After the Doodle Romp on October 23rd, Galena and her family, including brother Carni, came to our house for an extended visit. Since Galena will be one of our breeding girls once she matures and will come to our house to have her puppies, it is important that she remain familiar and comfortable with us and our home. This is especially true as she only spent 9 weeks with us after birth, unlike Garnet who was with us 3½ months (or Lyra & Cassi who have been here 5 months, though they won’t be breeding girls).
She certainly displayed no anxiety about coming into our house and playing with the kids and the dogs we currently had around – Amore, Cassi, Lyra, & Aspen. But then she has always been a very friendly girl, happy to go to virtually anyone – guess all that early socialization paid off! Though on the other hand, her recall (i.e. “come when called”) isn’t great, so she doesn’t get to run off-leash unless there’s limited opportunity for her to run off. That’s something her parents are working on.
We humans enjoyed supper together (thanks Martin!) and a pleasant visit while the dogs got some quality time visiting each other.
Galena is a happy, healthy, well-adjusted and very beautiful dark chocolate girl of 7½ months old. We’ll start her health testing in early 2012 and – assuming she passes all her tests – you can look for her puppies in a year’s time. The daddy will be one of our local boys.
Carni says bye!
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