Introducing Pentangles Forever and Back

[jkf]

Meet Patrick! I got him last Saturday.

I think his big boy name will be Pentangles Forever and Back. Forever is part of his Mom's name and Back is part of his Dads name. He very cute, confident, and my other Beardie Ricky just loves having him around.

I just love him to pieces.

Julie

[Athy]

What a cutie patootie! As my grandpa used to say "That's kissin' material!"

I love his name - clever combo of mom and dad's with is own special meaning. Congrats!

Athy

[Elaine2]

Julie, congratulations, he is adorable!
Elaine 2

[jkf]

Thanks you guys for the kind words.
He is out of Dr. Deb Thomas, BISS Pentangles Forever Young (with too many herding an agility titles to post!!:p) and Michele Ritter's Ch. Britannia Back to the Future (again with too many other titles to post.):p That is how I came up with the name.
He is 11 wks old and I just forgot how they get into everything!! You have to watch them every minute! He follows Ricky everywhere and it is so much fun to watch Ricky actually teach him things. Ricky will do something then Patrick will try it. I've never seen that actually happen before. Maybe it is just because Ricky is so patient with him. Bye the way Ricky is 9 yrs. old.
Life is good!
Julie:)

[Sonquest]

Julie,
What a Sweet puppy and I LOVE the name! :):)
Enjoy the puppy stage! They grow up much to fast!!

Tina :):)

[Elaine]

Patrick is adorable... absolutely adorable! :) Btw, did Ricky have a sister Lucy? And was there an Ethel and a Fred? :)

[mosso]

Beardies are so frickin photogenic! Too cute! but I don't see him BOuNcInG yet? :)
stir

[jkf]

Yes Elaine, There was a Lucy,( lost her in January) and she had a litter. I named the whole litter after I love lucy names. Desi, Ricky, Ethel, Babaloo, Red, Mertzie,...and it goes on. She had only one litter, tried again but she absorbed the litter. So it wasn't meant to be. But wonderful dogs with great personalities and wonderful movement. Which I know you would have appreciated. Being the one that taught me everything I know!! Oh great and knowledgeable one!:cool::D
Julie

[Elaine]

Yes Elaine, There was a Lucy,( lost her in January) and she had a litter. I named the whole litter after I love lucy names. Desi, Ricky, Ethel, Babaloo, Red, Mertzie,...and it goes on. She had only one litter, tried again but she absorbed the litter. So it wasn't meant to be. But wonderful dogs with great personalities and wonderful movement. Which I know you would have appreciated. Being the one that taught me everything I know!! Oh great and knowledgeable one!:cool::D
Julie

They sound like absolutely charming kids... I imagine that you miss Lucy quite a bit... it is so hard to let go of them... but letting go with grace is a life-lesson we all need to master.

Ah, yes, I recall our "handling classes" ... we all had such a passion to understand everything... I think we all learned as much from each other as from any other source in dogs. :) Btw, I now have 2 Mr. Lincoln's ... think of you every time I look at them.

[jkf]

Elaine:
Remember the handling class we took in Burien somewhere....from the sheltie person? I'm getting old! I can't remember her name now. And old Satchel! She taught us that we all had to hold our arms out to the side. Like we all showed Shelties! Too funny!
And regarding thinking of me. You don't know how many times I think of you when I'm doing certain things. It's usually when I'm explaining some dog structure to someone, or planting flowers. 1/3 1/3 1/3!!!
As I write this Patrick and Ricky are playing tug wth a dish towel for the first time. Just too cute for words!
Miss ya
Julie

[Elaine]

Elaine:
Remember the handling class we took in Burien somewhere....from the sheltie person? I'm getting old! I can't remember her name now. And old Satchel! She taught us that we all had to hold our arms out to the side. Like we all showed Shelties! Too funny!
And regarding thinking of me. You don't know how many times I think of you when I'm doing certain things. It's usually when I'm explaining some dog structure to someone, or planting flowers. 1/3 1/3 1/3!!!
As I write this Patrick and Ricky are playing tug wth a dish towel for the first time. Just too cute for words!
Miss ya
Julie
It was Rosemary Petter’s class.... ... her daughter Linda showed that beautiful bitch Calli - for Kay and Carl... and for some reason I seem to link Cadbury Chocolate bars with Rosemary's classes. :p Those were the good old days, when we "believed." E.g., we thought if we bred a good enough dog, we could win Westminster. :rolleyes: Btw, I think we also took classes from Jim Bennett, and, not sure if you went as far as to take from Jane Anderson... but I did, several times... and then we did the drop in classes at Pam Sage’s... with Sandy Frei, Merrilee... all the Great Dane people... and god I've forgotten who all else. Btw, wasn't Linda Guhien (sp?) around then too? She certainly skyrocketed to fame and fortune!!! Kinda left us in the dust:D

Remember when you and I were in the Beardie ring together at Sammamish... you were showing a cute Beardie puppy, Rosie... so I took Satchell in the Breed for you. I think the judge was Dolly Ward. I kept telling her Satchell’s layback was “here” and she kept walking over to check him again to see if she missed anything... You started to laugh.

We were so young back then. We hadn’t a clue about “The Game” or how it was played. Lisa was the only one who "got it" back then. We were too naive to "get" much of anything. That was about the time that Bob Hastings was showing Ch. Sherluck’s Drumfire... and Ch. H'penny Hoyden at Edmar... and for about a year there either Bob or Pat would go Best at most every show with either Penny or Drummer. Remember the parties at Marie Moe’s... remember she had that silver punch bowl with 22 engraved silver cups for each Best In Show for Drummer and Penny? Remember Pat giving Bruin “a hair cut” at the Seattle KC show before turning him over to Linda Petter... ‘cause he had a flea.

About structure... you've missed several new lectures, about the "return of upper arm" and all the stuff from the horses... about the engine, the transmission and the wheels and "coming under himself... grabbing the ground and pushing off... while carrying a firm top line and an uphill frame. Geez! Here I go again. I guarantee you that E2 just fell asleep :D Thank god I haven't figured out how to upload the snoring smilley face icon. :D:D:D

As for “a third, a third and a third” words to live by for any gardener. :) But sadly, I’ve decided that Mother Nature’s colors do clash... but that doesn't seem to stop me. :p

[tosca]

That handling class would've been taught by Rosemary Petter, I'd suspect! Took many a class from her myself!

[jkf]

E:
I do remember now that you refreshed my memory! You'rs in better than mine. But you are younger:p
And those days at Maries I remember all too wel. And showing together. All the dog shows and classes and the eagerness to learn. Those where fun times.
Damn I missed the new classes on "grabbing the ground" and return of upper arm" and what was the other one... "coming under himself"??:p Who got the pleasure of listening to those soap boxes?? :p Like I said before, you are a fountain of knowledge and I learn allot from you. I do however remember baiting our dogs with peanut M&M's!! Satchel would come running when he heard the candy wrapper.
Julie

[Elaine]

How odd, I haven't had a taste for Peanut M & M's for years, but recently they seem to be calling me from the grocery shelf. I just polished off a bag of them. :D

But what were we thinking using them for bait? :eek: :rolleyes:. I'd like to think that my handling has improved since then. :p

And boy you’ve missed a whole lot. :D My “return of the upper arm speech” goes right after the “socially reinforced delusional self awareness” speech and right before the “the goal of all living organisms is to project the most copies of their genes into the future" speech (which came from Dr. Jim Ha -Comparative Animal Behavior -at the University of Washington in about 1996).


You and I and Merrilee, we definitely had the passion back then... and that made the process fun. We wanted to learn, loved "talking dogs" and we truly believed we could do it all. Geez, we were goons... we probably believed in the Easter Bunny too. :D

Maybe it’s a function of age, but it seems harder and harder to generate that passion now. And you really have to make things fun. We are all older... I find it harder to get a gang together for a handling class. Arthur and I took a series of classes from an instructor who did not know our breed, and it simply was not fun and not good for the dogs.

Carmen Pitts broke her arm earlier this year, she could not work, so she was able to give handling classes to a friend and I... it was great fun (helped with the Tarheel Circuit) but Carmen’s arm eventually healed and she had to go back to work. At one point we considered breaking it again, just to keep her around as our instructor, but that seemed a bit selfish. :cool:

[jkf]

I have to say that having to go back to hauling all that stuff into a show and getting ready to have your dog shown is not calling me this time. It has been 8 yrs since I had to that. Maybe a regional thrown in here an there in between only. And you have a smooth coated dog. Try having to groom one of these guys for a show and then work all week also. I hope I have it in me. I am going to take Patrick to a few little drop in handling classes. Merrilee is showing a dog right now and I have other friends who have puppies Patrick's age also who are showing. I will just take it in stride.
E: said:
About structure... you've missed several new lectures, about the "return of upper arm" and all the stuff from the horses... about the engine, the transmission and the wheels and "coming under himself... grabbing the ground and pushing off... while carrying a firm top line and an uphill frame. Geez! Here I go again. I guarantee you that E2 just fell asleep Thank god I haven't figured out how to upload the snoring smilley face icon.

This whole paragraph just makes me laugh out loud!!! That's the Elaine I remember know and love!! It doesn't take much to stir you up!!:D:D:p
I have to say I am kind of curious... how does the upper arm return??? LOL :p
Julie