Spur Pick Up Day...

Today's the day!!!  We picked up Spur from the breeder!
When we first got to the breeder's house, Spur was out, but very shy.  He wouldn't even come investigate us; he just stayed glued to Jeff.

We arrived at 1:00 pm and I knew we'd be there at least 3 hours.  We had a nice visit with Jeff.  We talked about all sorts of things from when he first started showing Aussies, how he met his mentor and kennel partner J. Frank Bayliss, to what kind of scissors we might need for thinning this guy's abundance of coat.

I was disappointed that Spur wasn't more curious about us.  He found all sorts of hiding places and kept his distance.

So, as I told you before, Spur's dad is the litter brother to my friend's dog Bummy.  (He wasn't home; he'd been shipped off to Italy to show for a few weeks.)  Well, Jeff also has Bummy's litter sister, Kitty.  Kitty was in the house; she had a recent litter that wasn't so easy on Jeff.  She needed an emergency C-section and then her milk dried up, so Jeff had to hand feed all the pups to keep them alive.  I was sitting on the floor, trying to get down to Spur's level so he could get comfortable with me when all of a sudden, I had a lap full of Kitty.  She didn't even introduce herself; just completely filled my lap!

Then it was time to meet Spur's siblings.  There were only 4 pups in Spur's litter.  One of each color.  Of course, Spur is a Blue Merle male.  He has a Red Merle sister who is going to Texas; his Black Tri sister is staying with Jeff and his kennel; He also has a Red-Tri brother who is going to Germany.

Jeff placed the pups on the floor and everyone started running around, jumping up to greet us.  By this time, Spur was among his siblings, feeling much more comfortable and he joined in the greetings.  Once all the pups had run around some, Jeff brought in their momma for us to meet.  This is Rapper:

Jeff had said that, since this letter was born, whenever people come to the house, Rapper would bark at them (to tell them to stay away from her litter.)  She didn't bark at us.  She must have felt we were appropriate to be around her litter.  That's good, because we were going to be leaving with one of them!

Everyone got put back up except Spur and we continued to talk.  Spur was finally interested in us!

When it was time to leave, Jeff put a leash on Spur for his first time ever and showed us how he "moves"... He's going to be amazing in the show ring!

Before we got in the car, Doug made a few more moves to get into Spur's space so that he'd be comfortable with Doug...

Hard to believe he's ours!!!