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Lauren: Canterbury's Expectation CD I got Lauren, a Golden Retriever, when I was 14. Though we purchased her from yet another backyard breeder, I was careful to temperament test every puppy "lead" that my parents would drive me to, and to take my time picking out a puppy. I temperament tested five litters before finding Lauren--my first "perfect score" on the test. She definitely lived up to the score, being a very sweet, smart and gentle dog. Lauren was a super pheasant dog (back in my pre-vegetarian and pre- |
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Marty: Morgan of Canterbury Marty, an English Springer Spaniel, was the result of my 5-year campaign of begging to get a dog to show in obedience. As soon as I got home from school each day, Marty and I immediately went for a several-hour long walk in the neighborhood fields, forests and ravines, training as we went. Marty learned to do many tricks and obedience commands, and was a super athlete, easily jumping across our 4' high, 3' wide hedge on command. We even invented our own version of tracking: I made my mom run barefoot through tall corn fields dropping biscuits as she went! Marty was hit by a car before his second birthday when my father decided to take him on a midnight, off-leash jog by a busy road. |
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anti-hunting days…), and was also a solid obedience dog, once being the only dog at a trial to hold her "sit-stay" when a squirrel ran across the ring. I could only afford to show one day each year, so it took two years to get her three CD legs! When I left for college, Lauren was adopted--as planned in advance--by the Renstrom family, where I kept in touch with her until her death many years later. |