Maki Go

Just realized I never posted about Maki on the blog.
She was bred by Nidai Iwahori Sou, and she's out of Kotofusa x Koharu. http://www.shikoku-pedigree.com/details.php?id=64145
She's a product of four lines of Shikoku, and while all are not completely unrelated to each other, she looks like she's got a pretty good amount of diversity going on.

 She's a nice female, pick of her litter and we'd kept her for show/breeding, but due to personal issues she became available. It's not all that often that this happens, so I went and picked her up right away and took her to get her hips checked.

Tada! I can count on one hand the number of Shikoku I've seen with hips like this. Lucky find, and it was really hard to decide on where to send her. I did consider keeping her since she's got a terrific temperament as well, but I've just cut down numbers at my house, and we've got a lot of litters on the way this fall/winter. One of my mentors once told me that you should not be selfish and keep all the good dogs for yourself. Share the joy, share the dogs! So, I sent Maki to Hakuren Sou in Italy (by way of Finland).

After I'd picked up Maki she started to really blossom. When you're taking care of a dog every day you can see the subtleties of its temperament and structure, and I was more and more sold on Maki. She's going to turn out very nice when her coat comes all the way in and she fills out. She already looked so different by the time I left her in Finland that I sent Iwahori-san a picture to which he asked me who the dog was. The picture below was taken around 40 days after the first picture in this post.

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  1. Oh, that's stupendous luck with her hips. A fine looking dog both inside and out.

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  2. Oh, that's stupendous luck with her hips. A fine looking dog both inside and out.

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