Ignatius Thistlewhite
Well, what a long week. It feels like we’ve been on a roller coaster.
After we weren’t able to visit one breeder last weekend to see their facilities, we did more web searching for a reputable breeder in the St. Louis area. We found a couple of people to contact on the American Spaniel Club’s website. I emailed Sandy Roland of S’Posan’s Cockers. Sandy is involved with the Cocker Spaniel Club of Easter Missouri as well as a breeder and agility trainer of cockers.
I ended up talking with Sandy for almost an hour one evening, and she recommended a couple of breeders in the area. After emailing back and forth with a couple of them, Jane and Paul Moody of Moody’s Countryside Cockers said they had a couple of pups available. Additionally, they would be in our area Wednesday evening and could bring them down for us to see.
So now we have a 6 month old parti-color cocker running around our house: Ignatius Thistlewhite, named for a character in the Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus
He’s really adjusted to our family well. Having a pup is quite different from Wuf when he older, and he can hear us!
