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Update: 9-6-05: Hi Ramona,  Nike is doing great and I am so pleased with her! She's smart, confident, so eager to learn and please! We attended a "Disaster Seminar" this summer with Andy Rebmann & Marcy Koenig. She did great on the rubble pile! Her tracking is also coming along very well. Last week we started in some woods, crossed a playground and ended up in a school yard. She did awesome! Not phased  a bit by all the contamination or cross tracks. She graduated top of her "puppy obedience class" :) We'll be starting some more formal classes this fall. She is also very perceptive to the special needs of children and the elderly. My mother-in law is 85 and very fragile. She is excellent in how she responds to her.  Now that I've started back to work, she attends a "Doggie Day Care"....she has too much energy to be left at the house. Her "teacher" says that she is very good with the other dogs and if there are no games she will often take a toy, toss it in front of another dog, and then the chase is on!  I am trying to decide if I want to breed her or not. She's got such great qualities, and there is another GSD on our team that is wonderful. It would be great to have one of her puppies, but then I think I would be entering a whole new territory that I know nothing about yet. Any thoughts on this? I'm leaning towards getting her spayed and leaving the breeding to folks like you who know what you're doing! Maybe just put me on the list for another puppy in five years!
Thanks for checking in!  Rebecca

Hey Ramona,
Wanted to send you some pictures of Nike enjoying the Alaska winter! We've been doing a lot of cadaver training recently. She's doing very well in indicating the scent source with a down. She's seems to love to work, and is an independent thinker. Recently, I left some scent material outside and was going to do the problem later. Gary didn't realize I had put the material out, and Nike went outside with him. She decided to work the problem on her own and brought the material to him, dropping it at his feet. Guess she decided she wanted her reward, even if she had to point it out that she had found it!

It's been a tough year since losing Barley my first SAR dog to cancer. Nike's had big paws to fill, but she's stepping up to the job and gains more of my heart every day!

Thanks for all the excellent work you do in your dog breeding program.
Hope all is well in your world.

Rebecca
PAWS Search and Rescue Dogs