Shelley
Well-Known Member
Well I will cross my fingers for you and hope that your "heart" puppies turn out to be the very bestThanks Shelley!! I am very, very happy with this litter!!! Especially for my first one!!!!Ohmygosh, they have turned from little rats into real PUPPIES!
Looks like a very uniform litter, Kathryn! Congratulations!
Just wondering, how can you pick if you can't see them move yet? Is it different
for "short legged" dogs vs. the long legged ones?
Shelley
Picking wise, well, I just go with my gut! It's worked well soo far!!
But no seriously, from what I know about cardis as puppies (which isn't very much), but most go by conformation first....and hope the movement is there....and I believe that is because they are short legged, it's hard to see the movement on these guys until they have grown more (4 to 5 months, from what I've seen). The tricky part with these guys is their fronts. That is the tough one to tell. You can tell a bit (same as rears) if they are standing wide or narrow, but because they are a dwarf breed, you can get some horrible fronts which don't show up until they are almost in the show ring....feet turned out too much (that sometimes doesn't show up until they are 2), knuckling over...that kind of thing. But even though I've got my heart set on these 2...they may not be the one(s) that I end up keeping....I just really like them soo far....
~kathryn
in the litter!
Shelley
