"The years before this litter was conceived and why!!"

Seven and a half years ago I fell in love with Fire, even as a 2 week old puppy I loved her! She was the first to crawl out of the box landed in a water dish and was out to see what else the world had in store for her. Her core temperament was so solid, she captured my heart. Making the decision to let her go to Helen was easy and hard all at the same time as Helen is an outstanding first class home for any dog. When I got to meet Helen and Fire again in the spring of 2005, Helen and I talked about how much we loved her even stable temperament, she had great work ethic, and social nature. She in a word had everything we had ever hoped for in a wonderful obedience and performance companion as well as a wonderful dog to live with. Helen made the comment of, let me know when you get another one like her! I sighed, I didn't know how! I thought Fire was special, even 5 years later she was everything I thought she would be when she was a puppy, and everything I hoped for in the match between Duc and Tessa. Helen and I talked and decided that perhaps if we found the right sire? We would do one breeding with Fire. After all, Fire is a house companion, a beloved member of her family as well as a wonderful obedience dog. Helen had always admired Gus and Cain full brothers to Titus; she had seen them over the years and was very happy with their moderate balanced structure, but even more their HAPPY confident outgoing temperaments. I told Helen that Titus was the same way, and that while we could look at other stud dogs and how they produced we would have a chance to watch 2 litters out of Titus before we planned to do Fire's litter. We had considered a few other dogs; after all, choosing another sire would help broadened my breeding program. But we also knew this was a one time deal we wanted the best chance of getting the puppies we expected and the puppies we wanted out of Fire. Fire would be 7.5 yrs old at the time of the breeding and we wanted the best that we could to get puppies we were very happy with not only looks but most importantly temperament. After the Wild puppies were born and started to grow up, I felt even more confident that Titus was the right choice for Fire. Promise and Fire are half sisters both sired by Duc, they both posses his solid confident core temperament. Titus has his own page that will tell you more about why I love this silly "show" dog, don't tell anyone but after his retirement from the show ring this past spring, he started training in Schutzhund and recently passed his BH.