Good luck with the visit!
You have peaked my interest mentioning riding with your gelding as well...does your Dobie ride with you?
Silly question (I think..) Because you are getting a standard, I assume your dog will be walking/running while your ride, but I have to ask, since every once in a while you see those dogs who like to ride behind the saddle...(or surf, or whatever, hehe)
I am also just curious because I am considering a partial lease on a horse in the summer....I wouldn't trust my girl now off lease, so I am just wondering about the logistics!
LOL, yes, the dogs walk/run with the horses. Jade, my Dobe, gets all excited when she sees me getting the saddle and gear out to get ready to ride. The standard pup will walk/run also, too big to be on my horse with me..lol. BUT, my toy is going to ride. I already bought a carry bag for him to ride in with me. Looking forward to spring when I can go out riding again. Sigh... I like winter but wish it was two months shorter!!
Your dobie is just beautiful, what a gorgeous girl

and Phoenix looks great too. I had big plans to build stables and put up internal fencing and get myself another horse when we bought this property but now we don't have enough time or money to do it :sad: Can't believe I have 46 acres and still no horse!!!
Thanks for the compliments! I am sorry your plans have been put on hold for a while. I know the economy is sooo bad right now, it makes it so much harder. I hope you can get your dream horse not too long in the future!
am waiting patient to see pics of the new pup
Ok, ok. LOL. Been WAY too busy the last few days. Went to look at the pups on Thursday, an almost 6 hour trip one way, so we didn't get back till midnight. Then had to get up early on Friday, go get all the stuff for my daughter's baby shower on Saturday, then go get a load of hay for the horses, then prep all the food/stuff for the shower. In the meantime I had a new pup to settle in. And, yesterday was the shower.
So, with no more ado, this is the girl. She is 12 weeks old, a chocolate, has some good pedigree behind her. Both parents have all tests done, as do the grandparents, etc. She is a very, very dark chocolate, not so dark as to look black though. Her father is an Italian import, this is the link to the kennel he came from and has his mom's and dad's photos on it, but I will post the pics...
http://www.samarcanda.net/Export_1448268.html and this is the link to her father's grandfather...
http://www.geocities.com/windfallsp/BooPage712.htm
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more pics in following post....