No, she is six years old, and I have tried to breed her, with no success.
I can't go into details here, but I ended up owning her by default, ended up with an awesome bird dog not by choice.
When I asked the guy who gave her to me for her papers, I received an official letter from an attorney, and magazine clippings, a pedigree history, and a plea to let him (breeder) oversee her breeding -- to perpetuate the superior breeding.
I took her and left her with him the first time she came into, her cycle. I picked her up later and she wasn't pregnant.
Later, a breeder way up in the northern U.S., who specializes in the Llewellyn and Ryman breeds, asked me to send her up there. I did, and she came back not pregnant.
Last June I tried to breed her again. No positive.
So, I got worried about maybe the guy who whelped her spaded her or something.
Took her to the vet, spent BOOKOOO bucks, and he found there is no physical reason she can't conceive. The first thing he mentioned is the dogs' thyroid. Her thyroid tests came out good.
So, I'm sitting here writing all this to you. If she was here she'd be scratching my leg, begging my attention.
I tell you, she thinks I am the KING of the World, and I am missing her. I am worried she is not warm, or comfortable (no wonder she thinks I am the KOTW), and I have about decided to give up on her breeding, have her spaded to lessen her chances of mammary cancer, not have to worry about the messy parts of her cycle, and maybe she'll chill out and let me work without demanding my attention 24 hours a day.
Dang, I miss her, hope she's okay.
Sometimes you just can't get them bred, for no particular reason that anybody can find. I think some of them wait for True Love (I had a little Siamese queen like that. The only explanation we ever came up with is that she had to like the boy or she wouldn't conceive.)
The only other possibility I can think of is AI (with fresh chilled, not frozen - better batting average.) Our Lab breeder has had pretty good success with that method.