Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies -The Whole Litter!

Hello Folks, wow, almost a week old already, and Growing-Growing.. the puppies are doing wonderful.. what a colorful pretty litter, I just love these wonderful typical Icelandic Sheepdog white markings, as per the Breed Standard. These are going to be very flashy Adult Icelandics.

Have a great day from the waggy tailed Icelandic Sheepdog Gang.

Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies for Sale - 3 Females and 1 Male Available.

Icelandic Sheepdog Newborn Puppy Photos!

Hello Folks,

Newborn photos of the babies on? What else, a sheepskin rug.. So cute.. Enjoy their photos.. so cute..

Have a good day from the Waggy Tail Icelandic Sheepdog Gang

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Icelandic Sheepdog Valentine Litter is HERE!!!!

Hello Folks,

What a long! night but we have new puppies..

We are pleased to annouce that we have been honored to have four new Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies join our home.

After making me wait all day, they were indeed determined to be born on Valentines Day..

First Born is Greenstone Blackmores Knight - A stunning Black Tri Female, she is very much her father's daughter with typical white markings, Blaze, collar, Chest, socks and white tail tip, she appears to be a long hair, and has Double Dewclaws on both back legs.

Second Born is Greenstone Rudolf Valentino - A HUGE lovely Chinchilla Male, this boy is a whooper! He just screams MALE, in his head and chest even as a newborn. Very striking markings, Blaze, Collar, Chests, Socks and a small white tail tip, Double Dewclaws on both rear legs. Appears at this time to be a Med Coat

Third Born is Greenstone Cinnamon Girl - A nice big female Chinchilla, she has the same markings as Grandma Ima, Ch Belglen Risna, and Greenstone Fire and Ice , right down to her swing of color on her collar. Appears at this time to be a Med coat. Nice double dewclaws on her rear legs.

Fourth Born is Greenstone Sugar an Spice - is a very pretty refined chincilla female, she has the very same white color pattern as her Uncle Ch Belglen Riddari, in terms of her wide collar and full white chest and front legs, she is a lovely Ying/Yang in face ,with a Tinni Spot on her head and two full colored ears, she has a white tail tip, and appears to be a med coat at this time. She has double Dewclaws on both rear legs.

All the puppies are doing wonderful, they were all born very close together in birth weights for the females and as expected the big male is heavier. All are nursing and content, now if only I could get some sleep..

Happy Valentines Day Everyone, Photos are coming later today..

Have a great day from the waggy Tailed Icelandic Sheepdog Gang..

Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies for sale- please inquire if you are interested in learning more.

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I want my Whelping Box!! LOL Icelandic Sheepdog Momma Dogs can be SO demanding LOL

Hi Folks

I love momma dogs, why is it that if they have their heads in a nice dark spot that they think I can't see their butts and big old belly out the rear end..

Well, I think that Vaskur really knew what he was doing and that Runa was ready on their first breeding, and that we will have puppies a bit early..

I was a bit surprised this morning, when a certain (always Staving MOM!) momma dog to be didn't want her breakfast.. hmmmm tip off number one..

Then came the walk up and give you the "STARE"- I want something from you.. hmmmm Tip number 2 that something is up...

Then comes the I will check out every corner and dark spot on the main floor, even though I have already checked them before and declared them not good enough for MY pups.. but still tip off number 3.. digging on the bare floor with a look at me.. like.. hello where is my Blankets!!!

Finally as if I needed it, I was already setting up the day bed, and was in and out of the laundry room and who comes out with a big towel between her teeth that was stole from the clean laundry basket on the floor- Tip Four.. If you don't give me bedding I will just take it!

LOL... So now she has her very own den in the living room, complete with cover, tons of dog blankets to dig and move around to her hearts content, and when it was all put together, she walked in.. and settled down.. and nothing now.... so now we wait!

Needless to say, I am going to guess that we will have puppies today or tomorrow, will keep you posted..

Once she is alot closer, we will move downstairs to the real birthing box in our Master Bedroom, but I don't want to be tied to the bedroom all day and I do want to be able to keep a very close eye on her, so this is the middle ground, she is happy and I can still do my chores and housework, while listening for the sounds of digging etc.

I really hope she waits for Valentine day!!! How cool would that be...

Count down for puppies--- SOON-VERY SOON!

Have a great day from the Waggy Tailed Icelandic Sheepdog Gang.

Greenstone Cool Hand Luke Photo Update- New Names Idea's Added for our Icelandic Sheepdog Valentine Litter

Hello Folks

It was a nice weekend despite the cold/snow/winds, these things never bother our lovely eqaully weather proof double coated med or long haired Icelandic Sheepdogs, they think playing out in a snow storm is a treat indeed.

Now got this lovely photo of Olof, but directly behind him was another dog sniffing the butt of a different dog, so if you think that the top looks wiggled with, thats because it is.. I refused to put the photo with the sniff going out, so I deleted it so I could put up the rest of the photo.. LOL

Names for the coming Litter -Thanks for the folks that wrote in the new name ideas, I have now updated the list.. keep them coming and I will keep adding them..

1) Be mine Valentine

2) Cupid's Arrow

3) Lady in Red

4) Sharp Dressed Man * This is a great name but was used for our kennel already.

5) Romancing the Stone

6) Saint Valentine

7) Ima Sassy Vixen

8)Sugar N Spice

9)Venus Icelandix

10)Moondance

11)Moon Shadow

12)Brown Eyed Girl

13)Heart of Gold

14)Royal Velvet

15)Vitta Red

16)Valentina Loverly

17) Love Me Tender

18)Bella Donna

19)Puppy Tail Kisses

20)Roses are Red

Only seven more days till the cutest litter of Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies are due!

Have a great Day from the Waggy Tailed Icelandic Sheepdog Gang.

Spoiled Icelandic Sheepdog Mama to be

Good Morning Folks

Well if you are like me, then you are always on the look out for new things for the dogs, new toys, new chew toys, new recipes for treats or meals, new leash/collar ideas, new dog beds, basicly anything and everything that can make my dogs life more interesting/comfortable I will try it at least once.

Well, I saw this ad in the farm store, for this heated bed, now it was not cheap and I drooled a bit over the idea of it, but the cost was high..and as my first thought was that would be great for in the whelping box for puppies to sleep on, my second thought was.. hmmm can it get wet without having issues.. Well a little research later and it turns out that while it can't get dunked, it is designed for outdoor living and getting a bit damp it is to be fine..

So this week a new flyer came out and it was on sale! Well that was what I was waiting for, and off to the store we went, I got the biggest one they had, and its still only the right size for a ISD.

Well I had to plug it in and set it up and see if any of the dogs liked it.. so Bella loves it, loves it enough that i might have to go back and get her one of her own in the future.. I am sure that the gentle warmth helps her sore older hips etc.

But the main dog that has "claimed it" is Runa, she first sat on it, then layed down and then leaned over and closed her eyes with a Ahh does that feel good, now it seems everytime I turn around she is laying down on it.. so I just had to get a photo of how cute she looks on her heated bed..Do you think she will share with the puppies?

Puppy countdown only nine more days till we have new Icelandic Sheepdog puppies Due

Have a good day from the Waggy Tailed Icelandic Sheepdog Gang..

Icelandic Sheepdog Litter coming- Valentine Litter! Help Name that Litter!

Hello Folks

Well the count down as began, only Twelve Days till my baby girls Due date... Of course, its just a due date but its the first time we have had puppies due so very close to Valentine..

So its only fitting that this litter have a Valentine Thyme to it, and I thought it would be alot of fun to enlist all my fellow ISD lovers and pet owners in helping put together a list of names to look at.

Now clearly once the puppies are born, and start to get their temperments in, that will be part of the naming process but I would love to have you or your children think up some very cool names for us to look at.

So we are thinking anything to do with Valentine, we don't normally use Icelandic Names or words, so an examples would be

Greenstone Be my Valentine

Greenstone Happy Heart Waggy Tails

Now I would perfer if possable that all the names have V's in them but I am aware that it will take some work to make that happen... so let the fun begin.

You get the idea..

Have a great day from the Waggy Tail Icelandic Sheepdog Gang...

Greenstone Icelandic Sheepdog Data 2008

Hello Folks

Well those that know me well, know that I love to keep databases, and part of the fun of those data bases is getting to figure out stats (ok, the love of Stats comes with my formal education)

So for those that will find this interesting, this is the coat color/type and pattern info on the current Greenstone Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies, this does not include my own breeding dogs, just the puppies.

So in coat colors right now the choices are

Yellow Gene -Ranging from a Dark tan to Dark Reddish Brown- 27%
Yellow Gene with Sable Factor -Ranging from Dark Tan to Dark Reddish Brown with Black hairs-54%
Black Tri- With full pigment on tan-11%
Black Silver Tri- With Chincilla factor on Tan markings- 8%


So in terms of Coat Length - Per the CKC Icelandic Sheepdog Standard.



Short haired:The outer coat of medium length, fairly coarse, with a thick, soft undercoat. The hair is shorter on the face, top of head, ears and front of legs, longer on the neck, chest and back of thighs. The tail is bushy and the hair length is in proportion to the coat.

Short Coated - 60% of Greenstone Puppies are Short/Med Coated

Longer-haired:The outer coat is longer than the above, fairly coarse, with a thick, soft undercoat. The hair is shorter on the face, top of head, ears and front of legs, longer behind the ears, on the neck, chest, behind the forelegs and back of thighs. The tail is very bushy and the hair length is in proportion to the coat

Long Coated- 40% of Greenstone Puppies are Long Coated.

Coat Patterns

Solid- Less then 5% of the total body has white markings- 10% of Greenstone Puppies
Tri- Typical ISD markings, Blazes/White Collars/White Socks/White Tail Tip -77% of Greenstone Puppies.
Pied- Patches of Color on a white background (think Pinto Horse)-10%
Extreme Pied-Less then 25% color on a white Background -3%

Hope you will find this interesting in some way.. I know I do..

Barks

Company from Yellowknife- Puppies! are coming soon!

Hello Folks

Well life is so busy right now, I will try and update once in awhile, I have company arriving soon from yellowknife for the week, and then company arriving on Sunday for a week, and even more from Iceland, and then off to Calgary, so I will be out of contact with most folks till fall, but will try and put updates on the litters and puppies, and dog shows and how the dogs did etc

Both Dalla and Ada are getting nice and big, at this time, we have a waiting list for seven plus me between the two litters and given the size of the females, I think its very likely that we will have more puppies then that. I think given the size of the females right now, that we will have litters of six plus, I have never seen them this big before..

We are expecting, 75% med coated, 25% long coated puppies, We are expecting, 75% Dark Clean Red/White and 25% Black Tri's. We have a 50 percent chance of our typical flashing Greenstone Tri (white) markings, and for the first time ever! we have a 50 percent chance of show qaulity pied marked puppies. We are expecting Double dewclaws on all the puppies, we are expecting 50% black masked, and 50% no black mask in the puppies. We are expecting med to dark brown eye color, in all the puppies, we are expecting a 100 percent black pigment on all the puppies.

Given that Dalla has outproduced herself in her very limited breedings to date, and that her son is the TOP Icelandic Sheepdog in Canada for 2006 and that Darri's littersister Runa was the first Female CKC Champion in Canada, and Ada herself has taken a number of BOB, and BOS, including 3 point majors.. we are expecting two litters of very! high quality Icelandic Sheepdog Puppies in the coming litters.

We are very much looking for folks that would be willing to consider Showing/Breeding in Canada for the coming litters. I would be happy to answer any of your questions, and send puppy owner references both in Canada and in the United States.

I hope to put up some new photos of the dogs this week with our vistors, I am so looking forward to the visit, my dear girlfriend Hill and family are coming down to visit, I have not seen her and her family in way to long.. that is the problem when you live from one end to the other in the country..

The above puppy is Greenstone Lightening is a great example of the amazing type that Dalla has produced in past.. this little tike, grew into a most amazing male, he lives in southern Ontario.

Barks

Greenstone Puppy Photos

Hello Folks

Things are busy, busy with the coming dog shows, the new births in the barn, spring is in the air and so lots of fun but hard work being done. Dogs are all wonderful, everyone is healthy and happy :) Three new Training classes for agility starting in March, which will take me up to four training times per week plus at home training.

So what I will post today, is one very cute casual photos of the some of the Greenstone Puppies from last year, just hanging out in the yard with us, enjoy.. and hope some of them make you smile

Barks

New United States Litter on the Ground

Hello Folks

As you can imagine, I am friends with a number of other Icelandic Sheepdog owners and fellow Breeders across both Canada, North America as well as Iceland and Europe.

I am so pleased to annouce that we have a couple lovely new male puppies born in Western United States.

One of my friends is Maragret from Valhalla Icelandics Kennel, and she is one the proud owner of Kersin's Odinn CGC, who is shown here in this photo, a nice Red/White Med Icelandic Stud.

To learn more about Odinn and the rest of the Valhalla Icelandics, feel free to check out her website.

www.valhallaicelandics.com

The litter is out of Hannah Glora Fra Dyggur owned and bred by Kathy Engstrom, to see more about Hannah, please check out the litter page at, puppy updates to come.

http://www.valhallaicelandics.com/montanalitter.html

If you are looking for a lovely little male puppy out of healthy (both parents have their CERF and HD-Free rates) pair of Icelandics, then this is a good litter to be looking at.

Barks