Yearly Follow ups

I contact all my owners each year to see how their dog(s) are
doing and to update my records on any health or behavior issues.
Often they send me pictures. You know how they say if you live
together long enough, you begin to look alike? Here are Lotus
and Juki (cousins). They are now dressing alike!

Amelia visits for her Health Screening

  

Prior to breeding, both sire and dam need to have complete health 

testing. Amelia is staying with me for a few days and will see the 

eye doctor for her CERF tomorrow and will have cheek swabs done

for the gene tests we now have to clear our dogs for GM-1 (storage

disease), PRA (blindness), and JDCM (cardiomyopathy). This also 

gives Amelia a chance to reacquaint with my "pack" so that when

whelping time comes, she will be comfortable in my house and with 

my dogs. (Amelia only weighs 44 pounds and she thinks she is a lap 

dog.)