Today we celebrate two Bright Star Birthday boys. Take a look at the next two photos — they are both of Bright Star Zuber ❤️
Alison sends us this wonderful update on Bright Star Zuber:
Happy Birthday Fellow Bright Stars! Time has flown!
Mr Z is now a sturdy 26.5 inches and 96 pounds of mellow. He loves the snow and on cold mornings flies out the door and cavorts around the yard in pure delight. Likewise with romps along our dirt road. He and Kiri wrestle and play daily and he takes great pleasure with his assorted toys which squeak, grunt or otherwise provide gnawing pleasure. He loves to cuddle, resting his big head in my lap with a relaxed sigh.
We discovered last year that Zuber has Draft super powers which he turned into two Novice Draft legs at his first tests in October. I am looking forward to more Draft this year and exploring a collaborative brace.
In the meantime we continue to ease our way along the Obedience path and play Agility games. In Agility Z is teaching me to work hard to ignite his drive as he seems to lack the internal variety for racing through courses. He does LOVE tunnels however, always accelerating toward them and frequently inserting them into his own version of the course we ‘ought’ to be running.
We have so much wonderful living to look forward to with Mr Z.”
I have so much gratitude to Alison and Tom for giving their Kaibab dogs such wonderful lives — and for always keeping in touch ❤️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZUBER!
Also having a wonderful and beloved life is Fauci! Jack sends us this update:
Baby Fauci
“Fauci is pretty much grown up now, with his height and weight pretty stable. He is a very active and smart boy, at about 25 1/2" tall and 89 lbs. He is a handsome boy, with a lovely thick coat. Fauci is devoted to Maria and I, and is my constant companion. He likes to play with girl dogs and my granddaughters, and is becoming much more comfortable and confident around strangers although still a bit wary of hands and fingers reaching out to him. We will keep working on that!
In 2023 Fauci passed 3 Novice Draft tests and then earned his Draft Dog title in October at the Watchung BMD tests.. He has two legs towards his CD after three trial entries. He also has qualified in FAST and Novice Agility Preferred and is still in a weekly training group to get used to crowds. Mostly we spend our time on long walks in the woods and on carting outings in town and on my mountain trails. He has been quite healthy and fit, except for a tick-borne infection last year from which he recovered quickly with Doxy.
We are still playing in the remains of our winter snow here in the Catoctin Mountains. His main job is to keep the herds of deer away from our agility field and garden, which he does happily!”
It is good to know where Capella’s draft genes went — clearly to her brothers!! Sage, Zuber, and Fauci are exceptional draft dogs — great job, Boys!
Thank you, Jack and Marie, for your devotion to Fauci ❤️ He lives an interesting life, doesn’t he? HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAUCI!