Growing Up!!

The puppies are growing quickly and I've spent way too many hours just watching them and marveling at the beauty of them growing up!  It is so awesome to watch them progress day by day as they learn new skills.  They just seem to be so happy.  They are healthy - nice shiny coats and bright eyes.  Strong little legs.  Teeth coming in.  This past week they started on puppy food mush and I introduced new toys to them.  They LOVE to eat!  LOL  Here are a couple of pics of them sleeping recently.  Check out my YouTube channel for video.

I still have two boys available to the right homes.  Please email for more info!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday!

Happy New Year!

WoTeH'sin Shih Tzu hopes you had a wonderful 2013 holiday season!  We wish you all the best in 2014!

Sadly my breeding with Kiki and Magic did not take and so we do not have puppies available at this time.  The future holds potentially two breedings this year that should occur mid to late 2014.  I will update the upcoming litter page as events occur.

There are lots of other changes for us here personally coming up this year.  We will be relocating to a new residence in late January.  This comes with lots of excitement and stress of course, but this move is one that I have been planning for a long time.  The move won't be far, only 8 miles, but it means packaging up over eight years of stuff here, so purging and packing will be the focus over the next couple of weeks.

Once moved I hope to have a surgical procedure that will finally rid me of the nearly two years of chronic pain I have endured.  I am hopeful that I have sought the best medical professionals for my case and that soon I will be able to walk again freely without the use of a cane.  I trust then that I can rid myself of intense pain medications paving the road to normalcy once again. 

If you are so inclined, please keep us in your prayers and good thoughts for a safe move and for a successful outcome to my surgery.  Through this I am blessed to have my pups around me - they give me strength and purpose to keep plugging along.  They are my motivation every single day.

A Puppy For Christmas

The emails start coming in for Christmas puppies in December usually.  I actually received a few inquires beginning in November this year. 

Here's a lovely example of a recent exchange I had:


Name: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX
Email: XXX.XXXXXXXX@gmail.com
Message:  I found your Shih Tzu listing at Breeders.NET

Hello I am interested in buying a baby girl puppy for my kids for Christmas. If you could please let me know if you have one and what price. Thank you:)


And my standard Christmas puppy response followed:

On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:03 AM, wotehsinst@aol.com wrote:

XXXXXX:

Thank you for your inquiry, however even if I had puppies available at or around the holiday - I would not place them as Christmas presents. Nor do I entertain birthday or anniversary inquiries. Please refer to this article.

Christmas is really the absolute worst time of the year to place a puppy. There is too much happening for anyone to possibly focus on the needs of a puppy at that time. There are breeders out there that gear up for Christmas because it's their biggest sales season of the year for them. They will sell puppies too young to be going anywhere just to turn that Christmas buck.

But that's not how I operate.

You might consider giving puppy supplies as Christmas gifts to announce your decision to bring a pet into your home and instead focus on finding the right breeder and dog for your family. When it comes to finding the perfect member for your family, it's better to take your time and research the breeders involved and find someone that can provide you the best possible dog, health wise etc. for your family at your financial comfort level. Buying strictly on timing is the poorest way to find the right dog.

Check out the American Shih Tzu Club website for things to look for when selecting a breeder and also breeder referral.

Best of luck in your search -

Nancy Manelski

WoTeH'sin Shih Tzu

 

And here is the lovely response I received:

From: XXXXXX XXXXXXXX <XXX.XXXXXXXX@gmail.com>
To: wotehsinst <wotehsinst@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 7:38 pm
Subject: Re: I found your Shih Tzu listing at Breeders.NET

Wow a little too much information a simple no would have been fine.....weirdo!!

XXXXXX XXXXXXXX

 

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Nice, huh?  Try to educate the general public and look what happens.  Nice manners and a lovely email to receive on Thanksgiving Eve.  Honey, are you raising your kids to be as polite and receptive to education as you obviously were? 

 

I hope no one places a puppy with this family.  Because honestly, I see the writing on the wall.  Loved for a moment in time and then forgotten, some poor puppy will likely end up in a shelter out of this home when that puppy is no longer convenient for the family.  Tossed aside likely as several other Christmas gifts that have outlived the instant gratification high the kids get once the next present is revealed, or the poor puppy has an accident in the house after being chased or hounded by likely unruly children that scare the poor baby half to death. 

 

Nope.  Not one of my puppies.  Ever.

What Did You Do On Easter Sunday?

Well, we all know that Velvet got a bath.

Dallas went on an Easter egg hunt!

And Gracie?  Well Gracie was just adorable!  :)

How was your Easter?

Happy Thanksgiving

Not much going on here on this traditional holiday.  Except we are being nontraditional.  No turkey.  No gravy.  Shrimp cocktail was for lunch.  Salmon with broccoli for dinner shared with the mutts!  Chocolate dipped raspberries for desert.  Yum!  :)

I had wonderful news today!  More on THAT later!  :)

Here is hoping that you and yours have a lovely Thanksgiving holiday - traditional or not!