And an adventure is off

If you'll check the blog post before this, you'll know the reason for my posting. Penny went into unexpected heat. I was going to hold her back from breeding to show her more but it is so close into the show season, and she has already began dropping a LOT of coat. So it would be useless to show her in the upcoming season.

She is old enough to breed.

Anyway that above was kind of boring. In about 20 minutes, we're leaving to drop my little girl off at Shelby's breeder. She'll be there for a few days. I am breeding her to Shelby's father. (Shelby was incredibly sickened when I told her this... for that would make her rival, Penny - in a certain sense - her stepmother.)

Like I said, I do NOT jump into breeding for anything! I have never bred a litter, even though growing up my mother raised little dogs, and I was always very involved. I have been planning a breeding with Shelby since 2007, I'm going to breed her after the May field trial. I had been planning to breed Penny in May as well, but since this oppritunity has come up, I plan to take advantage of it. I've had about 5 years experience with the breed, and have never had a litter before. I've been showing them since 2006. I have the standard memorized practically, and I know everything good I want in my breeding program.
I breed for: Health, Temperment, Conformation (show quality), Instinct, and Versatility; the latter to to help preserve the working dogs this breed is.

After this litter, we will work on finishing Penny's UKC Championship, she's 75/100 finished with it, so it should only take about two shows to finish it! And I am still taking her to the early March AKC shows.

I will have to post pictures of the sire later. He has lines from an amazing show breeder that I know. These will be some amazing puppies out of this breeding. All longhairs. There could be reds, red brindles, black and tans, and black and tan brindles.

I will miss my little girl for the few days she's gone, though. But I can rest easy knowing she's in the hands of a responsible breeder.

I love you Penny.

Everyone, stayed tuned for more info...