Introducing: High Jinks vom Neuanfang

[gsdraven]

Congrats Willy!! He's adorable and I look forward to seeing his progress and what you do with him.

[Mrs.K]

And the name is awesome! It's perfect! Perfect little puppy. Welcome to the club, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride.

[carmspack]

well --- take care of his pasterns and feet when landing -- love the colour -- good luck to you

[Shade]

Congratulations!! He's absolutely adorable, what a firecracker!

Jazzy doesn't like big dogs, especially high energy big dogs so I knew she would take time to warm up to Delgado and it would be a lot of supervising, especially with the size difference. Now they DO sleep on the couch or bed together and watch out for each other . It can be done for sure, you'll learn their cues and they'll learn you'll look out for them and keep them in line

[wildo]

Originally Posted by carmspack

take care of his pasterns and feet when landing

What's wrong with his pasterns and feet?

[JakodaCD OA]

willy I love a play on names It will fit him, at one point I was thinking of "kaze' (as in kamikaze) for Jynx, but Jynx suits her..

[KristiM]

Originally Posted by wildo

What's wrong with his pasterns and feet?

I am not an expert...but I have spent a lot of time looking at, asking about and researching pasterns because someone once told me that Odin should not be doing any jumping because of his pasterns. (Now any time I talk to someone who knows anything about canine structure, dog sports etc I ask about it.) Your puppy's pasterns and feet look fine to me, his pasterns look slightly on the long side but also look nice and tight. I'm also fairly certain that they look long becuase of one - gangly puppy stage and two - bad picture angle. I wouldn't worry about it. I see you two kicking some serious border collie butt in the future.

(Also went back and watched the vid of him, he did SOOO good with Pimg!! I don't think you have anything to worry about He looks like a nicley balanced, confident little man that is obviously pretty into his toys.)

[Guardyan]

Congratulations on your new addition!

Just to satisfy my own curiosity . . . did they know anything about his background? I just don't see any shep in him. Looks like a mali kid to me.

[wildo]

Originally Posted by Guardyan

Just to satisfy my own curiosity . . . did they know anything about his background? I just don't see any shep in him. Looks like a mali kid to me.

I wish I could satisfy your curiosity, but unfortunately I can't. When I spoke with the rescue on the phone, I didn't have a super great connection. Ok- fine, I won't blame the connection- but I seriously have a hard time understanding people over the phone. I often joke that I'm half deaf because I never hear people. I had a hearing test recently that proved I'm not loosing my hearing- but what do they know anyway...

At any rate- I didn't really get the whole story. I can piece together what I heard, but I'm afraid I'm probably botching it, or maybe even making part of it up to "fill in the blanks..."

Here's what I think I heard:
Jinks was in Detroit, and owned by a police officer. The cop has a busy life and job, and was obviously not able to put in the time. Someone knew this, and asked if they could send the pup to a rescue. Cop agreed. End of story... Again- breeder/bloodlines completely unknown.


I know some of that doesn't really make sense. Why would the guy randomly give up his dog to send to rescue?? So like I said- probably a botched story, but that's as much as I heard and/or can piece together. Stupid ears!

...Sorry- I know that's a pretty unsatisfying answer.

[wildo]

Originally Posted by KristiM

I am not an expert...but I have spent a lot of time looking at, asking about and researching pasterns because someone once told me that Odin should not be doing any jumping because of his pasterns. (Now any time I talk to someone who knows anything about canine structure, dog sports etc I ask about it.) Your puppy's pasterns and feet look fine to me, his pasterns look slightly on the long side but also look nice and tight. I'm also fairly certain that they look long becuase of one - gangly puppy stage and two - bad picture angle. I wouldn't worry about it. I see you two kicking some serious border collie butt in the future.

Thanks Kristi! I also don't really see anything wrong with the pasterns/feet. The pasterns look, maybe, just a little steep, but overall not bad. If we're nit-picking, then maybe the front feet are a little small, but I haven't noticed it in person- only when dissecting the picture. Hopefully Carmen will chime back in with what she meant, because I'm pretty interested...