This is Leonardo as he is now… approaching his 6-month birthday soon!  

Leonardo is quite the charmer, mischievous adventurer, and athlete. He had his first vet visit this morning and is in excellent health.

He’s already speaking Italian, solving trigonometric equations, and writing a book about the laws of wirehair physics.  

Take care!

Cordiali saluti,

Toni 

Hi there, Bill & Susan,

Hope you are doing very well!  

Proud owners of Mister Peanut now 15 1/2 and Frank E McWeiner, 3+ – remember Frank E’s drop off day – a day we’ll all never forget – the first “stay at home” day of the Corona.  We broke the rules and left our homes, and it was the best thing that ever happened to us.  Frank E is the smartest, most lovable, friendliest, caring, and well-trained dog we’ve ever owned – and a very athletic ball fetcher too.  I’ve never had the opportunity to be a stay-at-home dog mom and Frank E had the benefit of work-from-home parents since the day you dropped him off (!) so he has a bond unlike any other.  

Today, we were at an antique fair 60 miles from our home and spied the CUTEST wild bore pup we’ve ever seen and immediately rushed over to get the scoop.

Well, turns out she is also named Frankie and one of yours – six months old, and the couple says they only got ‘er because someone changed their mind. This Nuforest  Frankie girl is so darn cute! We can’t get her out of our minds.  

I was curious to know if this 6-month-old wild bore Frankie is related to our Frank E whelped 1/20/20 Lyons Mane/Canary in a Kohl Mine.   I know how hard it is to “make” these.  I remember seeing some wild bore in Mister Peanut’s lineage.

We still have three dogs – the two weiners and the Welsh Terrier. Two seniors is hard to manage, and we never planned to have three dogs for this long.  Peanut is definitely a trooper – still suffering from his mystery sinus/coughing problems for four years now but doesn’t want to miss out, I guess. 

When we are down to one again, I’ll be wild bore huntin’!!!

Nicole

Bismarck all tucked in.

Hi Bill, nice chatting this morning. Here’s my Daisy at 10 months. She loves playing fetch with her ball. 

LC

Dear Bill and Susan

Here’s a recent pic of Buddy (Der Beste Fuand Des Mannes). He’s still so sweet and loves people and visits those who serve.

5 yrs 10 months old
Love looking on your website every so often.  I trust you all are doing great
Lisa

One of his accomplishments last year was killing a rat 🐀, bringing it through the doggy door, and swinging it’s tail like he was a cowboy 🤠 😂.  He will be visiting our Military and Firemen as soon as we feed them and visit the Fire Stations in our city as we take Thanksgiving meals to each station.

He absolutely loves a retired Police Officer I see weekly with his wife and has to lick the Officer’s ears every time he sees him 😂.

The Postman is still a robber to him 😂 as he vocalizes his bark to let him know not to enter our house.

Learned to swim and loves it! He suddenly loves to swim now at our daughter’s pool in Temecula when my husband is in the water.

Hello! I got Vienna from you guys last November. I just wanted to let you guys know she’s doing great! It was her 1st birthday 2 days ago. She has such a nice, fun personality. I’ve been hand stripping her and she’s such a good girl on the grooming table… she’s a natural! She got spayed a couple months ago and is in great health! Thank you so much for my little baby!

Skylee V.

Here is Murphy Brown at 7 months. Weight:  11.8 pounds.  Murphy is thriving.  She likes people, loves children and likes other dogs.  She is very playful and barks with authority.

John and Dyan Q. and  Sarah T.

Dear Susan and Bill,

We are sad to tell you about the death of our beloved Persie, whom we brought from your kennels to our home in April of 2010.

After a lot of research and a good bit of positive word-of-mouth input, my husband Del and I drove from Dana Point to Ramona to “look” at your available puppies.  No intention of bringing one home that day but when Del saw the sweet, shy, scared little black and tan wire coat nestled against her two rowdy, adorable redhead brothers, he said “here she is.”  You then brought Persie, 10 weeks old, out to the open lawn, first time she’d been outside.  I lay down on the lawn and she ran to me, which you said was an excellent sign.  We loved her right away.

We brought her home, socialized her in an extremely social cul de sac filled with dog-lovers and children eager to puppy-sit.  We christened her Persis, beloved of God in Persian, and she became the reigning queen of our home and of my extended family.  As my brother fondly recalls, all of the other family labs (many of them), oodles and rescues “kissed the ring” while Persie held court from my lap or Del’s during family events.  

I remember you, Bill, proudly holding her straight that first day, showing us how to look at her excellent traits and good breeding.  You also assured me, when I told you I was interested in temperament above all else, that I could put my hand into her mama’s (and all of your other nursing dogs’) pen and she would just lick.  All of these years with Persie, I remember your words and took comfort and delight in your careful breeding of our wonderful animal as she lived up to everything we could have wanted: she was playful (she was a fierce ball-chaser and adored gutting her many toys), regal, unbelievably good with our tens of grandchildren and young nieces and nephews, social, adventurous, possessive in the best way, loving and very much her own person.  In other words, a lady in every way.

We did our best to train and care for her and she was wonderfully healthy until this year.  We noticed her slowing down a bit after Christmas, as expected.  She was deaf and sore from her years of running. It was when we returned home from a Texas graduation in May that I felt there was something more going on.  I took her to the vet where she stayed for a day of testing and hydration and it was discovered that something had attacked her liver and it was fierce.  Her bilirubin was at 7.9 when it should’ve been at .5.  For the next (last) six weeks of her life, she had the constant care, intervention and supervision of our beloved vet partners, specialists, local urgent care and her amazing minder who came all day everyday the days Del and I were at work.  

She was perfect to the end.  Her last day, Thursday, June 29, after Del had spent the night on the floor with her, she awoke unable to stand, walk, eat or hold it.  We dropped Persie at Estrella Veterinary Hospital with Drs. Wendi and Julie for another day of intervention and assessment.  Julie called me at 3:30 p.m. to tell me that she knew little Persie couldn’t fight any more.  We drove straight home and spent our last hours cradling her in our arms.

We loved her so much.  Del did not grow up with dogs the way I did and the opening of his heart to this precious animal was amazing to witness.  She was emotional glue in our home, even more so when we’d done all of our raising of the grandchildren, nieces and nephews and were senior empty-nesters.  You know what it’s like to love and lose a beloved dog.  We are crushed but so full of love and gratitude for Persie in our lives.  

Thank you both for the gift of such a beautiful little soul.  She meant and means everything to us and we gave your creature as good a life as we knew how.  We will always miss her, love her and be thankful for our Persie.

My hope is that someday, we will be back to see you.  It may take a while but it’s cheering to know that you are there, doing all of your good work to bring forth exceptional animals.

Sincerely,

Brigit M.

The BEST dog EVER!!! Thank you endlessly!!!

Best to you and Susan.  

Bobbie F.