Talisman & Totem SportDogs

  Happy New Year!!! This year has started off with a bang, after 2024 ending with similar pyrotechnics. We are officially a Senior Home with 4 ancient and wise ones. 😊Sisters, Ffire and Ggrail turned 15 last November. Sisters, C'ura and Quechee turned 14 on 1/7/25. I love that they are all doing pretty well and enjoying their days. I do think quality of life and a dog having the autonomy to go throughout their day, is important. Each day is a blessing! Meanwhile, the rest of us keep on and living as best we can. Human health stuff not 100% is never easy to live with, but got to try. 💔💕💓 Deja vu from late 2019/early 2020-for friends that know what that means...ugggh! But, we persevere!! Amazed I can put a sentence together after average 2-3 hours sleep, over the last few months. Chronic pain is exhausting. As always, if I am awake-my mind races as new ideas and plans fly across it-especially in the wide awake wee hours and the fevers, uggh the fevers. Being on "crate rest...

12/21 UPDATES: Luckily nothing new to add to genetic issues, other than the newer, yet unpublished EOD (Early Onset Deafness) study/test that I and many Border Collie breeders have utilized since it became available. As part of a panel, it meant going back and re-testing many of my dogs, and as a result of discovering that Two Carriers had unfortunately been bred prior to the availability of this screening test-so far, so good! The test study and data has yet to be published, so until that is the case-it is another useful tool to use in planning breedings, but I am skeptical of why the Data has not been published, peer reviewed and publicly shared?? I am sure with so many testing their BC's, it is providing a greater sample base for helping try to identify more than the 4 markers currently in use. Hopefully, within this next year Wisdom/Mars will share that info, after buying out the original company. Right now, I wait. Careful, to use a clear/normal, but "show me your data...