You know, the hardest thing about raising puppies isn’t cleaning kennels and scooping puppy waste three times a day. It isn’t getting up three times during the night in the puppies’ first week to make sure everything is ok. It isn’t staying up all night with their mommy when she is in labor. It isn’t keeping track of who’s who and who needs what every single day. It isn’t being tied down to home every day for 8 weeks so the puppies all get the time and attention I believe they need.
The hardest thing about raising puppies is having to say goodbye.
I am there in the whelping box with their mother as she gives birth……. I am holding them when they aren’t feeling well…….I am there with them and loving them every day for the first eight weeks of their lives…..
……and then all of a sudden I have to say goodbye. It is hard. I miss them.
But now this litter of nine puppies is bringing much joy to nine different families. And that makes me happy. 
Oh the puppy is so soft and cuddly after a bath!
Liesl gets to spend some special time with one of her boys just before he leaves.
Liesl and Robey saying goodbye to their boys.
Liesl spending a little time with one of her daughters the morning she leaves.
There is nothing like a puppy.
