It’s been a rough year here at reddogs HQ… I lost Nicky to complications of a perforated stomach in May 2024, then lost Pete very unexpectedly to complications after a splenectomy in September. For the first time in over 30 years, there hasn’t been a Toller in my house. It’s weird, and I don’t like it.<\/p>\n
I took awhile deciding what I wanted to do, and spent a lot of time snuggling the cats while deciding if I could just be a cats-only household, then decided that I really miss having a dog, and specifically having a Toller. Then it’s like my Facebook feed read my mind and it was full<\/em> of Toller puppies. One awesome breeder in particular was posting lots of updates about her current litter, and when I commented (mostly jokingly!) that she wasn’t helping my Puppy Fever, she said “You know… I might be able to do something about that next summer…” and that started the long chain of conversations about the potential for a new puppy for me!<\/p>\n So now we’re playing the waiting game… currently waiting to see if mom-to-be cooperates (she should come in heat sometime in June or July). Money is stashed away in a puppy account. Show handler has been found, because I’m an utter klutz in the show ring. LOL! Working on getting hooked up w\/ a local field training group. Basically, doing all the “prep work” that I can to keep me from just sitting around going “IS HE HERE YET?? IS HE HERE YET?” for the next several months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a rough year here at reddogs HQ… I lost Nicky to complications of a perforated stomach in May 2024, then lost Pete very unexpectedly to complications after a splenectomy in September. For the first time in over 30 years, there hasn’t been a Toller in my house. It’s weird, and I don’t like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}