Well I'm beside myself with excitement!

Back in June we put our English Shepherd, Thatcher, down (he was 14yrs, 7.5mo) (post in this thread here).

Well we put money down on a puppy a few months ago and today mama whelped and has dropped 4 puppies so far (2 male, 2 female ... there could be 1-2 more in the next 24 hours). We're first in line for the males (the females are already spoken for before birth).

So far they're all clear sables (so they'll look more like mama. We were hoping for a dark sable like papa, but color is secondary to personality).

Here's mama:

Here's papa:

Thatcher was a tri color and his predecessor, Murphy, was B&W so I'm kinda glad we're getting a different coloring.


New dog is going to be named Zeke and he should be coming home mid March.

I can't wait