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It is obvious now that I suffer from some kind of mental problem. Otherwise doing this never would have crossed my mind. I mean I have two perfectly lovely dogs.... well okay one perfectly lovely dog and one perfect hellion of a puppy but still!
A few weeks ago after finishing her latest 4H project my oldest daughter announced that she wanted to get involved with the junior handling program
that the AKC has.
So I started looking into it. We got her a junior handlers ID number and I found a local kennel club and will hopefully start her in handling classes in the fall. Seeing as how we are in Phoenix lots of things sort of shut down over the summer due to the heat.
So Coraline is amazing but she is not a show puppy. She comes from performance lines and we will likely start doing lure coursing with her - because it looks like a lot of fun!
So my husband is like "Well lets get a show quality Borzoi" - like they somehow super easy to just ...acquire. However I found a breeder in New Mexico that had one boy left from a litter she had four months ago. He was being offered to a show/performance/companion home and is absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous.
Then came two weeks of kind of brutal checks! we had an initial phone interview, then she had phone interviews with two references and Amelia's breeder. Then we had a home check and a final phone interview and today
we were finally approved!
My husband will be driving to New Mexico on Saturday to pick him up. We have not decided on a name yet as I am too busy questioning where my sanity ran off to.
Two sight hound puppies? at once? Well at least I still have my sense of humour!
A few weeks ago after finishing her latest 4H project my oldest daughter announced that she wanted to get involved with the junior handling program
that the AKC has.
So I started looking into it. We got her a junior handlers ID number and I found a local kennel club and will hopefully start her in handling classes in the fall. Seeing as how we are in Phoenix lots of things sort of shut down over the summer due to the heat.
So Coraline is amazing but she is not a show puppy. She comes from performance lines and we will likely start doing lure coursing with her - because it looks like a lot of fun!
So my husband is like "Well lets get a show quality Borzoi" - like they somehow super easy to just ...acquire. However I found a breeder in New Mexico that had one boy left from a litter she had four months ago. He was being offered to a show/performance/companion home and is absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous.
Then came two weeks of kind of brutal checks! we had an initial phone interview, then she had phone interviews with two references and Amelia's breeder. Then we had a home check and a final phone interview and today
we were finally approved!
My husband will be driving to New Mexico on Saturday to pick him up. We have not decided on a name yet as I am too busy questioning where my sanity ran off to.
Two sight hound puppies? at once? Well at least I still have my sense of humour!