11 and Fabulous!
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Chris
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Can you believe how long we've all been together here? I remember when you'd just gotten Checkers from Connie. What wonderful memories!!
Ann
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I know! Hard to believe it will be 10 years soon!
Cara Sandler
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She is definitely a beauty!
tofu pup
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I remember when her litter was born... her mother (Gemmy) was so big at the end of her pregnancy that she couldn't lay on her belly or side: she would just lay on her back, with all four legs splayed out! That's how she nursed her puppies, too; she'd lay on her back and they'd sort of crawl all over her belly and latch on.
I think this was the last litter we whelped upstairs, before Mom and Dad finished the work on the house and built the new "dog room". I remember that Gemmy went into labor in the late evening, so we went all through the night. It was not a brief labor.
It was a nice, consistent litter. We had a boy and a girl who were very correct. I liked the boy better, because he had nicer head detail, but Mom preferred the girl, because she had a very sweet face. The boy is now Am/Can Ch. Rabbit Run Maritime ("Robbie"), and he has proved to be a useful sire for getting nice, moderate dogs.
And the girl, of course, is Checkers! She was always a very special little dog. Ann, I am so very glad that Checkers came home to you. Thank you for letting her shine!
I think this was the last litter we whelped upstairs, before Mom and Dad finished the work on the house and built the new "dog room". I remember that Gemmy went into labor in the late evening, so we went all through the night. It was not a brief labor.
It was a nice, consistent litter. We had a boy and a girl who were very correct. I liked the boy better, because he had nicer head detail, but Mom preferred the girl, because she had a very sweet face. The boy is now Am/Can Ch. Rabbit Run Maritime ("Robbie"), and he has proved to be a useful sire for getting nice, moderate dogs.
And the girl, of course, is Checkers! She was always a very special little dog. Ann, I am so very glad that Checkers came home to you. Thank you for letting her shine!
Ann
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Thanks, Megan. I'm very glad too! I fell in love with Checkers in the whelping box when we came to see Barkley before we brought him home, even though she didn't come to me for another two years. She will always be my first and best show dog and my special love.