The pet home that I was hoping would love to have Lucy never contacted me back despite multiple attempts and messages.  She was never “out of the running” as a show-quality puppy, but up until this point this home had been very good about communicating with me and they seemed wonderful, so I really wanted to be able to place a puppy with them.  I honestly don’t care that they changed their mind or got a puppy elsewhere, but I do sincerely wish that they would at least have let me know about it rather than leave me hanging for days wondering whether she had a home or not.  Regardless, that’s neither here nor there.  So once it seemed that I didn’t have a pet home waiting for her, we looked at her again for show and the consensus was that she really has quite a bit to offer.

Mandy discussed it with Keith and Jo, who own Pilot’s beautiful sister Clem, and they are going to own and show Lucy.  She flies out next week to Spokane!

If you’re keeping track, that does indeed mean that 7 of the 9 puppies are in show homes.  It feels a little crazy to say that, and I certainly never expected or planned for it!  I feel *extremely* lucky that there was such a good amount of quality in the litter AND that I had so many people (and friends) who were interested in showing one of these babies.  Now I just keep fingers and toes crossed and bite nails that they all turn out well! 

"You help get mine off, then I'll help get yours off"

Nash puppy. I liked this picture because it shows his "reverse shiner", he has a ring of light reddish hairs right around his eye on the dark side.

"Maybe mama will help me..."

Lucy's ears were mostly up, but one was creasing a lot so I taped anyway.

I call this "Longing". Brady is a toy hoarder, but Lucy does her best to get him to share.

Pretty please??

LUCY

NASH

The photo above was the better picture of his front, but I loved the expression on this one!

Lucy!

Also, since I know some people really like to see names, I thought I’d post them in one list here:

VEGAS – Allegro Gambler’s Charm

LUCY – ???

JUNE – Allegro Celestial Charm

HARMONY – Allegro Good Luck Charm

CADE (now Nash) – Allegro Southern Charm

ECHO – Snowrose Charmed by Allegro

MILES (now Wall-E) – Allegro Modern Love Charm

MADELINE – Allegro Charmingly Mad About Madeline??  (name still under discussion, based on the Madeline children’s book series)

PICKLES (now Piper) – Allegro’s Bewitching Charm

Miles/Wall-E’s new people came today to pick him up.  Richard and Audrey live in Atlanta with Cosmo (from Sunkissed), so now will have a matched set of brindle Cardigan boys.  They chose the registered name of “Allegro Modern Love Charm”, going with the David Bowie theme of Cosmo’s registered name (Space Oddity).  Aren’t they cute?

Kate left with Junie B also.

Only 4 left!  Miles is going home this weekend, and Pickles Piper is heading on a plane on Friday.  Lucy’s placement is still being discussed and considered.

Today, I breathe.  I’m so grateful that Dixie and Kate were able to come and visit so I could get to know both of them better.  What lucky puppies I have!

…they might…

…be missed.

Yes, Dixie ended up with TWO puppies.  She chose Echo as her pick.  Kate chose June as hers.  Pickles Piper (aka Mini-me) goes to Traci, and that left Maddie without a show home.  Since Dixie was, ahem, fairly smitten with the little pistol, I’m not surprised at all that this is how it ended up. 

They got on a plane a little bit ago and hopefully will arrive safely in Seattle at o’dark thirty tonite.  Bye girls!

June

Echo

Madeline

Pickles (hmm must have lost her rear picture)