Here are photos of the puppies just hours old. If you're wondering about the names, I give them temporary names to keep them straight until their new owner decides their permanent name. Since Annabelle is from the deep south of the Carolinas and is a true southern belle, the names are of the south. Names that are among the most definitively southern are those that combine two names into a single first name. The “double name” that is so commonly associated with the South comes from the southern tradition of naming children after ancestors. Creating a first name out of two names enables parents to use a single name as a tribute to both sides of the family.

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Kitzy Jo is a blue brindle split faced female with color on half the face and both ears. She has a lovely white collar on her neck, four white feet, a white tip to the tail and a white blaze on the chest with a couple of colored spots on her head. She is named asfter Annabelle's sister Kitzy, who is an exquisite blue brindle bitch that finished easily with three majors - hopefully a name with good karma.
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Poetry Sue is a solid red brindle bitch with very dark brindling. She is Irish marked with a wide white blaze on the head and chest, a couple of spots on the back of the neck, four white feet and a white tip to the tail. She looks very much like, and is named for her grandmother Poetry, who ironically went missing five years ago to the day on their birthday, September 29th. We were extrodinarily fortunate to get her back safely, so the name must be lucky.
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