It’s extremely hard, difficult and frustrating to try to have three people agree on a dog to breed to. Equally and even more hair-pulling (on my and Matt’s part) is having a big, huge prerequisite slapped on it. The one thing hanging over our heads was that this dog HAD to be a shorthair. A shorthair you say? Can’t be that difficult……except that most of the really nice dogs out there are longhair. In fact, I have 2 longhairs that I have access to, but NOOOOOOOOO, can’t have that. We will end up with *gasp* a WHOLE LITTER OF LONGHAIR ST. BERNARDS!! For shame, for shame!
So we embarked on a month long tour of websites and lots of talking with people in the breed that we respect. We didn’t find anything that we liked in the Northeast because, well, that would be TOO easy! Drive to get Polly bred? No, we like our DNA in a brown box please, unmarked if you know what I mean. So we really liked a dog from Kings Mill Kennel in Wisconsin. Matt called Lacey and the conversations ensued. And I’m sure Lacey thinks we are all kinds of weirdo, but Matt always said he wouldn’t breed to a dog that he couldn’t have his hands on. We’ve never seen this dog in person, so it’s killing Matt. He would call her and ask all kinds of questions. At one point, I almost emailed her to ask her to write an essay on his qualities and faults, but I figured that would be a little overboard, so I didn’t. Matt asked her over the phone anyway. Yeah, a little nutso. So, it was agreed upon.
We chose to breed her to Kings Mill Unitas. A very nice smooth male from Wisconsin. His head is beautiful. He’s a big, upstanding dog. He does have a fault, and that’s the fact that he’s a Packers fan. We are big Patriots fans, so, maybe it’s ok, we do have the snow in common, I guess.
Of course, Polly’s cycle did not cooperate very well. She probably surged on Sunday and we couldn’t get the semen in until Tuesday. By then, she was over 10, so there was no point in shipping again. She got one AI on June 29th which makes her due date August 31st. Her section is scheduled for that day with x-rays being done the Friday before. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!
~Amy D.
Delicious 
Digg This Post 
Ping This Post 
Reddit This Post 
Stumble This Post
