It’s the Little Things that Get Ya….
I went to the rear of the car, raised the tailgate to release the dogs. Shakespeare was at the front of his crate, of course. From Laevatein’s crate I heard a soft, steady, thump, thump,…
A note on photos….
Yes, Laev is a Doberman. She is modeling her natural ears and tail and dewclaws. That’s what Dobes look like before being cropped and docked. It is jail time to crop and dock in Denmark,…
Puppy’s First Day
I’m almost entirely out of the apartment, but not quite, and I clearly cannot leave her in a house where workmen might be coming through, so Laev had to go nearly everywhere with me as…
She’s here!
May I present Ascomannis Laevatein, age 64 days on her arrival. I had to go to three different buildings to retrieve her — there was some confusion at the airport — but when I finally…
The Night Before
She’s almost here! Lisa and Jes approved my own name choice, so when all the corrective paperwork is finished, she’ll be Ascomannis Laevatein. The puppy testing was done this week to determine which puppy went…
poor husband
Yesterday afternoon, my husband asked me, “So, what will this new puppy be? Is it going to be a Schutzhund dog? Or is it going to do obedience? Or agility?” “Yes,” I said. “Schutzhund, obedience,…
AWDF national trial
Yesterday afternoon my doggie friend Linda called me with a last-minute idea that we would drive down two states together to see the American Working Dog Federation nationals. So we left this morning at 3:30…
what’s in a name?
Oops. The breeder registered my puppy for me. This isn’t an inherently bad thing. In fact, it was probably pretty responsible of her. But I had submitted several names I was considering, and she changed…
More new pics!
The breeder just sent me the following email: I just took some more photos for the puppies, at 5 weeks old. It was after I gave them some socks and a stuffed toy cover to…
New Pics!
Just got an email from the breeder…. Check out the new puppy pictures!