Rivet 16 Months and looking very handsome

Took this photo the other day at the park near boulevard, there were so many great shots to choose from but this one stood out to me as i wanted to show off his great outline and LOOOONNGG tail hehe. I love this dog, he is beautiful and was well worth the wait, Rivet is co owned with kim at Stonemills shelties. I fell in love with Rivets mom years ago and have been bugging kim for a libby puppy ever since haha.

Rivet just got some health testing done and his hips came back OFA prelimed EXCELLENT! and he is CERF normal and DNA'd as CEA/CH CLEAR.

Mac is OFA EXCELLENT (at 6 years!), thyroid full pannel normal, eyes CERF 2009 NORMAL.

He will be siring his first litter this August and will be bred to our older gal "Mac", rivet is a great narural stud dog and so i will see how a natural breeding goes if mac gives the o.k. :)

Puppies would be due on Halloween 2009, should be able to come up with some pretty neat reg names for them.

Rivet currently has 3pts from the sr puppy class his first weekend out, he has always done well against more mature competition and has taken many reserves and he will be back out in september to hopefully pick up some more points while he is still able to be shown in the 12-18 month class. He missed out this year on a few shows lately as him and his best buddy Slick do play awfully rough and slick managed to chew off and break a big section of coat off rivets topline, we call it the mohawk look, yikes!

Looking good my rivety rabbit!

Broken Paw...Broken dreams :(

Last night I i unloaded some stuff from the van and one of the items i brought into the house was my grooming table, it was folded up and i laid it against the wall for a moment to turn around to open the door to the computer room. In that split second it fell over and landed right on angus's right front paw, he cried out and was limping terribly, i put him on the counter and went over his feet, did not seem to bother him when i gently manipulated the joint and toes so i promptly put him in his crate to rest it.

About an hour later i checked on him and the foot was swollen right up, i knew it was broken, that night i put cold compress on his foot and he laid and rested. The next morning (today) i took him to the vet and sure enough he has fractured one of his middle metatarsus bones.

He was sent home today with a padded sock and was a trooper for Dr. Gerry, what a good boy. I have attached a photo of angus in his broke paw stocking.

Needless to say angus was supposed to trial in two weeks and only needed one more qualifying run to obtain his AGN title, he was to compete in Novice Jumpers with weaves also this year but now we will have to wait. Poor angus, how he loves agility, i am so disappointed and angry with myself, I had to let his teacher know tonight that he will not be attending classes out at the field for the remainder of the season, his class mates send their best wishes for a quick recovery :(

I sure wish i had've listened to my gut on this one and not leaned that darn table against the wall...a mistake i will not make again. Poor my little wolverine-coffee bean.