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STANLEY

Brenda's Yankee Doodle Stanley CDX RE MX MXJ NF TSAD TGIII CGC

There came a time when I suddenly realized that my little Ticket was going to be four years old and needed either to be bred or spayed. Not wanting to end the three generations of Master level Maltese, I decided to breed her. The male I chose was a gorgeous Maltese out of Texas named Champion Sun Isle's Risque' Rules a.k.a. Risky. Risky's little swimmers were flown in and dropped into place (surgical insemination)...poor little Ticket had no idea what had just happened to her.

Two months later, Ticket began to have contractions. We rushed her to the vet's office and a C-section was in order. My friend Karin joined us and took pictures of the blessed event while my vet's wife (Linda) and I scrubbed two beautiful puppies...a boy I would later name Stanley and a girl named Elle. Ticket loved to attack her toys and always went for the face with such viciousness...so you can see why I was a little concerned with her first encounter with the pups. As she began to awake and notice the pups, I heard a low grrrrrr coming from her lips. It would take over 24 hours before she began to clean them and care for them. It took me nearly two weeks before I could fully trust her with them. On the way home from the vet's office, Stanley tried to climb out of the container I put the pups in...something his mother had tried when she was born.

Both Stanley and his sister have excelled at agility training except Stanley follows directions while his sister chooses to blaze her own path around the equipment. Stanley is also taking obedience lessons with Sandy Burns and is being trained in Rally. Currently, Stan's training has included Utility exercises such as the metal articles. He is able to distinguish the metal article I have scented out of a total of four articles. He retrieves the dumbell and gloves and is great at doodling.

Stan's sister has moved to Gig Harbor, Washington to live with a family who absolutely adores her. She is going to be trained in obedience and will begin agility training with Susan Perry, an outstanding agility trainer in that area. My prayers are with them all because she had flipped me the paw on more than one occasion which is why I decided to place her.

Stanley entered his first Obedience/Rally trial in February 2006. He placed 2nd in Obedience and Q'd in both Obedience and Rally both days. In April 2006, he attended the Pair A Dice Cluster in Las Vegas where he finshed his CD and earned one leg towards his CDX. He finished his RN and went on to Q the remaining three days in Advanced Rally for his RA title. In September of 2006, he attended the American Maltese Speciality and participated in an agility/rally seminar that his mom was in charge of. The next day he went High-In-Trial at the AMA Obedience Trial and picked up his 2nd CDX leg. He finished his CDX in January '07 at Orange Empire. Stanley is so eager to work and is such a treasure to partner with. I hope I can do him justice.

P.S. He was four yrs. old on July 5th.

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