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HUNTER STITCH at DRAGONAIR DD CD RXmcl CGN AWD Am.RN NAJ CGC
Canadian Kennel Club: Draft Dog, Canine Good Neighbour, Companion Dog Canadian Association of Rally Obedience: Rally Excellent magna cum laude Portuguese Water Dog Club of America: Apprentice Water Dog American Kennel Club: Rally Novice, Novice Agility Jumpers, Canine Good Citizen
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This is undoubtedly the smartest, cutest, most marvelous puppy that ever leaped upon the planet! Stitch is a black and white wavy Portuguese Water Dog bitch. Her breeder is Elaine Lyons Suter http://www.hunterpwd.com Her mother is CH Belouro Hunter's Tomgirl, NAP, NJP, JWC and her sire is Cartmel Sea Comet |
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Above, Stitch using a trained paw-lift to interrupt my book-writing to ask me to get off my... chair... and please put her breakfast dish on the floor | |
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| The Draft Dog title involves obedience-type control exercises without the cart, mavouevering exercises with the cart, and then a cross-country trek with the cart and load. At left, Stitch does a Figure 8 with the cart around two towers seconds before I stepped on a broken golf tee and drove it all the way into my foot. | ||
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How I Spent My Winter Vacation In San Diego they know how to make a dog park! Does it get better than this? |
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Yes, it does! |
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Second birthday picture. Apparently when you cease to be a teenager, they expect you to get a JOB. **WHO KNEW??** And does that mean the old bag gets to retire? And could she possibly retire somewhere that isn't in MY cart?
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Here's Stitch getting her first of three AKC legs in her first four agility runs at the PWDCA American National Specialty Show in Cumberland, Maryland, September, 2005. It sums her up nicely, I think - why jump 20" when you can jump 24?
Great photo by Susan Ra Minder! |
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This is my first-birthday picture. Mom says I remind her of someone, but she won't tell me who... and she's started calling me "Alien Life Form". What's up with THAT? | |
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| Can somebody explain this to me? What exactly does killing the rabbit | have to do with not getting anything in my Easter basket? | |
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| In the beginning. Can't you just smell the puppy breath? | Of course, I'm much older and more mature now. 8 weeks. | |
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| 15 Weeks. Really, I don't look anything like I did then. | 6 months. Who would recognise me now? This must be as big as a dog can get! Do I get the car keys this week? | |
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| I still chase my tail, but I'm smart enough not to catch it any more. | Too often. | |
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| They run a tight ship here, but I'm getting the hang of the rules. | ||
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got a nickname. GM! Cool, eh? |
Yep,
General Manager. There's a name a girl could sink her teeth into! |
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Then
I found out GM stands for |
Gaping
Maw. |
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I OBJECT TO THIS DEFAMATION OF MY GOOD NAME IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS! |
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