Pre-Thanksgiving Post

I just talked with Leeta's mom's (Koala) caretaker tonight.  She's very nice.  She was also Koala's puppy raiser and gave her up for her to go into advanced training.  Somewhere along the way, she was chosen to become a breeder and she eventually had 4 litters before she "retired" from being a breeder.  that was when her puppy raiser got her back for keeps.

While she was in the breeding program, she lived with another family who would take care of her while preggers as well as the puppies for the first 8 weeks of their lives.  Leeta was in the last litter for Koala.

I also found out that Leeta was a "light pink" pup.

There's a whole language to the CCI world.  Other than the commands for the dogs, I'm still really a newbie in this world.  I can read Dwarfish language in J.R.R. Tolkein's world though!

Anyway - a light pink pup in CCI terms would have a birth order of number 7.  When the pups are born they get marked two ways to keep them from getting mixed up.  This is important because temperament testing begins even before they get sent to separate puppy raisers.  The two ways are a simple collar of colored yarn and a splash of non-toxic paint just north of the tail.

The color/birth order goes: red, blue, purple, neon green, neon pink, brown, light pink, turquoise, orange, dark green, rainbow, rainbow, rainbow, and no color.

So Leeta was number seven in a litter of eight.  

And the "rainbow, rainbow, rainbow?"  Well each of the rainbow strings is reported to have a dominant color as in mostly blue, or a whole lot of yellow, etc.

Fascinating huh?