at Kanata Animal Hospital 613-836-2848 and also Liston Animal Hospital 613-591-0966 under their Mama Gem.
The Bakers Dozen are all back to Liston Animal Hospital on November 7th!
2) We ONLY have 7 more BHRR Custom, One-of-kind 2018 Calendars left available for ordering! $30 each and s&h if needed is $7 Email gwen@birchhaven.org
We will take orders until October 12th @ 9 pm.
3) I hope to get the Flash Auction up soon. I am doing my best!
4) The Bakers Dozen have their next Vet visit scheduled for Tuesday November 7th @ 5 pm at LAH and I am seeking 8 more approved BHRR Volunteers for extra puppy wrangling…..I mean loving hands to assist me at this Vet visit! Please email gwen@birchhaven.org if you can help! Please do not post in this thread for we may miss your wonderful offer!
5) The Bakers Dozen shall be at Pet Valu Stittsville – 1250 Main Street – (if all is going well!) on Sunday October 15th from 10 AM – 4 PM as part of Pet Valu’s annual Thanks For Giving Event. We will be doing nails, dog baths, ear cleanings, have cotton candy, popcorn and baked goodies for sale too!
6) YES! By popular demand! The tickets for our 2018 Annual Dine With The BHRR Doggies are now on sale! We are already more than 50% SOLD Out!
This is a limited registration attendee event.
Date: Saturday September 22nd, 2018 – same place BHRR! Same times – 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
We are not raising our ticket costs. They have been the same price for many years and we shall keep the prices the same for 2018!
$45/per ticket or $85/pair
Please email gwen@birchhaven.org to purchase yours! More information found in the below link. This year’s total raised is still being calculated yet I can say we are over $3,400 and counting!! How deeply humbling!
http://www.birchhaven.org/fundraising-2008/sept-28-dine-bhrr
7) Yes, we shall be hosting our annual popular November BHRR ‘EXPERIENCE’ Mini Open House. Please email gwen@birchhaven.org for date/times! Attendance is by registration only and this is a limited attendee event. Attendance is a $10/pp donation fee to be paid at the time of registration. Please email gwen@birchhaven.org if interested! We feel it is so important for people to experience first hand what we do, why we do it and why we are so needed in the community.
8) BHRR’s 15th Annual SS(Secret Santa) to the BHRR Doggies is coming up fast! More information on our unique and creative annual event can be found in this link. At this time, BHRR has 31 more amazing dogs in need of a special secret Santa to call their own! Please email gwen@birchhaven.org if you can help us give the BHRR Doggies a most wonderful XMAS spoiling time!
http://www.birchhaven.org/fundraising-20…/2009-secret-santas
9) Our 6th Annual BHRR’s CHAIN OF SUCCESS “THANK YOU” Potluck is Saturday December 16th from 2 PM – 8 PM.
FREE YET PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED & You can join our facebook group for more information and all the fun details!
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php…
This picture is of The Bakers Dozen today – 3.5 weeks of age – in the ‘feed’ part of their 8 x 5 x 4 pen. They are now devouring 38.5 cups of Powdered Esbilac a day!
We have also been introducing them to ‘slurry’ once a day – two cans of PVD Essential Care Puppy Food extremely well mixed into 6 cups of Esbilac with a dollop of corn syrup etc. They are not quite developmentally ready yet they are being exposed to it as no less than two puppies are quite texture phobic!
The area on the left that you see a crate piece covering is a hole we have in the custom pen Sean & Mason built that allows us to put one of the electric fireplaces on to add additional heat if needed into their pen. We have not had to do so since they were first born as they are regulating their bodies wonderfully!
From our home to all of our friends, family and supporters, Happy Thanksgiving! We feel we have so much to be thankful for, even in the days we are feeling so much darkness….we know we have many blessings, even if we do not realise it at the time…
One Of The Bakers Dozen – October 6th, 2017
*3 weeks of age*
Puppy #10 Blue Male Born: 2:45 AM on September 13th, 2017
Weight: 501 g
On September 29th, at 2 weeks of age he weighed 3 pounds, 4 ounces
I use a receiving blanket or thick towel across my lap when I bottle feed them and he likes to hang by my feet on the side of my chair.
My towel fell down as I was putting his brother – Brindle Boy down and he crawled right in it and fell asleep…
DID not have the heart to disturb him! I just got another towel and kept feeding…
This litter has me so emotioinally tied to them….ADORE them!
PS: Puppies are born with really long nails as that is what they need to ‘claw’ their way around to feed as they cannot walk. THEY sure are sharp as the marks on my arms and fingers can attest too!
Next week when they are 4 weeks of age, I will do a small trim on them as they are all up and rolling and wobbling and bobbling and getting stronger every day.
Mark Your Calendars! One Day ONLY!
We shall be at Pet Valu Stittsville (1250 Main Street) on Sunday October 15th from 10-4 pm!
The Bakers Dozen shall be there – no touching shall be possible yet they will be on hand to help us thank so many in the community for stepping up on an urgent basis to help us help them! Puppymill Mama Gem understandably shall not be in attendance.
We will be doing nails and dog baths and ear cleanings for $10 AND we are hoping to have some kind people step up to help us bake some goodies to offer visitors as this is all about The Bakers Dozen! ?? Please do email gwen@birchhaven.org if you would consider baking something.
We will have our signature/tradition of having popcorn & cotton candy for sale too!
We could use one more approved BHRR Volunteer for that day. Please email!
Thank you to Gail/Ryan for the spectacular poster and to Bre of Pet Valu Stittsville for inviting us to their beautiful store!
We will also be collecting Canadian Tire money, Empties, Pee Pads, Pet Valu Gift Cards at this event!
BHRR attends very few community education & public awareness events each year and this will be our second last of 2017!
ISO: Puppy Wranglers!
The Bakers Dozen shall be a miraculous 3 weeks of age shortly!! Three pups were back at the Vet today – Liston Animal Hospital – for various reasons and all of The Bakers Dozen are doing so well….truly, one of the most exhausting and difficult top five things I have ever done in my almost three decades in rescue and also one of the most rewarding…..
As they come close to 4 weeks of age next week, we are preparing for their first photo shoot – at just shy of 4 weeks of age at that time – with the ever talented Melissa! She assisted us in documenting the BHRR Puppy Pile x 7 born into rescue in 2016 and it was a wonderful journey doing this with Melissa.
I am in need of 9….YUP! 9 BHRR Approved Volunteers to help love on and keep track of The Bakers Dozen puppies at this professional photo shoot.
Date: Tuesday October 10th
Location: Manotick – I will send the link to those that sign up
Time: 5:45 pm
Please do not post here for I may well miss your kind offer of help! Please email gwen@birchhaven.org
*NOTE: if you have a sick dog at home, please do not sign up….The Bakers Dozen are vulnerable.*
I posted this picture earlier in another thread yet this is of one of the Blue Fawn boyz(blue whelping collar) after a good feed at the milk bottle bar.
Once we have the professional photo’s, we will do our name game fundraiser to help raise much needed monies for their care which is going to cost many many many thousands of dollars.
At that time, we shall also then consider applications for possible future approved adoptions. Note: We only place per right match personality fit and their temperaments have been present from birth and we have a whole range again in this rescue litter.
Puppymill Mama Gem will be with us a very long time before she will be ready to make her own special announcement…..one day at a time….
BHRR’s Gus, The Neo!
ADOPTED!
This is our 400th Adoption For BHRR.
Thank you to his new lovely forever loving adoptive home in going through our detailed and thorough adoption process. Thank you for opening up your home on this glorious fall day for the home-visit and spending time with us.
Thank you to Allie for helping to do this home-visit with me and to Kinsley for being my road trip partner. 
BHRR’s Gus, I have been doing road trips for home-visits for over two decades and you were literally one of the best travel and hotel buddies ever!! You rocked the whole experience and for a dog that came to me with anxiety issues, this was a huge accomplishment for you!
I already miss you and your big loving mushball personality and huge zest for life. Everyone knows when you walk into a room…..
This is what we must do…..adopt the ones that we can so that we then can assist others in need of our programs.
I so look forward to watching the exciting chapters of your future unfold.
You have been a true joy and a real hoot to have had in our home/rescue and I shall forever remain humbled by how you looked at me with those soul reaching eyes….thank you for your trust, your loyalty, your eagerness to please, your continued attempts to always get your way, your smarts, your great ability to ‘work’ a room and most of all for your enormous heart….the world is your big playground and you are a gift that so many are going to be touched to receive…..
You are deeply loving and affectionate….I adore that about you and how proud you are of yourself when you have done something that once made you a bit worried and now makes you so happy!
The only limits you shall ever have in life are those that people will impose upon you and those limits should be so few and far between….you are brimming with so much potential.
Kinsley & I are off for a well earned lunch and then to make the long drive home…cannot wait to see my Bakers Dozen, Sean, Mason, my other dogs and horses again! No place like home!
DESPERATELY NEED Powdered Esbilac!
Here are three of The Bakers Dozen! After a good feed at the milk bottle bar!
Unfortunately, we are in a panic situation right now. Even though we have had several posts and/or emails of kind people offering to assist us and donate Powdered Esbilac, we have not yet had any come our way from our latest urgent request…. 
I did manage to find two large 794 g containers of powdered Esbilac in Barrie, Ontario today after doing the hv for BHRR’s Gus and that will enable us to have enough for The Bakers Dozen until Tuesday night.
This is a terrifying situation to be in and I am sincerely hoping with all my heart that some angels may help us with our urgent need of more Powdered Esbilac for The Bakers Dozen.
They are not yet even three weeks old and we need another 3.5-4 weeks worth…..
Please please please consider their cause….
**DROP-OFF – Powdered Esbilac can be dropped off to 424 Pickford Drive, Kanata – Anytime**
Email transfer or PayPal funds – gwen@birchhaven.org
First picture is Brindle Female, Second picture is Blue Fawn Boy(Whelping Collar Yellow) & Blue Fawn Female.
Gus
Adopted to his forever loving home (his story)