Skip x Cotton, the Sea Islands litter

Seven yellow puppies, three boys and four girls, born on a Thursday evening during a thunderstorm that Cotton ignored completely. It was an easy whelping, a little under five hours from first to last, and everyone was nursing within minutes. Birth weights were 14 to 18 ounces. They are named for the sea islands up and down this coast. Both parents are yellow, so every puppy is yellow. Two yellow Labradors cannot produce a black or chocolate puppy. Shades run from Cotton's pale cream to Skip's medium gold, and the ears are the best guide to where each will end up. All have black pigment. None can be affected by EIC, CNM, PRA-prcd or HNPK, and none carry dilute. At four and a half weeks they are up on their legs, eating softened food twice a day and keeping their bed clean. They moved out to the porch pen last weekend, and on Saturday we carried the basket out to the garden for their first portraits, where nobody stayed in it for long. The shallow pool comes out next week and the first trip to the creek edge will follow around seven weeks, weather and tide permitting. They go home from October 15. Two are still available.