{"id":11841,"date":"2018-02-24T19:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandmbloodhounds.com\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2018-05-31T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:09:24","slug":"11841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandmbloodhounds.com\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"We have a new addition!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 20yrs ago, a very special baby we named Campbell (Sherick\u2019s Sweet Carolina Girl, MT) entered our lives and started it all. She had a very distinct look to her that as we fell in love with our new puppy, we undoubtedly fell in love with too. Though she was never bred, we owned her litter brother too, one of the world\u2019s best dogs ever, named Willie (Sherick\u2019s Sweet WM The Great). <\/span><\/p>\n

Willie was Michael\u2019s special boy, the boy he got for himself to add some testosterone back into the girl filled house. He came to us at 8mos old. He too had a similar look. Willie hated dog shows, we never forced the issue. We didn\u2019t care b\/c he was perfect for us. On a whim, before he was neutered, b\/c he was so special to us, we decided to have him collected and took him to see Stacey Toro Hathaway<\/a>. In the back of my mind, b\/c he wasn\u2019t a big champion show dog (though worthy of the title had he enjoyed it), there was probably a snowball\u2019s chance in hell it\u2019d ever get used. Fast forward several years, after Campbell and Willie were gone,Tammy Wirth<\/a> approached me about using it for her beautiful girl Dharma. We agreed. That litter produced \u2018Pebbles.\u2019 Pebbles went to live with theKocar<\/a>s out in WA. It has been fun to follow her and her siblings, though we didn\u2019t take one for our own for various reasons at the time. The Kocars bred Pebbles and produced a liver\/tan girl we fell in love with named Roxy. Willie\u2019s grandbaby Roxy has been special to us and has a soft spot with us. Just before Roxy\u2019s litter was born the day after Christmas, we found out that a very special breeding we\u2019d planned and worked hard on to get (to Roxy\u2019s beautiful uncle) did not work. It\u2019s one of the more frustrating moments in ethical breeding that we hit from time to time. God has his plan through the whole thing, sometimes it\u2019s just not clear in the moment. Yesterday it became very clear. <\/p>\n

On a 48hr round trip visit to Puyallup, WA this week, I met this very beautiful baby girl. It was afterMichael<\/a> and I had pretty much decided on her that it hit me. There she was – the treasured great aunt Campbell. It\u2019s like she was staring back at me. Time warped me almost two decades back in an instant to when we first laid eyes on our most beautiful baby Bloodhound coming out of her crate from Kansas that met us in RDU\u2019s Delta cargo. <\/p>\n

Breeding, I should say ethical breeding, is full circle. It\u2019s so special to see in generations the dogs you knew and loved come back out in the progeny. It\u2019s what drives us onward through the highs and lows that it brings with the journey. <\/p>\n

Tina and Frank, thank you. Thank you for allowing us to bring Sterling into our lives. She not only will be part of our family, she is Michael\u2019s next working partner.<\/p>\n

Michael has named his new baby girl from the Kocar\u2019s Hillbilly litter. Introducing … <\/p>\n

Kocar M&M\u2019s Living In High Cotton – \u2018Sterling\u2019<\/p>\n

(Mary Sterling was a cotton plantation owner in Louisiana)<\/p>\n

We look forward to her coming home next week!<\/p>\n

Pictured on the right is Sterling at 8 weeks old and on the left, her great Aunt Campbell also pictured at 8 weeks old.<\/p>\n

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