SARA'S STORY BEGINS LIKE MANY OTHER PUPPIES THAT ARE PICKED FOR SHOW. SHE WAS OUT OF A LITTER OF 8 BROWN AND BROWN/TAN PUPPIES BORN TO MY TROUBLE. SHE QUICKLY BECAME MY PICK PUPPY. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THE FIRST THING THAT CAUGHT NOT ONLY MY EYE, BUT EVERYONE ELSE'S WAS HER EXQUISITE HEADPIECE AND PERFECT EARSET. SHE IS MARKED BEAUTIFULLY WITH DARK RICH CHOCOLATE BROWN COLORING. WHICH REMAINS DARK TO THIS DAY.
SARA & I MADE OUR WAY TO HANDLING CLASSES TO GET BOTH OF US READY TO HIT THE SHOW RING. BOTH OF US WERE COMPLETE NOVICES AND LOOKING BACK WE MADE SO MANY MISTAKES IT'S A WONDER I'M STILL HERE TODAY. MOST PEOPLE I MET WERE VERY ENCOURAGING AND TRIED TO HELP THE NEWBIE UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS GOING ON. A FEW WERE NOT AS NICE. ONE COMMENT THAT WAS MADE TO ME EARLY ON WAS TO SPAY MY SARA AND GET A REAL SHOW DOG!
WE PERSISTED FOR AWHILE, BUT I THINK MY EARLY TRAINING WAS SARA'S EVENTUAL DOWNFALL. SHE WAS SO ATTACHED TO ME NO ONE ELSE COULD SHOW HER. SHE HATED BEING AWAY FROM ME AND HER CRYING UPSET ME TERRIBLY.
I DECIDED SARA JUST DIDN'T ENJOY THE SHOW LIFE. AROUND THIS TIME I STARTED LOOKING FOR THE BEST STUD DOG TO BREED HER TO. I STILL WANTED A PUPPY TO SHOW AND THIS TIME I HAD THE HELP OF A HANDLER WHO WOULD EVENTULLY TURN OUT TO BE THE MENTOR I NEEDED TO GET STARTED.
THE DESISION WAS MADE TO BREED HER TO "COAST", CH.ROADSHOW N K-LINES COAST TO COAST. SHE PRODUCED 7 BEAUTIFUL PUPPIES OF WHICH I KEPT TWO, "NINA" & "MACY". THEY WENT ON TO BECOME OUR FIRST HOMEBRED CHAMPIONS. NINA FINISHED WITH 4 MAJORS AND I WAS ABLE TO PUT A MAJOR ON MACY MYSELF.
AROUND THE TIME I FIRST BRED SARA I ALSO AQUIRED A BLACK MALE THAT WAS TO BECOME, IN TIME, MY FIRST CHAMPION, "SHINER", BIS,BISS A/C CH.BRICKETT'S SHOT IN THE DARK. THE NEXT TIME WE BRED SARA IT WAS TO OUR SHINER. THIS ALSO PRODUCED 7 LOVELY PUPS. AGAIN I KEPT TWO, "TANGO" & "JAZZY". BOTH FINISHED THEIR CHAMPIONSHIPS VERY EASILY. TANGO PLACED SECOND IN THE OPEN CLASS AT SUMMER NATIONALS AND I PUT QUITE A FEW SINGLES ON JAZZY MYSELF.
FOR SARA'S NEXT LITTER I WAS FINALLY TO BREED TO THE DOG I HAD BEEN WAITING TO BREED HER TO SINCE HE WAS A PUPPY, "RUDY" CH.K-LINE N CUTT'S BEYOND-A-DOUBT. THIS LITTER AGAIN PRODUCED 7 PUPPIES, ALL BROWN AND BROWN/TAN. AS OF THIS WRITING SO FAR THREE HAVE FINISHED. "AJ", "HALLIE", AND "DANIEL". SHE HAS ONE MORE DAUGHTER IN THE RING FROM THIS LITTER.
ALTHOUGH THAT WAS TO BE HER FINAL LITTER, I SO WANTED TO REPEAT THE OUTSTANDING LITTER. SO WITH OUR VET'S APPROVAL WE DECIDED TO DO IT AGAIN. ON JANUARY 7, 2005 DURING WINTER NATIONALS OUR SARA PRESENTED US WITH HER FINAL 7 BABIES. FIVE OF THOSE PUPPIES HAVE JUST ENTERED THE SHOW RING. "RUFUS", CH.CUTT'S ISLAND ONE HOT COCOA, WAS THE FIRST TO FINISH WITH BACK-TO-BACK 5 POINT SPECIALITY MAJORS AT JUST 11 MONTHS OLD. HIS BROTHER JORDAN, CH.COCOAS N CC'S IT'S ABOUT TIME FINISHED IN JUST 13 SHOWS WITH 3 MAJORS.
I GUESS MY POINT IN WRITING ALL THIS IS TO SHOW JUST BECAUSE A DOG ISN'T A CHAMPION IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY SHOULD BE SPAYED AND NEVER BRED. SO MANY GREAT PRODUCERS NEVER BECAME A CHAMPION OR STOOD IN THE SHADOW OF A LITTERMATE WHO WAS A TOP SHOW DOG.
ALTHOUGH SARA HATING SHOWING ALL OF HER PUPPIES HAVE OUTSTANDING ATTITUDES IN THE RING. SHE HAS CONSISTENTLY PUT HER MARK ON ALL HER OFFSPRING, THEY ALL POSESS HER BEAUTIFUL HEADPIECE & PERFECT EARSET.
SARA IS NOW SPAYED AND RETIRED, SHE LIVES WITH MY FRIEND MARYELLEN. MARYELLEN IS NOT IN GOOD HEALTH AND WHEN SHE LOST HER 16 YEAR DOG SHE WAS DEVASTATED. SARA WAS THE BEST MEDICINE YOU COULD PRESCIBE. SARA NEVER LEAVES HER SIDE AND THEY GO EVERYWHERE TOGETHER. |
