Puppy Stuff

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Welcome to the Pomeranian Club of Canada Puppy Puppy Stuff page. My name is Christine Surtees, and you may be wondering why I decided to work on this area of the PCOC web site given all the other areas there were to chose from. Well that’s easy! I’m just plain crazy about Pomeranian puppies so I figured anything that had to do with puppies would have to be lots of fun.

Let me tell you a bit about myself first and how I got into Poms, then I’ll tell you what you can expect to find on this page. Whether you are into show Poms or pet Poms, I know you will enjoy this page once its finished - which may take a while, incidentally, since I’m depending on other PCOC members to help me with material, etc.

First, a Bit About Me . . .

My first Pomeranian was an impulse-buy from a pet store. I know, exactly the wrong place to buy a puppy, and I’d never do that now . . . but this little guy was destined to be mine.

  It was Mother’s Day 1990 and my husband wanted to go to a local pet store to buy some replacement perches for our small, destructive parrot. While he was absorbed in the task of picking exactly the right perch, I wandered to the back of the store where they had glass cages of kittens, puppies and birds. Sitting all alone in a cage was a little orange dog with a black face. Something prompted me to ask the sales person standing nearby if I could see the dog and she fetched him from the cage and put him into my arms. He buried his head into my neck.  “What took you so long, I thought you would never come.” My husband, Larry, with perch in hand, found us still together in deep communication.  “Have we purchased a dog?” he asked.  My only response was “His name is Mishka”.  Now we had discussed that sometime in the unforeseeable future we would like a dog to add to the cats and bird but had a BIG dog in mind.  An Afghan or Irish Wolfhound.  We knew nothing about Pomeranians. We learned more than we could have ever thought possible from this little puppy; he literally changed our lives.

Mishka at 2 years of age.  

Mishka and best friend Lady ready for walkies when the temperature with wind chill was -45ºF

Both Mishka and Lady have gone ahead to wait for us at the Rainbow Bridge taking a piece of our hearts with them.  However, these two American puppy mill dogs, purchased from pet stores taught us a whole lot of do’s and don’ts and sparked an undying love and concern for this breed.

We moved to Ottawa in the summer of 1991 and started going to see the Pomeranians at local dog shows. We belong to The Canadian Kennel Club, Pomeranian Club of Ontario, Pomeranian Club of Canada and the Ottawa Kennel Club. We have met lots of dog-crazy people, made new friends and eventually started showing, then breeding in a small way.    We now have a very small hobby kennel (POMKEES, that name is another story) and I indulge my love for puppies by whelping and raising the puppies for my friend Marie of Flashingstar Kennels as well as a litter of my own. We keep the pups until they are 6 months old before we let them go to new homes so I usually have at least two pups under 6 months of age playing havoc with the rest of our crew of Pomeranians, 5 cats, a Keeshond and a budgie.

What You Can Expect to Find on this Page as it Develops . . .

This Page of Our Website is still

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

New material will be added as it becomes available

The coordinator for this  page of our website is Christine Surtees, a member of the Pomeranian Club of Canada. If you have any suggestions about what you would like to see on this page, you may contact Christine as follows:

Christine Surtees, Pomkees

11 Greystone Drive

Almonte, Ontario

K0A 1A0, Canada

Telephone: (613) 256-2019

E-mail: pomkees@comnet.ca

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 Whelping, Temperature and Puppy Growth Charts (PCOC fund-raiser)

Contributed by Bev Carter, Damascusroad

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