Sunday, April 12, 2009

Changing Faces

If you scroll down to the bottom of all the posts you'll find a slideshow of the Tandem Dogs. The oldest photo was taken in 1996. Donna had the Belgian and Aussie and I had the two Shar-Pei. Somewhere about that time an obedience judge at a seminar dinner asked me if I'd ever thought of having another breed. I very honestly said no I loved the breed and was/had been doing tracking, obedience, conformation and agility with them. I eventually had 5.

It matters not what breed we have or what we do with them, because they all become special. Susan Garrett believes that a dog comes into her life for a reason. Mine certainly have and I could tell you a life's lesson or two I learned from each of them. Mine have also come into my life at very important times. The Shar-Pei had various health problems and Pei, my Aussie, came at one of those times as did Echo, my Collie. Coffee Bean came before I knew I would loose Pei.

As Donna starts down a new road with Ube, I wish her lots of joy, love and fun. If in the process they gather a bucket load of ribbons and titles it will be frosting on the cake, because Ube was meant for Donna and Mike!

2 comments:

Jennifer Burns said...

I love the slide show. What a beautiful group of dogs. I am amazed at how many dogs sat so still together.

Sydney said...

Jennifer, Funny you should mention sitting still. When we took the 2006 photo Zuni was blind. Once we released the dogs - or somedog did - we were busy trying to get Zuni when we heard a splash behind us! Inc was in the pool!