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Ourgang Staffords Temperament with Type |
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Ourgang TrueLove N Chaos “Murtle” |
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Murtle, aka. Murtle Turtle, Murt the Squirt, Squirty, Schmurtle, Murty Baby, Baby Doll. What can I say … Daddy’s Girl … as much as Maddy was my baby, Murt is Glenn’s though since Mad has gone she is becoming my girl (at her insistence rather than mine) much to Glenn’s chagrin.
We often get asked if Murt is a miniature Stafford as she is only 13.5 inches, compact and built like a brick – a perfect statue Stafford in miniature. People tell me to start a new breed – miniatures, I just laugh, her father is a big boy and all of her children tower over her.
Murtle is a reincarnation of her mother, she is a double up on Maddy with all of Maddy’s bad and lovable habits amplified. If Mad does something bad, Murt will always go that one step further. When she was young I ran on her sister, Polly to decide which one I would keep. I already had my suspicions then that she would be small but I couldn’t resist her, the clincher being when speaking to my friend Stella who just plainly said to me “Who are you kidding, she is so like Mad you are never going to get rid of her” I thought to myself “she’s hit the nail on the head, that’s exactly right” so the Squirt stayed and Polly went to a great home with the White family.
Wicked, wicked, wicked and completely lovable is our baby Murt. She will happily smile and look you in the eyes lovingly as she eats that electric whipper snipper, crunch up her body and waggle her whole rear end in happiness as she destroys that lounge. It doesn’t matter what she does, she always gets away with it as she is the spoilt baby and she knows it & knows how to crook her little toe to get around us.
As a Stafford, Murtle is an improvement on her mother, a stronger head, beautiful black pigmentation, better topline, nice and compact, nice angulation but just not quite enough leg, those short little legs that just didn’t grow are the bane of my life. People often say to me, if she’d just had another inch or two she’d have been a stunner. I agree, but unfortunately you cant put them on the rack and stretch those legs (as much as my friends have offered), have implants or any of those things to get the perfect dog so she is Murtle, just as she is.
Murtle has often tricked other dogs into believing she is a sweet innocent little puppy, her favourite trick being to crawl up to another dog on her belly, waiting for them to get close enough, showing all the submissive signs then whammo – she scares the life out of them by turning into this whirling dervish who is telling them off. She hates being away from home and gets really grumpy, the longer we are away the worse she gets, being unbearable to the others so she stays home most of the time.
Squirt gets this nickname from two areas. 1) Her size 2) She Loves water – if you go anywhere near the hose she is there, waiting for the moment that the water shows at the end of that rubber pipe, leaping and whirling to stop that flow of never ending water. (If you’ve never seen a dog blow up like a balloon, then this is it).
She produced one beautiful litter for me which produced two champions (Litter 8) but I vowed never to put her through that again as she is a little dog & carrying seven pups was way too much for her small frame with the last two weeks of her pregnancy causing real concern so she was desexed when her babies were four months old. She was a good mum & really looked after the pups when young but once they were older they harassed the stuffing out of her so she didn’t want to play with them. As soon as half the litter had left home the games began and those poor three pups left were played with non stop as she could handle three but not the six.
These days she enjoys staying at home with Glenn or going to Bathurst (though she hates the trip there as she suffers from ear pressure problems going over the mountains) or the occasional outing to a show to compete in the Neuter class. A real homebody with personality plus, she is one that you have to live with to get to know and appreciate. Not known for being quiet, she may be small but she knows how to gain attention if necessary (just ask Stella about her most embarrassing dog holding moment). She is my least sociable one but will accept other dogs after a while, ie. she is happy once she has bitten them…
STOP PRESS!!! Everyone now has to go out and buy Supercoat Lix Crunchy Rolls that feature our beautiful Murtle on the cover, it is just a shame that she looks like a possessed devil dog, but we wont mention that bit… just look at the Barrels of Fun website instead, the photo is much nicer there ... |
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^ Murt at 6 wks ^ Murt at 4 mths ^ Murt at 3.5 yrs Murt at 3 yrs Aren’t I Bewdiful … Cabal Head Shot Murt at 5 yrs Murt on the Lix packet |
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See Litter 7 for pedigree |
