U Litter: CAZ AND ZINNA
whelped October
13: 1 black & tan male, 2 sable males,
1 sable female
This is a repeat of the L and R Litters. See Zinna's Pups for photos and updates.
Sire: Cassis vom Haus Valkenplatz IWR-IPO3
"a" normal whelped 6/4/1997
Von Willebrand's and Hemophilia free (these are bleeding disorders)
OFA good hips: GS-65649G66M-PI; OFA elbows: GS-EL14599M66-PI
OFA Cardiac: GS-CA156/67M/P-PI
CERF: GS-1017/2003-71
OFA thyroid: GS-TH222/95M-PI
Caz is producing very nicely. Caz is a beautiful, medium sized male with gorgeous dark black and red pigment. His temperament is outstanding--he is confident and relaxed in all situations and his tail wags constantly as he enjoys whatever is going on. People fall, in love with him wherever he goes. He is quite social, thoroughly enjoying people of all ages, especially children. He has done well on visits to the nursing homes and is a registered Therapy Dog. He is willing and eager to please, a happy dog who loves to play and to retrieve. His temperament is superb--confident, serene, not needing to push or prove anything. He gets along well with other animals, though he's not good with cats.
Caz comes from excellent Dutch & Belgian working lines. His mother line (Tiekerhook) is a female line noted for being very worthy, working all day long, having great drive and sound health and hips. Carmen (Caz's grandmother) is one of the best producing Tiekerhook females of all times. His sire was a noted working dog, from respected working lines, and was known for producing excellent working dogs.
Caz has very nice working drives and loves to retrieve. He showed stress in tracking, probably from being force-trained to track in Europe, but responded amazingly quickly to some remedial work and is now tracking beautifully. He got to go to a Search & Rescue tracking seminar in April, 2003, and the SAR people loved his drives and personality. They said he would be great at SAR work. They also raved about his gorgeous pigment, nice size and sound, balanced structure. Three of the "L" litter went for SAR, and several more people are interested in obtaining one of his pups for SAR. One of the "R" Litter is doing extremely well in Schutzhund training and another is wowing everyone in tracking.
Caz is also thoroughly enjoying agility training and soars happily over the jumps with verve and enthusiasm and is working on agility titles. We're working on heeling with attention and group stays, and if all goes well I hope to try for his Companion Dog title.
Caz was imported by a woman in Missouri in July 2002 and came to me in late December 2002. He had one very nice litter in Missouri: 3 went for Search & Rescue, 3 for police work, one as a service dog for a handicapped person and one was kept by the breeder for Schutzhund competition and breeding. I'm excited about what he should produce for me. He is an eager and intense stud dog and his litters (Litter L & R with Zinna, Litter N with Jubilee, Litters O, P, & T with Ashi and T Litter with Ashi's daughter, Dani) look very nice so far. He is also proving to be an excellent father. He is very gentle and patient with his pups and absolutely fascinated by them. I am amazed, because he usually is a hell-bent-for-leather, go-through-rather-than-around kind of guy and I expected him to be to rough or bouncy around small pups. He, however, moves very slowly and carefully around them and obviously knows instinctively that they need to be treated carefully.
more information & photos of Caz
Dam: Zinna
whelped
12/13/01Von Willebrand's
and Hemophilia freeOFA Hips (good): GS-69031G27F-PI
OFA Elbows (normal): GS-EL16305F-PI
OFA Cardiac: GS-CA1
701/19F/P-PI.OFA thyroid
: GS-TH163/19F-PICERF: GS-1018/2003-17
registered Therapy Dog (Therapy Dogs Incorporated)
I got Zinna in May 2003 when she was 17 months old. She was very immature, so I waited until this year to begin serious training. We are now doing agility, obedience and tracking. She is doing very well in agility and probably would be ready to show this fall if I weren't going to breed her. She will definitely be ready to go next year. Zinna is very willing and tries hard to please. She is a very laid back dog and enjoys retrieving but isn't driven like my Glory girls (Ashi, Jubilee, Bunny, Joyful), so I expect a variety of activity levels in her puppies: a few high drive, intense pups but more of medium drive and quieter natures. Because of her quiet, sweet affectionate nature, Zinna is the best Therapy Dog of my bunch.
I'm expecting very richly pigmented, outgoing, confident pups from this combination.