Swirl showing her gorgeous face as she turns 7 weeks old
pictures taken on 12/20/07
As a puppy Swirl was the cutest merley
fluff of fur I had ever seen. Much to my delight and entertainment she
demonstrated her keen intelligence as my first puppy training experiment using a
clicker. She enjoyed the clicker and would offer so many cute behaviors with
such enthusiasm! I only wish I could have captured some of her cute puppy
tricks for You Tube. She had the fastest puppy back up across the kitchen floor
that I've ever seen as she would scoot backwards in a little pile of merlie
fluff. I still laugh as I picture her doing this for me before I would leave
for work in the morning.
She has grown into a lovely merlie girlie with that same affection, enthusiasm
and intelligence. She has the size and body type that I love for agility. She
is very agile, athletic and has a very long stride length yet can turn on a
dime. Her intelligence and enthusiasm for training is wonderful and a great
asset in training. Most of all she loves to be my buddy and when I let my dogs
in the house from running in the pasture, she is always the first to circle back
with a big grin on her face to say "Hi Mom, how was your day, let me just hang
out with you" She is a great cuddle bunny in bed and stretches out full length
to enjoy watching TV with me, yet when we go out to train, she has a great "on"
switch with her enthusiasm and joy of learning and pleasing me.
Thank you Jan for letting Swirlie Merlie come into my life.
Gail Smith
Rochester, WA
Swirl is full litter sister to Fusion and younger sister to Denim
first time jumping with height at 20 inches
view Swirl's OFA prelim hip xray Swirl is CEA normal by parentage and CERF clear
first time jumping with height at 24 inches...she easily sails over! Swirl is a very natural and easy jumper!
above jumping pictures were taken on 6/1/09 and this is the first time ever she has seen a jump!!!!
Swirl showing her wonderful structure as she turns 10 weeks old picture taken o 1/13/08
Swirl pictured free standing at 1.5 years of age showing off her gorgeous structure! Swirl roughly measures 20.5 inches
Swirl just loves to run full out! Picture taken on 6/1/09 at 1.5 years of age
