February 27, 2007
Hi, I know you have been waiting to hear. Wessa came into season this morning. Likely a breeding will take place in about fourteen days. So rough guess, expect to hear about puppies born sometime in mid May. Yesterday, I had Max out for a Search and Rescue training. The fellow was hiding near the top of a hill. The direct route to get there was through some thick, very, very thick brush. Max started to go, disappearing from my sight. I'm thinking, now what am I going to do? There is no way I am going to get down on my hands and knees and crawl for half a mile. Max returned. I explained the problem. Then he took me another way, along an old, but cleared, road and then on up the hill to where the person was hiding. What an ideal dog! Wessa meanwhile is making progress in agility. We've been taking an Internet Agility course for most of the winter. Yes, really. Knowing enough about dog handling to know that when you take a course, the instructor is constantly telling you (me) "Watch your hands", "Not that way, this way." At any rate, with none of that negativity, I am enjoying this immensely, only, I do wonder just how poorly I really might be doing with no one to tell me otherwise. Wessa can now run through a tunnel, out the other side, and then depending on where I am standing and uh-hum, how I am positioning my hands, she can go from there to turn around towards me into or over another obstacle or to turn around away from me into or over another obstacle. I can tell you are impressed. Impressed or not, I have been quite challenged. Wessa, for her own part, is a natural. I am so excited about these puppies. My biggest challenge will be to not keep one myself. Someday I will though, another year perhaps. These dogs both have that extra special ingredient which makes them extra loveable.
Best Regards,
Elizabeth
memories of previous pups and green grass, when the A Litter was four weeks old, June 2004
four weeks old
