Wildflower Birthday Week continues with Lupine and Buttercup.
We start with Lupine…
Baby Lupine
Alex shares (and likely we can all agree): "It’s hard to believe the Wildflowers are already a year old, time has flown by!
A little bit about Lupine’s personality: she is so full of energy and genuinely one of the most athletic Berners I’ve ever known.
She is constantly flying through things, over things, around things etc. (usually being chased by one of our other dogs, who can’t catch her).
She is so full of life and always happy, bouncy and wiggly.
Lupine may also be one of the most intelligent dogs we’ve raised. She picks up on things so naturally and you always get the impression that she just “knows” what is going on no matter what in a very fluid, dynamic way — her mind is always working.
Anyways, I don’t want to ramble too much, there is so much more praise I could give her.
She has made a perfect best friend and companion. Happy birthday to all of the Wildflowers!”
Thank you so much to Alex and all of the Graffunders for giving Lupine such a happy and interesting life.
And now we get to find out what is up with Birthday Buttercup!
Baby Buttercup
Georgia (and Patty) send us this update…
“When I think of adjectives to describe Buttercup, the words that come to mind are clever, bright, loving,quick-witted and smart. She is also cute as a button, always cheerful and happy but overall I think her defining attribute is her intelligence, and secondly is her sweet disposition.
I've had dogs my whole life (well, not quite my whole life...I grew up in a family of nine children and my mom always said that if we got a dog we'd have to name it "Mother" because that's who it would replace :-) but as for the rest of my life with dogs, Buttercup is la crème de la crème.
We've been doing a little of everything with Buttercup; scent work, tracking, agility and obedience and going forward, who knows? We may add rally, barn hunt, dock diving and/or FAST Cat. She loves going to scent work classes with her brother Zeus. They are so excited to see each other every week that we have to arrange a romp through the hay field before class so they can concentrate.
It's been difficult for us not being able to go to shows. I think Buttercup would be ready to compete in scent work if there were any trials. (sigh!) She doesn't mind though, she's more than happy to play the "Find it!" game around the farm.
In a celebratory show for the wildflower birthday, the pasture is awash right now with buttercups and daisies. How perfect!
Here's to many more years with this little firecracker. She puts the wild in wildflower. Cheers!!”
I knew that Buttercup needed an extra enriched life and she sure has it — much gratitude to her Georgia and Patty for being exactly what Buttercup deserved.
It is so fun to see these young dogs — still puppies but big ones!
Have a wonderful day.