What have we been doing? Summer 2017 – Yestie and the Pups

This summer was mostly about Yestie and her four little pups!

Yestie’s little ones were born in May and I travelled to Moscow several times to see them. I am so grateful that Yulia had the puppies and that Yestie was a wonderful mum. There are some wonderful photos of the little ones to show on here. The hardest thing was deciding WHICH puppy I would keep. BECAUSE I could not keep EVERY puppy like I did with Vicky’s litter in 2015!!!

There were two boy pups (one dapple) and two girl pups (both dapple), and I wanted to keep a dapple pup. At 8 weeks, we had some stunning photos done by Irina Sasonova, and Yulia also watched the pups run around very carefully – and we made the decision I would keep little Reine Belle. But that the Black and Tan boy pup, Royale Bonbon, was also very lovely and possibly looks better than his sister. I decided I would look for a co-owner for Bonbon and keep Belle.

Photos at 12 weeks also were done, and again, little Belle was wonderful and Bonbon as well….but I also LOVED Bisou and Beau. BUT NO, I could not keep everyone! So I looked and found wonderful owners for the two larger dapple puppies, one boy and one girl.

At 17 weeks, they could travel, and thanks to the help of a friend, we drove all the way to Moscow and brought Yestie and the four puppies back, along with a lovely 13-month old Black and Tan kaninchen boy that Yulia has bred called Eschio Odno Chudo iz Mishkinogo Doma (Yet Another Miracle). He is amazing, already Russian Junior Champion, wonderful personality and I think will be a lovely father to some pups we have planned in 2018!

Now I have Bonbon and Belle living with me! But….possibly one day little Bonbon will be living with a co-owner. We are waiting to see how they look in a couple of months. I didn’t get to have them as little puppies, so I am enjoying the 4-5-6 month old puppy phase with them!

I am lucky that the owners from Beau and Bisou send photos and I can see them growing up, as well!!

Last weekend, Makar went to his first show at Leuven, where he became Best Junior with his first point towards Belgian Junior Champion. And for fun, I took Yestie, not quite five months after having the puppies, she went in the ring and only became Best Female/Best Opposite Sex! She still loves to show. My sweetheart Yestie!

SO, finally, my Mandaladax team is all back together! Photos top to bottom, Royale Bonbon, Reine Belle and the bottom is all four pups together.