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None of my dogs have ever won diddly squat yet I wouldn’t trade any of them for the world.

However, their aunts/sisters/mothers/fathers are quite famous in the Ibizan Hound world.

Which dogs were luckier?

Those who are crated and flown/driven all over creation to get that ribbon, rarely seeing “home” or their owners or mine, who are with me 24/7,just being dogs.

Djinni’s sisters and brothers are regularly splashed on Canadian magazine covers yet she was ‘pick of the litter’.

She’s happy right where she and with who she is.

And so am I.

*If* I ever find a suitable bitch for Odin I intend to have a litter because I don’t ever want to be without at least a part of him in my life.

I can’t keep all the pups, if it’s a large litter so I have at least 4 people waiting for that day to come.
[my doctor, my vet, a vet tech and a physical therapist]

The price of those pups?

*Nothing*.

They will be too precious to me to put a price upon them.

They will be given to their new owners with myself as co-owner in the event that, God forbid, something happens to them the dog will automatically be returned to me.

I look at the photos of where Djinni’s relatives live and I see a room full of crates, walls festooned with obscene amounts of ribbons and I look at my own home...dogs lounging on their sofas, the floors festooned with “ribbons” of paper towels and stuffies they’ve happily shredded and dog toys strewn about like some squeaky minefield.

We are content.