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Posted by Karen on April 16, 2008, 11:33 am, in reply to "Re: What testing are you doing? nm"
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Do a little research yourself...
http://www.infodog.com/panels/LST-30.HTM
When the results are up, check out the Sat and Sunday show in Warwick, RI (currently only teh catalog is still posted) and check out under Shetland Sheepdogs thu 6 - 9 months puppy dog who went on to BOB and a Group 2 and the Open Sable and White dog who went on to BOB and a Group 3. Pup was cobred by my mother and sister and the open dog is owned by my mother.
Dogs are tested for hips, eyes (annually), vWD (DNA screened), I go the next step and do MDR1 (DNA) and we compete.
This past weekend my mother took a Group 2 and a Group 3 with her dogs - different days.
My sister has a dog (semiretired) who has been the top UKC Sheltie several times, he is also performance titled. He is also AKC Ch and UKC Gr CH and a total dog winner.
I took a hiatus due to my kids, husband's schedule, etc and am returning to showing. I have a 12 - 18 month old puppy dog and a 6 - 9 months puppy b###h. I am starting them UKC. My b###h has to go UKC as she is more than 50% white. My male is nice, superb movement, great angles, nice head, though on the smaller size of the standard - so many AKC judges may not look at him. I am waiting to do AKC until next year - another year to mature and fill out a bit more. It could be 3 - 4 years before he is mature. His sire is the top UKC Sheltie, Can Ch, AKC pointed with majors. My female is littermate to the 6-9 month pup mentioned above. She also seems to have the temperament to transition into my dog bite prevention program in a year or two.
I am not seeing anything on your site about what you are doing with your dogs. You are getting defensive because a question any serious breeder would willingly answer yet not stating what health testing you are doing on your dogs. Any good breeder would welcome questions regarding their dogs and willingly give answers.
Now, want to know why I am able to be online so much...
I get up an hour before my kids to and often go to bed later than them. It is amazing what can be done then...
This week I am at home with my preschooler who has to undergo three days of colon cleansing because she has an intestinal issue that may take up to six months to resolve - maybe more. I just spent the past 6 weeks trying to find the best dose of meds for her and she backed up again. The gastroenterologist said 3 - 5 pills a day, well we tried three last week and it was not enough. Ever had a colonoscopy or any other intestinal check and have to go through the clean out prior to? Now think about doing this for three days. I have done it for one clean out day and it sucks. Be four years old and doing this for a second time and the clean out has to be done for 3 days to fully evacuate any materials. She has been out of school due to it and spending a lot of time curled up on the couch cramped up... She has one more day of treatment and this is on top of several days waiting for her appt with her leaking poop around the new blockage and having to come home from preschool (when I was supposed to be doing a behavioral eval) after less than half an hour because she was in such pain. So we are home, not going out expect to take big brother to and from school. Therefore, no clients this week, no shopping, no classes... I am home changing pull ups up to every five minutes as she cannot make it to the bathroom fast enough and just wants to curl up in a corner and cry and be left alone. No, she does not want anyone with her while she poops and cries and that is killing me.
I am not scheduing classes for a few weeks as there is a glut of dog trainers regionally (numbers have more than triples in the past five years and I mentor so I know how many are coming up as well) now and since this is an "extra money" deal, (one of the first things to be cut when finances get bad is recreational stuff), my business is suffering as are many other regional trainers. So I am taking extra time to get the word out of upcoming classes. Luckily where I teach, I can make my own schedule to some degree.
Now, back in Sept, two weeks after I came home from MI with a new puppy who I spent a long time researching before driving 12 hours for him, my husband fell 15 feet. Multiple limb fractures, surgeries and may have to have another later this summer though the Ortho now thinks it can be pushed to next year. Good because my husband travels a lot for work (sometimes every month). Bad because he uses his hands for a lot of micromanipulation when working with cells. Therefore I had two months of him home and four weeks in a wheelchair and I was swamped with clients at that point (all the summer bought pups needed work). He just finished OT last week as he was not progressing more and the Ortho said he can do the exercises at home and he is to start massage therapy to help break up scar tissue in his wrist. Chances are he will bever fully recover though he has to the point where he is back at work, back travelling.
I also have a son who is Autism Spectrum - thank goodness high functioning. But I am in his class once a week now volunteering with his teacher and able to keep tabs on what he was doing. When he was younger, I was told he would never live independantly nor talk, etc. I stayed home to make sure I was supplementing all therapies and such outlined by specialists. Never regretted it but the first few years were tough and I was going in and out of DC for evals and testing at Georgetown University around the same time my daughter was born. Luckily I can work my business around the kids. My son is handling in his first dog show this Saturday!
But I had to put a lot of my life on hold for years and am getting back into it limitedly until my kids are older.
I am also a writer - I write for several print magazines (Two Sheltie and most recently, a Cane Corso mag that is brand new! - SACCI Journal I think is what they decided to call it) as well as am Pet Editor for a woman's magazine - on line - so I am on the computer a lot due to my writing.... Sometimes I take breaks and go to boards.
Your Life Magazine - online BTW...
Sheltie Pacesetter - regular contributor http://www.sheltie.com/ though I did nto get publised the issue still on line, the new one just came out but due to Nationals this week, the site has not been updated.
So I work from my HOUSE - of course I can be on line a but more - and when I am caught up on my work and the kids are not home (three mornings a week I have to myself) and I have nothing to do out of the house, I can play... Oh, I am also webmaster for three dog clubs - one is a national breed club...
Well, now my daughter and I are headed to change critter cages before the most recent dose of mag citrate and senna kicks in...
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