Is Visa showing signs of coming into heat yet?!?
I'm going to be getting a female Groenendael from Visa's litter. Her name will probably be Nevaeh (Heaven backwards). Her registered name will be "Attra Dea's Stairway to Heaven". Kai's full name is "Fool in the Rain" and Kaedyn's is "Dazed and Confused" so it'll fit with the Led Zeppelin theme.
The pup will be socialized SO much. I don't want to resocialize another adult dog. Hopefully I'll have my dog daycare set up while it's growing up so I can bring it to work with me and socialize with dogs there. If not, I'll take it to dog parks regularly.. and watch agility trials with it too. I'd love to do therapy with this one too as that would be AWESOME socialization.
I'm also really excited because I'll be feeding this pup raw from the get-go. It'll be really interesting seeing how fast it grows.
I won't be training in obedience too extensively as a pup though. The reason I'm allowed to get this pup is so I can bring it to a program with me. The program requires us to bring an untrained dog. I'll only be teaching it sit, down, stay, and come as well as commands for around the house, and tricks.. no heel, stand, finish, retrieve, etc. I want this pup to have unbelievable recall so I'll abe focusing a lot on recall. I'm going to train for contacts, pause, weaves and tunnel while it's a pup. Maybe even jumps too.. but have it set low enough for it to simply walk over. I think I might start on preparing it for flyball too.
As an adult, we will compete in obedience, agility, hopefully flyball and dabble in a bit of hobby herding if the instinct is there. I'd love to train this dog to utility level in obedience. We'll also compete in conformation depending on how it turns out (although, I'm sure it'll be uber pretty with visa as a mommy!) And if I can find a club for it, I'd LOVE to take on Schutzhund and Rally-o.
And if she turns out to be an excellent example of her breed, I would love to breed her.








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