As a few of you know, I've been under the weather and Jon decided that it would be best for me to get away for a bit. While we were in Cornwall, I visited Mara's breeder and saw her last litter of puppies. One really caught my eye and Jon bought him. He's just what the doctor ordered -- something to keep me busy.

I know that on one of the threads there was a post about where to get a puppy carrier (like the kind of 'frontpack' that mothers use to carry infants about). Since this guy is very young and will not be able to walk about safely (at least until he has a couple of innoculations) and we take him everywhere with us, I'd like to be able to put him in a puppy sac rather than have both arms occupied carrying him like a baby.

If anyone can remember where to get these handy little carriers, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.

P.S. Leigh and Mark, I'll be a bit more focused and able to formulate the cyber show shortly. I apologize, but my mental health has taken quite a pounding lately and I'm slowly getting back to normal.

A new puppy !!! Lucky you ... tell me more :-)

I am so broody at the moment ...not like me at all ..lol .. I was ok until I saw the latest Bracco litter :rolleyes:

Anyway, glad that you are feeling better and we look forward to hearing from you shortly.

Leigh

Will do one better, Leigh.... look in your email box soon and I'll have a picture of Kai in there!

Thank you for the picture Sierra.
What a beautiful puppy :-) Just my type !
I look forward to seeing him at some point.

Leigh

I will email you later

Hi Leigh,

Was the bracco litter quite recent?

Hello,
Yes, 11 puppies born a week ago :-) Don't get to excited though, they have all been sold to working homes.

Leigh

Leigh is one of the homes your's ;-)

Noooooooo, my next one will come in from Italy ;-) Leigh x

Well I bagseye giving him/her a great big kiss and cuddle :D Will it be in time for Crufts next year or do you plan to take bear again *she say's pleadingly*

She hasn't been born yet Claire :P and when she has ..it will be a further 10 months before she can come to the UK :-( So no Crufts for her! As for Bear, I would love to take him but he has to be*invited* to attend now.
So don't hold your breath :-) Leigh x

Right, who sends out the invites and I'll ring them up and tell them to invite bear cos he's too irresistable not to be at Crufts and Aunty Claire wants a big kiss :p

Ooops I did get a bit excited didn't I considering she's not even born yet can't imagine how excited you must be just at the thought of it :-)

How are you anyway, pity you can't get into chat anymore.

Claire
x

Never fear Claire ...there will be bracchi at Crufts, even if Bear is excluded .... so you can have your fix :P

I will let you know when my new one is on the scene.

Hope you and yours are all well? I'm great and life's good at the moment, thanx for asking :-)

Tis a shame about chat.

Leigh x

Leigh, course not, I know where I am getting my puppy from, if all goes to plan :)
Is it the Shaw's litter? I know they are very into working their bracci.

Mistress

Yep :-)

So sorry to hear you have not been well Sierra but pleased to hear you are recovering. Congratulations on the new puppy and I would also love to see a photo of him.

I have a bag for carrying small dogs or puppies around that I bought from Country Mun at Crufts one year, 01403 711305. I don't find it altogether successful with young puppies unless they are very tired though as they wriggle and fight to get out so much. I did use it with Peanut in the last few days before she had her puppies, she still wanted to go out with the other dogs but couldn't walk as far as them. It enabled her to walk as far as she wanted and have me carry her for the rest of the time.

Pet Planet do several carrying bags.

Joan
Take the rough with the smooth

It was me who posted about them because a whippet breeder I know has one, but I can't remember if she bought it or it was made for her.

I'm off to check the Pet Plant link below though as if they have one I may get one myself (no puppies in the near future, but just to be prepared).

Congrats on your new little one.

Wendy

Hi

I've got the puppy carrier your on about but it's not any good for lab puppies they are too heavy for it!!! Mine's been tried a few times but never used.
The design could do with another strap to go around the waist!!!!

Which one do you have? Am actually now considering buying an infant carrier and stitching up the leg openings. Kai weighs 4.75 kg already at 7 weeks. LOL... will need a doctor for my back and shoulders if I keep toting him in my arms until he's 12 weeks old when we go out.

Hi Sierra

Nice to see you back, wondered where you had got to. Sorry you haven't been feeling to great lately. What breed is Kai, sounds adorable. Know what you mean about them being too heavy, when I got my bitch I could carry her no problem until she was 14 weeks old, dog was a totally different story I was struggling and he was only 9 weeks, he's still a big bugger ;-)

Kai is another GSP. He's absolutely adorable, but quite the chunk. I'm off to go check out some of the bags. Can't imagine carrying him around for the next six weeks. As I have said before vaccinations are different here than in the US; I used to start vaccinations at five or six weeks and they were sufficiently innoculated to attend puppy classes by the time they were eight to ten weeks old.

Why do you need to carry your puppy around for 6 weeks? My pups are out and about a week after their first jab. Many vets now hold pre innoculation parties for pups so may be worth looking for one and more and more dog clubs are starting to hold pre-innoculation parties too.

Bec, why bother asking why? It should be enough that i asked for information, not a lecture. The whole post would have sounded much less condescending had you not used the first question and simply given the advice and information.

Just so that I satisfy your curiousity, it is because Jon and I enjoy long walks with the dogs and even going to areas where other dogs haven't been, Kai does get tired and can't keep up. Suffice it to say my veternarian also advised no outside contact with strange dogs prior to twelve weeks. I trust that satisfies your question.

puppy parties, etc are all well and good, but I carried mine around for several weeks till after the second shots because I wanted her exposed to all kinds of people and situations and it's not worth the risk of accidentally exposing her to parvo!

We took her to the town centre, to the train station - I don't feel I should need to wait till she's 13 weeks and miss out on a month or so of experiences when she's young enough to be open to them.

ALL VETS that I know of advise STRONGLY no association with unknown dogs or in areas that unkown dogs may have been until a week at least after the second shots. A vet arranged puppy party is safe, socialising with friends dogs who you know are innoculated is fine. Anything else is taking a risk I'm not prepared to take.

Wendy

Exactly, Wendy! Add to the equation that a good deal of imprinting is done before the puppy reaches sixteen weeks of age and it's easy to see why we would want to expose the puppy to sights, sounds, smells without the risk of diseases that their immunities have not been built up against.

Someone once asked me what the difference was in the US and UK types of vaccination schedules. The following is a recommended schedule by one of the US veternarian publications:

5 Weeks Parvovirus
6 Weeks Combination vaccine (adenovirus-1 or adenovirus-2, distemper, parainfluenza, parvovirus) without leptospirosis; coronavirus
9 Weeks Combination vaccine (adenovirus-1 or adenovirus-2, distemper, parainfluenza, parvovirus) without leptospirosis; coronavirus
12 Weeks Combination vaccine, including leptospirosis; coronavirus
15 Weeks Combination vaccine, including leptospirosis; coronavirus
16 Weeks or Six Months (dependent upon veternarian) Rabies

Intra-Trac II is recommended for those who show, field trial or board their dogs and is given at six month intervals (on the same schedule as here in the UK).

A very interesting article concerning this (as well as being a good website) can be found at [link http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1646&articleid=950]Smith and Foster[/link].

Some breeders, myself included, would vary from this schedule in that we would give the coronavirus on an alternative week from the parvovirus (i.e., coronavirus at 7, 10, 12 and 14 weeks) since in many parts of the States it is legal for vaccinations to be sold for use outside of veternarians. In addition, our puppies are put on heartworm preventatives.

In any event, I want a very well-socialized, 'bomb-proof' puppy and Kai will be going with us to a lot of different places. We got Mara at seven months and are still going through the process of convincing her that strange things will not harm her (she came from Cornwall and while she had run in the fields and on the beaches, there were not the trains, buses, hub-bub of large cities). Kai loves car rides and will soon have his first trip on a train and bus, just so that he is exposed to new experiences. I believe that stimulation at an early age is paramount for a dog to reach their fullest potential. Call me a crazed person!

Actually I'm glad we don't have to worry about heartworm over here!

And I would never call you a crazed person at all:)
Wendy

I sent a puppy to Australia at 14 weeks where she then had to do a month in Quarantine. so I carried her everywhere with me in a Holdall from 6 weeks, it was murder on the shoulders, but the effort was worth it, as she came straight out of quarantine on the Monday, and won Best Baby Puppy in show on the saturday! Do they still do Duffle Bags? I would imagine that one of those with the drwstring top would carry a pup upright.

You could try www.pets-pad.co.uk. I have an advert in front of me which shows two variations on back-pack type carriers, but whether they'll cope with a lab,I'm not sure.

Sierra - I just heard back from my breeder friend who has one. It was purchased for her by a friend who can't remember where she bought it, however, she was able to tell me it is made by is made by the aniMate co. They are in West Yorkshire.

Hope this helps.

Wendy

Hi

I'm sure it was from country mun.

There is a company in USA www.kangarookorner.com that make baby slings - but also have a puppy sling section on there web site. This could be what you are looking for.

Welcome to the forum Pepito :-) Leigh