We’re hiring!

Well. Technically we are no longer hiring. We’ve hired!

Featuring for the very first time on vanplusfour are AJ [on the left] and Cai [on the right. obviously] (oh, and Mr B. in the middle) The cuteness!!!

We saw the twins, some of their siblings and their gorgeous mum Ellie for the very first time here when they were just 1 week old (I’m hoping the one at the back is not one of our boys as its sense of direction is terrible???!!!)

The story goes: Ellie fell in love with one of the locals and they made 9 beautiful illegitimate (but full) border collie babies. I’m a bit of a sucker for a romantic story and almost as soon as we saw them we knew that we wanted their journey to take them from Builth Wells in Mid Wales to the Northern borders to join us on our travels.

Look how tiny they were!

Fast forward a week and at 2 weeks old their little eyes opened!

Mary [Ellie’s mum]’s been brilliant and has so far sent us a picture every Sunday. In week 3 we could really see a big change in them and it was goodbye little guinea pigs & helllooooooooooo gorgeous collies:

And then – finally!!! – Saturday just gone (when they were 4 weeks old) we travelled down to Builth Wells to meet our little boys for the very first time ^_^
twin border boys

I’ve gotta admit that I’m a little anxious. It’s been 9 years since I’ve had a proper pup in my life (Maisie, who is 7 now, was 8 months old when we rescued her). I am not particularly looking forward to the whole toilet training drama. I wonder how Maisie will cope with so much boisterousness around her. The twins will be a proper hand full no doubt and looking at their little innocent faces I hope we will live up to the challenge and give them the life they unreservedly deserve. I hope they’ll love us like we’ll love them and that they will turn out to be proper little troopers. Just like Henry x

But I can’t wait to the get camera on them!!! We are picking them up on the 8th of September and excitement is definitely in the air!

Tags: collies; Border Collies; puppies; Wales; dogs; pets;, Welsh Border Collies

12 thoughts on “We’re hiring!”

Dina on 12/08/2013 at 20:44 said:

Yeeees, you are!! Please call on me if you need a dogsitter. Please. :-) ♥♥♥

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- MrsBoardwell on 13/08/2013 at 07:18 said:
  
  Ha! I might just do that Dina, teenage twin boys sounds like a semi-nightmare to me ^_^
  
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  - Dina on 13/08/2013 at 07:20 said:
    
    :-)
surfnslide on 12/08/2013 at 20:48 said:

Oh dear, I’ve gone all puppy broody again. They are gorgeous and I’m looking forward to watching them grow up through the blog :)

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- MrsBoardwell on 13/08/2013 at 07:17 said:
  
  yes Andy, very much looks like we’re gonna go puppy crazy for a while. Brace yourselves ^_^
  
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Jeff Katzer on 13/08/2013 at 15:53 said:

I can feel the excitement in the air. You are also “buzzing” like an expectant parent (just as I was a week ago). As soon as I saw them I went directly into my Ace Ventura Pet Detective voice and said, “oh jo woo jo bo bo”, “come to me my jungle friends”.

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- MrsBoardwell on 13/08/2013 at 20:47 said:
  
  thanks for expectantly buzzing Mr K :)
  
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Nachthawk on 15/08/2013 at 21:55 said:

it will be a wonderful experience… they are gorgeous… you will love them to bits – no doubt… :-)

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- MrsBoardwell on 21/08/2013 at 19:08 said:
  
  Thanks! How’s the running going? As you can tell from the non-happening running shots in the monthly round-ups I have given up. For now anyway… ;)
  
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  - Nachthawk on 23/08/2013 at 19:43 said:
    
    running is going great… however work is taking up a good bit of my time at the moment… and you excuse was ??? :-)
    don’t give up with the running… it is good for you…
Allison on 30/09/2013 at 17:22 said:

I love it! Love it! Love it!

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- MrsBoardwell on 01/10/2013 at 20:01 said:
  
  ….and we love you too cousin AJ ;) x
  
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