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Am Can Ch Karrelene's
Island Treasure Am Can CD Am Can RN JH CGN
7/12/00
- 9/19/14
Treasure
was one of our first BBB (Beauty Brains &
Birdsense) winners. She had to earn an American
Championship, an American Hunting title and
an Obedience or Agility title. This is an honor
that not many Gordons earn.”
Treasure,
your passing has left a large hole in my heart
I had so hoped that we would have more time
together, but there is never enough time even
though we had 14 years and two months. You have
gone to be with your Dad and all the other Gordons
who left before you. Now you are young again
and bounding thru the fields looking for those
birds and cuddling with Dad. Treasure you were
well named, as you were such a Treasure. I look
at your favorite bed and expect to see you there,
but you aren’t. I miss sharing my morning corn
flakes or rice krispies with you. You always
took one corn flake or krispie at a time and
thoroughly chewed each one before asking for
another one, I think you liked to hear the crunch.
It doesn’t seem possible that you could have
chewed up those small pieces so thoroughly.
I have cucumbers sitting on the counter waiting
for you to beg for them, you so loved cucumbers
and their peels. I miss you following me all
over the yard while I worked and your eagerly
awaiting the cookie you knew would come. Even
when you could no longer get into the truck
or car on your own, you would beg to go for
a ride and liked to go to see your buddy, Nikkie,
for a grooming. Some day we will all be together
again.
Am Can Ch Warchant Penelope
AD Am Can CD Am Can RN JH CGN
10/24/03
- 2/27/12
Penny
and her brother Achilles arrived in Michigan
from Australia in February 2004 in subzero temps
and with a lot of snow on the ground and were
delighted with all that white stuff and went
racing thru it and tried to tunnel under it,
which should have given us a warning of what
was to come. They very quickly earned the nick
name, Demon Spawn, as there wasn’t much they
wouldn’t try. They loved racing thru the raised
Iris gardens grabbing the tops of the Iris’s
as they went racing thru, thereby pulling them
out of the ground and would then race back thru
grabbing more of the Iris’. They would pester
the adults until one of the adults would snap
at them and they would yelp and run only to
make another try at the adult in question. They
found ways to escape the fenced yard that a
rat would have had trouble going thru and would
race over to my girlfriend’s 40 acres away.
Once there they would go swimming in her pond
and chase the ducks on the pond. Penny would
swim to the middle and drive the ducks to shore
where Achilles would wait about 18 inches from
shore and then they would chase the ducks until
they flew off. One hapless duck thought it could
avoid them and just waddle off in a different
direction, but was soon caught by Achilles.
Penny wanted the duck too, so a tug of war ensued
with the hapless duck in the middle, luckily
it was rescued by my girlfriend in time and
other than a few missing feathers was fine.
The “Demon Spawn” then raced back home, as I
was getting ready to go get them, and Achilles
went under the fence and Penny went under the
drive way gate where there was only about 5
inches of clearance and she came up the drive
way at a run, hit the ground and under she went.
As the two of them were now about a year old
and constantly getting into trouble we decided
to separate them and not allow them to run together
anymore and that worked for Achilles as he behaved
perfectly when he wasn’t with his sister. Penny
was obviously the ring leader of the escapades
and she calmed down some too. When she took
Treasure for a swim at the pond and tried to
show her how to go under the driveway gate,
we got snow fence and fastened it to the gate
so that the snow fence dragged the ground and
that ended Penny’s escapes. She spent the better
part of a week check the gate and laying next
to it sighing, before she gave it up totally.
Penny even climbed halfway up a 10 ft Blue Spruce
to try to get the birds that were in it..........the
poor tree was not designed to carry her weight
and has not been the same since.
Penny
we loved you and your antics so.......once we
calmed down again. You loved the show ring,
the hunting, the obedience and rally rings there
was nothing you wouldn’t try. You could be frustrating,
like when I was teaching you to sit and you
just didn’t get it or so I thought until I told
your Dad to try.........I had been trying for
3 weeks and everything else you picked up in
one or two lessons.............and he took you
and said “sit” and you immediately did in a
perfect obedience position. I could have cheerfully
strangled you at that point, as neither I nor
the obedience instructor were able to make you
sit no matter what! After that I guess you knew
the jig was up and would sit every time with
no hesitation. I have many pictures of you doing
silly things like sleeping upside down with
feet in the air and your tail in the filled
water dish...........my sweet Penny you were
truly one of a kind and I miss you desperately.
You left us suddenly of diabetes after only
two days of our knowing about it. It was so
sudden, you had been fine and had just won in
the show ring two weeks before. Enjoy the lovely
fields and the other Gordons, one day we will
be together again.
Am Can Ch
Karrelene's Winter Fantasy
12/17/04 -
1/10/2012
OFA GSE-4392G24F-PI
Good
OFA GSE-EL362F24-PI
Elbows Normal
CHIC# 36766
Cerf GSE-788/2007--36
Our
sweet darling Ijana, you were always very much
daddy’s girl and always wanted to be in his
lap even if he was pulling weeds in the gardens.
He would sit on the borders or the ground and
into his lap you would go, you would even try
it if he were squatting down. At all the dog
shows you would climb into his lap and go to
sleep. You would guard Dakota, our grandson,
when he was young, if he camped at the shows
you shared the tent with him to make sure he
was safe and you loved showing for him. You
adored him even when he grew to be a big burly
football player, it made no difference big or
small he was still your Dakota. At 6 you were
diagnosed with bladder cancer and we had it
removed and for almost two years all was right
again and then it came back more aggressive
than ever and you left us just 12 days before
your dad did. We never told him, as we didn’t
want to upset him, we knew his cancer would
take him shortly too. We had you cremated and
put you in Dad’s lap forever where you always
wanted to be
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