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Griet of Sapphire Mountain: female At only 9 months of age, Griet was already performing advanced Guide work. Programmed trained dogs usually do not start formal training until 1 1/2 years of age. This tells you much about Griet's genetics and the handling skills of her owner Khanh.
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Email receive from Mary, a observer of Griet's guide
work: .... I also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you what an
amazing dog guide Griet is becoming. Although of course I haven't met any of
your other dogs, I have perused your website and your dogs obviously have a
great mix of good conformation, good genetics, and intelligence. Griet is a
testament to your breeding program. She is very intelligent, beautiful,
healthy, and for the most part unflappable. When she is working, she is very
focused on her work and I swear sometimes I can almost see her
thinking...analyzing how to handle a particular obstacle or situation. She
is flawless on the sidewalks and needs a little bit of work on the
crosswalks to learn how to go straight. Right now she occasionally veers
either towards the cars parked at the stoplight or toward the moving traffic
but she always keeps Khanh safe and she is very analytical. We have one
crosswalk last weekend where there was construction on each curb of the
crosswalk. Griet works her way |
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GIA of Sapphire Mountain: female |
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Email received:8-31-09:
Ramona, Thought you might be interested in
seeing a new video of Gia. Here's the link:
Will be sending you some photos of Gia soon.
Jeff Washburn
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Email received:4-609: Ramona, Here’s a link to a video of Gia doing some protection work last Saturday night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6z24B0DHCI&feature=channel_page She is doing well with both protection and tracking, although both are in the early stages at this point. Her ball and food drives are great. Should not be too much of a problem to start her on reward based obedience in a couple of months after her first heat cycle. Best regards. Jeff Washburn
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Email received:1-9-09:
Ramona, Our little girl Gia arrived on time and in great shape other
than being hungry, thirsty and exhausted from the flight. Her health records
were intact on the crate. She had a very vocal night, but we all survived
fine and she was rip-roaring to go this morning. She and our 11 month old
GSD are socializing well and she is determined to let him know that she is
the boss.
Email received: 6-13-09: Ramona, I had Gia's hips x-rayed this past week by my vet. She said that Gia's hips were looked excellent with good well-formed deep sockets. I reviewed the x-rays with the vet and was very well pleased with the formation of the hip sockets. Gia is doing outstanding with her schutzhund work and has a tremendous bark. Still a satisfied customer and hope to get some of my money back from you sometime in the near future through your new cash back incentive program for titles and certifications maybe even that $2500 for world competition.
Thanks again, Jeff Washburn
Email received:1-19-09: Hello Ramona, Thought you might like to see a picture of Gia at her new home. She has settled in well and is certainly a pretty and active little lady. She's been traveling with me to Schutzhund training and has got to bite on a burlap tug that we use to build prey drive, which she certainly has plenty of. The tug she is holding is one that I use to build prey drive and to teach targeting. She has already learned that a bark will get her a bite and a chance to play with the tug. We have introduced her to scent pads and short tracks. She appears that she will have good intensity to track as well. She responds well to reward based training methods inclusive of verbal praise and ball or tug play.
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pleased with our little girl and believe she is going to be easy to train
and will someday be a shining star at Schutzhund trials as well as a
proficient search dog.
Will keep you posted as her training progresses. Best Regards, Jeff Washburn
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Gjetta of Sapphire Mountain: female |
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Email received: 1-02-09. ...She's learning quick, and has a little bit 'harder' personality than we first thought. She loves to help sweep up... attacks the broom. Shoveling the walks she attacks the shovel. And thinks its great fun to attack the car wash brush also. |
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~ Below are more photos of Natasha's offspring; |
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 Griet |
 Khanh and Griet last day in Montana. |
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Gabby and Gia 6 weeks |
Griet 6 weeks |
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 Gjetta and Gia |
 Gita |
 Gita 6 weeks |
 Gjetta 6 weeks showing interest in an area where cadaver source was hidden. This litter was scent imprinted while in the nest. |
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