HUNTER STITCH at DRAGONAIR

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Canadian Kennel Club: Draft Dog, Companion Dog, Canine Good Neighbour
Portuguese Water Dog Club of America: Working Water Dog
American Kennel Club: Rally Novice, Novice Agility Jumpers, Canine Good Citizen
Canadian Association of Rally Obedience: Rally Versatility, Rally Novice Team, CARO Rally Bronze Champion

Stitch is a black and white wavy Portuguese Water Dog bitch. Her breeder is Elaine Lyons Suter at Hunter PWDs in Michigan.

Her mother is Ch. Belouro Hunter's Tomgirl NAP, NJP, JWC and her sire is Cartmel Sea Comet.

At right, Stitch is using a trained paw-lift to interrupt my book-writing to ask me to get off my... chair... and please put her breakfast dish on the floor.
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Stitch does agility, drafting, tracking, obedience, rally, water trials, she's a service dog, and in her "spare" time she helps around the house...

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How I Spent My Winter Vacation
In San Diego they know how to make a dog park! Does it get better than this?

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Yes, it does!

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Second birthday picture.

Apparently when you cease to be a teenager, they expect you to get a JOB.

WHO KNEW??

And does that mean the old bag gets to retire? And could she possibly retire somewhere that isn't in MY cart?



Stitch at her first agility trial, the PWDCA American National Specialty show, Maryland, September 2005.

This sums her up nicely, I think. Why jump 20" when you can jump 24?

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Can somebody explain this to me?


What exactly does killing the bunny have to do with not getting anything in my Easter basket?

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3 days.

Can't you just smell the puppy breath?

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Of course I'm much older and more mature now.

8 weeks

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15 weeks.

Really, I don't look anything like I did then.

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6 months. Who would recognise me now? This must be as big as a dog can get! Do I get the car keys this week?

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I still chase my tail, but I'm smart enough not to catch it any more.




Too often.

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I got a nickname. GM. Cool, eh?

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Yep, General Manager. There's a nickname a girl could sink her teeth into.

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Then I found out GM stands for

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Gaping Maw

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I OBJECT TO THIS DEFAMATION OF MY GOOD NAME IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS!