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		<title>Crackers and Dodger have new babies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crackers and Dodger have new babies! Delivered by C Section November 1st, 2008.
There are four girls and four boys. To girls are brindles, one apricot male, and the rest of the babies are fawn.
If you are interested in one of these beautiful babies, please call (717) 349-7927.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crackers and Dodger have new babies! Delivered by C Section November 1st, 2008.</p>
<p>There are four girls and four boys. To girls are brindles, one apricot male, and the rest of the babies are fawn.</p>
<p><strong><em>If you are interested in one of these beautiful babies, please call (717) 349-7927.</em></strong></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Consolas;"><a href="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/img_0198_2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-81" title="img_0198_2" src="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/img_0198_2.jpg" alt="New Babies" width="500" height="311" /></a></span><a href="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/img_0198_2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-93" title="img_1139" src="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/img_1139.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-94" title="img_1142_2" src="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/img_1142_2.jpg" alt="" width="499" height="664" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-95" title="img_1150" src="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/img_1150.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">More photos of the beutiful babies can be found in the gallery by visiting this link:</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><a href="http://nancyspiller.com/wpg2?g2_page=235">More Photos!!!</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Puppy Announcement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audley Farms Candy Striper (Vivvy) and Audley &#38; Noblehaven&#8217;s Bess of Both Worlds (Bessie) have had puppies! Bessie (A CH Biss Southport Sherman Puppy) has 3 fawn babies, 2 girls and a boy. The Sire is AM. CH. INTERNATL CH Audley Farms Family Jules.
Vivvy has 1 female fawn sired by Noblehaven&#8217;s Victor (Noblehaven&#8217;s Smooth Operator [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Audley Farms Candy Striper (Vivvy) and Audley &amp; Noblehaven&#8217;s Bess of Both Worlds (Bessie) have had puppies! Bessie (A CH Biss Southport Sherman Puppy) has 3 fawn babies, 2 girls and a boy. The Sire is AM. CH. INTERNATL CH Audley Farms Family Jules.</p>
<p>Vivvy has 1 female fawn sired by Noblehaven&#8217;s Victor (Noblehaven&#8217;s Smooth Operator CGC,TDI). They were born September 27th * 28th. Please email for more information and pictures.</p>
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<p>UPDATE: Babies at 5 weeks old. See pics below:</p>
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		<title>More babies expected in November!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crackers and Dodger will be having puppies the first days of November. There is a possibility of all colors from this breeding. I feel it will be an exceptional combination!


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Crackers and Dodger will be having puppies the first days of November. There is a possibility of all colors from this breeding. I feel it will be an exceptional combination!</p>
<p><a href="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_3250_21.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-74" title="img_3250_21" src="http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_3250_21.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="513" /></a></p>
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		<title>Girlie sets new record! First Mastiff bitch to win Best of Breed at the Mastiff specialty show at Bucks May 6th!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 04:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Bucks County KC Best of Breed, with an entry of 114 mastiffs, went to the gorgeous bitch CH Audley Farms To The Nines. Congratulations to Girlie&#8217;s onwer/breeder Nancy Spiller on this very prestigious win! (JULES SISTER) JULES HIMSELF MADE IT DOWN TO THE LAST 3 DOGS!
&#8220;Girlie&#8221; is sired by CH Heart N Soul&#8217;s Big Palooka [...]]]></description>
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<p>Bucks County KC Best of Breed, with an entry of 114 mastiffs, went to the gorgeous bitch CH Audley Farms To The Nines. Congratulations to Girlie&#8217;s onwer/breeder Nancy Spiller on this very prestigious win! (JULES SISTER) JULES HIMSELF MADE IT DOWN TO THE LAST 3 DOGS!</p>
<p>&#8220;Girlie&#8221; is sired by CH Heart N Soul&#8217;s Big Palooka and out of the beautiful multiple Breed winning and MCOA National Specialty AOM breeder/owner/handled CH Genie&#8217;s Wish of Audley. Girlie is the first mastiff bitch to ever win this challenge trophy in the history of bucks!!</p>
<p>The Audley kids also won the Broodbitch class with Roxanne/jules puppies Violet(owned by John and Susan Horn) and Vivian won the Bred By Exhibitor class and Violet won the12-18 Bitch class. (BOTH JULES PUPPIES) Jules and sister Girlie took the brace class as well</p>
<p>Bucks County KC &#038; Trenton KC Winners Bitch for back-to-back 5 point majors went to Dujon&#8217;s Fancy Pants ( Crystal ) from the 9-12 puppy class!!!! Crystal is proudly owned by Joe and Lynn McAuley.</p>
<p>Crystal is sired by Nancy Spiller&#8217;s CH Audley Farms Family Jules out of Dawn Dujon&#8217;s CH Dujon&#8217;s Uptown Girl Jolene who also happens to be sired by another one of Nancy&#8217;s boys CH Audley Farms One Night Stan. Jolene is a multiple Breed and Group placement winner who also won an AOM at Westminster. </p>
<p>Congratulations! Great wins for such a young girl! </p>
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		<title>Jules wins group placement!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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It was a hot day and Jules doesn&#8217;t show at his best in the heat. We were very pleased when he not only took Best of Breed, but went on to take a Group 4 in spite of the weather.
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<p>It was a hot day and Jules doesn&#8217;t show at his best in the heat. We were very pleased when he not only took Best of Breed, but went on to take a Group 4 in spite of the weather.</p>
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		<title>Jules wins his second group 1 at Perkiomen Valley Kennel Club Show August 6th!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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CH. Audley Farms Family Jules wins his second group 1! Mother and son are still happily in shock. I have waited 15 years for this and now have done it twice! I will have to go buy the big guy a bigger collar and mom better get a bigger hat. Many, many thanks to our [...]]]></description>
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<p>CH. Audley Farms Family Jules wins his second group 1! Mother and son are still happily in shock. I have waited 15 years for this and now have done it twice! I will have to go buy the big guy a bigger collar and mom better get a bigger hat. Many, many thanks to our Judge Mrs. Patricia Hess. His first group win made him number 9 mastiff in the country so I am anxious to see where he will be after his second win! <img src='http://nancyspiller.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>Blairs Mills Woman Shares Home And Heart With 20 Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nancy Spiller’s “children” aren’t unlike many other people’s kids: the sisters sometimes have disagreements, it’s a chore to get everyone ready for a trip to the store to buy milk, and they can make a real mess of the house.
Nancy’s “children,” however, are quite unique in some very obvious respects: These “kids” weigh about 200 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nancy Spiller’s “children” aren’t unlike many other people’s kids: the sisters sometimes have disagreements, it’s a chore to get everyone ready for a trip to the store to buy milk, and they can make a real mess of the house.</p>
<p>Nancy’s “children,” however, are quite unique in some very obvious respects: These “kids” weigh about 200 pounds and have four legs and a tail.</p>
<p>Nancy’s family currently consist of 17 Mastiffs, and if that’s not enough puppy love to go around,also &#8220;Dottie&#8221; “a kind of Dalmatian”. Plus, sleeping upstairs on a recent Tuesday morning, after having about 40ccs of milk replacement formula, was a baby Mastiff that had been delivered by cesarean just ten days before.</p>
<p><img src='http://nancyspiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/cover.jpg' alt='A typical evening at Spillers Mastiffs of Audley Farms' /></p>
<p>“They’re just pets.” Nancy says of the conglomeration, adding, “I feed them, and they feed me. I sell the Mastiffs to live.”</p>
<p>The Blairs Mills RR1 resident [who suspects she’s known locally as “the nut with the dogs”] sells the Mastiffs bred and born at her farm all over the country, advertising litters in Dog World magazine. Puppies fetch $1,800 to $2,500 apiece and are products of the best dogs in the country, winner of Best of Breed at the famous Westminster show, Nancy says.</p>
<p>Spillers’ puppies are delivered by C-section at Companion Animal vet services in Shippensburg, which Nancy praises highly for it’s staff’s professionalism and knowledge of Mastiffs.</p>
<p>Ninety-nine percent of Mastiffs are delivered surgically, because the big dogs “aren’t very good at labor.” “All they do is pant,” Nancy explains.</p>
<p>Once the puppies are born, Nancy takes over, with bottle feedings every two hours. The approximately 11/2 pound newborns gain about six ounces a day, consuming about 40 ccs of formula [made with boiled or bottled water] every two hours around the clock. Mother dogs generally have inadequate or poor quality milk supplies, Nancy explains.</p>
<p>To supplement the puppies’ diet, Nancy adds some infant rice cereal to the formula, which also satisfies the puppies better than a strictly liquid diet, a technique many mothers of human infants have utilized.</p>
<p>Large litters mean no sleep for the surrogate mother, who’s been known to lose track of time when she’s busy with babies to the extent that she’s had to call a friend to ask what day of the week it is.</p>
<p>All the attention lavished on the puppies, of course, creates a mutually affectionate bond between Nancy and her canine companions, and parting with them after eight or nine weeks is never easy.</p>
<p>“I cry, every one,” she admits. “I never get used to it. I’d like to keep them all if I could.”</p>
<p>Of course, at Spiller’s home, there’s always someone ready and willing to shower her with love and attention at such times, helping her to recover from the loss. And there isn’t much time to sit around and grieve. Every day, there is breakfast to get – about 40 pounds of dry dog food, along with some venison, calves liver, or chicken, or maybe some eggs, yogurt or cottage cheese on occasion.</p>
<p>The younger and pregnant dogs eat three times a day, as much as they want, while those that are older or neutered chow down just twice. And, Nancy admits, there are a lot of treats between meals for the “spoiled” companions that follow her everywhere.</p>
<p>Nancy describes the immense animals as even-tempered. “They’re couch potatoes at heart,” she smiles. “They go from being puppies to being unconscious in about a year and a half.”</p>
<p>Sometimes, of course, there are minor disagreements among the animals, particularly between sisters. “My boys are pretty good, though,” she adds. </p>
<p>Ironically, Mastiffs were bred for over 2,000 years in England as watch dogs and are still known as excellent guard dogs. History portrays the massive animals as warriors that were once pitted against the Roman legions and matched against bears, bulls, lions, tigers, and even gladiators.</p>
<p>The animals roaming Audley Farm near Blairs Mills show no signs of their ancestors’ aggressiveness, though, Actually, the big dogs seem to relish the chance to playfully nudge a visitor, enticing him or her into a game of bat-the-milk-jug or tug of war.</p>
<p>Although Nancy admits that going out to the store with her companions in tow is usually an ordeal, she always takes two or three of her dogs along, and provides a mounting block for them to use in getting onto the back of her truck in order to avoid injuring their backs and legs.</p>
<p>The idea for going away for more than a day is out of the question for Nancy, since finding someone to care for her brood [which also includes a variety of farm animals and 16 cats] is an improbability.</p>
<p>Besides, she’s not really interested in getting away. She’s just as happy to spend her days with her house full of four legged companions, enjoying their varying personalities and nonstop entertainment they provide.</p>
<p>“I think everybody should have at least ten dogs,” she says, convincingly, “They love you no matter what.”</p>
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		<title>Jules takes a Group 1 at Bryn Mawr Kennel Club June 18th under Mrs. Hess!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Audley had a very exiting weekend for the first set of shows after being housebound with puppies. Jules took Best of Breed 2 Days and his littermate sister, Girlie, took Best of Breed the 3rd Day!
Jules went on to win a Group 1, which is about as good as it gets in the show world. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Audley had a very exiting weekend for the first set of shows after being housebound with puppies. Jules took Best of Breed 2 Days and his littermate sister, Girlie, took Best of Breed the 3rd Day!</p>
<p>Jules went on to win a Group 1, which is about as good as it gets in the show world. He was owner / breeder handled which is also amazing as I am not the best handler.</p>
<p>Cherry also did well taking Winners Bitch / Best of Winners 2 out of 3 days for a 3 point majors both days(and got her championship ! )All in all, we come home very happy and mom needs a bigger hat! </p>
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