Amy ~ Irish Wolfhound

Amy at a Dog Show dressed as a camel for Halloween 

Today i will be talking to you about Amy, I touched briefly on her in my last post. But I think each of the dogs deserve their own post for me to brag about them a little bit :)
This is Amy, she is a 6 year old Irish Wolfhound. Her birthday is July 28th, 2006.
Amy has had two litters of puppies. The one litter she had four puppies, and we had kept two of them. Gemini and Saturn. The other two went to new homes. One went all the way to B.C. and the other went to Calgary.

This is Gemini.

This is Saturn.

The two that we kept, Saturn ended up passing away at 6 months because he had either gotten into something and it ripped a hole in his intestine. Or it was a birth defect. We are unsure. He was a very sweet puppy.
The other one, Gemini. We had her up until July, and then we decided that we weren't going to breed her, and she had to go to a new home. So she did, and she now lives in a family with another dog and three little boys. and is spoiled rotten!
Amy was a GREAT mother to these guys. Her second litter consisted of three puppies, and the father to this litter was our very own Gintaro!  These three pups were very very fat, since there was only three of them. One went to New Brunswick, and the other one went to a small town in northern Saskatchewan. We kept the one and only boy because he had a heart murmer. Zeus was his name, he was supposed to go to New Brunswick but we didnt want to send him there because we were unsure of his heart and how long he would live.
Zeus lived to be 5 months old, and at about midnight on June 19th, 2011. when everyone was getting to sleep. We heard yelping and whimpering and banging around in the kitchen where the dogs were kenneled at the time.. I did not know what was going on, i was in my room and had a friend over at the time. About 10 minutes later my mom came downstairs and said she wanted to talk to me alone. I came out of my room and shut the door, and my mom told me that Zeus had a heart attack, and she needed my help to get him out of his kennel, while my dad was digging a grave for him in the backyard.
I crawled in his kennel, and pet him for a moment, then wrapped him up in his blanket, except for his head. I pet his head a few more times then wrapped it up. I was trying my hardest not to cry, but it was the most hardest thing i have ever had to do in my entire life. Seeing my puppy, lying there, not breathing, or panting, or doing anything. Just lying there.
Me and my mom eventually got him out of his kennel, it was not easy since he was not light. i couldn't imagine lifting a full grown one. We put Zeus's body in the boarding kennel, at the time i believe there was no boarding dogs. and then my mom told me to go back to bed, and that we would bury him in the morning, and go rock picking to put rocks on his grave.
Here are a few pictures..

Zeus..roughly 4 1/2 months

Zeus.. 5 or 6 weeks old

Zeus.. 7 or 8 weeks old

Amy was a fantastic mom to these three pups too, and Gintaro was a good dad. Even though he didnt really do anything besides peek his head in every few days.

Right now Amy is getting older and older. You can definitely tell that she is an old dog. When she gets up she whines because of her old bones. We think she is getting arthritis, she gets special medication each day. Our goal with Amy, is to show her in the Veteran class at a Dog Show. So we are hoping and praying that she makes it to be seven :)
Amy still has her bursts of puppiness, and will play with the other dogs. Other than that she is a very quiet dog, unless someone pulls in the yard, or when all the dogs are howling. Actually Amy isn't quiet at all. She is shy of men tho. She loves kids, kids will love to take her leash and walk her around everywhere.

Amy and Sara racing (taken about 5 years ago)
Sara is no longer with us. 

I hope you all enjoyed reading about Amy, and check back for more posts about the dogs! :)