Thanks everyone!

Quote Originally Posted by Husky_mom View Post
Tabu is sooooo handsome.. it´ll be great if you got a Terv.. but you´d need Visa to carry it too isn´t it?...(can´t remember about that one )

will you be getting updates on baby girl?.. and how about Solo? how´s he doing?
Yes I'd need Visa to carry it, and unfortunatly it's highly highly unlikely that she does. But atleast some of the pups will, so maybe if I breed one of those ones I will get tervs one day.
Yes I'll be getting lots of updates on Kira. Her owner has been emailing me several times a day. She's already training her for tracking (and apparently she's doing very well and loooves turkey) and she started puppy classes yesterday.
Unfortunatly Solo is no longer with us. The people I had rehomed him with called me two months later and said he was attacking people. I was highly surprised as Solo was not an aggressive dog whatsoever, if anything he was exactly the opposite. I knew he could easily become fear aggressive if mishandled (he didn't have a great temperament), so I assumed this was the case. Unfortunatly this was not the case -- he was so extremely aggressive when I got him back that I ended up putting him down. I felt he was dangerous and was a liability for me to rehome. I don't know what happened to him but I've never seen a dog make a switch like that before. It wasn't even him anymore, there was no reasoning left in his head. He was absolutely vicious. It was one of the saddest things I've had to do but I think of it as a good life experience because it taught me a great deal of things, and I'll never take good temperament for granted -- it will always be my first priority in this breed.

I think I've come in the middle of things - what breed are they? You mention wanting a terv one day. Is that a Belgian Tervuren, and are these puppies Belgian Shepherds?
In every registry (except AKC) all four varieties (the tervuren, the malinois, the laekenois, and what I have -- the groenendael) are all considered Belgian shepherds. So yes, these are Belgian shepherds; Their variety is the longhaired black, called the groenendael. In AKC, they split the varieties into seperate breeds (excluding the laeken, AKC hasn't recognised these yet), and they changed the name of the groenendael to the Belgian sheepdog. So when I show up here in Canada, I am competing against all four varieties. When I show in the states, I will only be showing against other "Belgian sheepdogs."