Horsetooth Whippets: Welcome to the World, You Little Gangsters!

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Welcome to the World, You Little Gangsters!

We're excited to welcome new little gangsters (Litter Theme: Notorious American Gangsters)!

Papa Baxter & Mama Lyla are so proud!

Horsetooth Whippets welcomed 5 new members to the pack starting at 5:10am on 03/08/2024. Here are their details, and a few early pics!

"Bonnie Parker" (of Bonnie & Clyde fame):
Arrived at 5:10am
Birth Weight: 321grams
Coloring: Irish-marked (think "tuxedo") Black Female with a beautiful, narrow blaze and white chin, chest & belly.

"Opal Long" (of the Dillinger Gang - aka "Mack Truck"):
Arrived at 5:18am
Birth Weight: 305grams
Coloring: Parti-marked, split-faced Blue Female with a huge mantle over her left shoulder, white rear left leg and hip, and funny blue spot on the left side of her tail.

"Pretty Boy Floyd":
Arrived at 6:00am
Birth Weight: 327grams
Coloring: Irish-marked Blue Male with very wide blaze, and a 'yamaka' on his head!

"Baby Face Nelson":
Arrived at 6:30am
Birth Weight: 305grams
Coloring: Parti-marked Blue Male with "cow like" patches and a split face, and another yamaka.

"Kid Twist":
Arrived at 6:51am
Birth Weight: 365grams
Coloring: Irish-marked Blue male with big, white mantle and wide face blaze.

Mama Lyla is doing great (though she's not a fan of 'poop detail' and these guys ARE poopy!) and all pups are doing what happy, healthy pups do - eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping and...

Pretty Boy Floyd (left) and Opal (right) and Mama Lyla.

Opal, Floyd, and a bit of Bonnie.

From back to front: Baby Face Nelson (back), Opal, Bonnie, and Floyd at the milkbar...waiting for Kid Twist to be born. (Lyla says, "Excuse my mess - having puppies is messy business!)