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Happy 1st birthday Letty and the rest of the Vrijheid H litter - Geyser and Hector. They turned 1 yesterday but we were at the CPE Agility Nationals so I didn't get a chance to post on here.

Happy Birthday, Nice hat!

Happy Birthday !!!

How Cute !!

Yay! Happy late birthday Letty!

Happy Birthday, Letty!!! Hope you got some extra-tasty treats!

What a great picture!

I had planned to do a Happy Birthday post, too, but never got my act together...glad you did .

Time sure does fly, don't it?

lol you could post that pic in the "look" contest with the caption of I can't believe she is making me wear this!!

Kristie Elliott wrote:lol you could post that pic in the "look" contest with the caption of I can't believe she is making me wear this!!

I think she secretly likes wearing it, she looks pretty ha[[y with her new look

I am going to try to get Gwen to wear some doggles...

She was hopeful that if she wore it nicely she could eat it after the picture. She really wanted to eat the pink fuzzy stuff on it.

k9katet wrote:She was hopeful that if she wore it nicely she could eat it after the picture. She really wanted to eat the pink fuzzy stuff on it.

She and her sister are peas in a pod, no lie

Yappy (belated) Birthday!

I can't believe she sat there so nicely with the pink stuff on so you can take the picture! Extra treat please!

So, Heather...

How big is Letty now? Geyser is 21" and about 51 lbs. I'm so happy with her size! For me, it's perfect.

She's around there. I haven't measured her in awhile although I don't think she's grown much in a long time. I can't remember how much she weighed last time she was at the vet for heartworm tests. It was maybe 55. She was .6 less than Vada. I'll see if someone will help me with measuring on Thursday when Seven and Vada are at agility class. I figure that she's going to jump the highest, just like Vada. If you could get Geyser to shrink a tiny bit, you could get her into the 22" class in USDAA. That would be nicer on their bodies to jump lower. The downside is the huge class of Border Collies.

k9katet wrote:If you could get Geyser to shrink a tiny bit, you could get her into the 22" class in USDAA. That would be nicer on their bodies to jump lower. The downside is the huge class of Border Collies.

no lie

I ended up in the hospital with a bug last week so I missed agility class (and obedience class). So tonight I am going to try to measure her. I can get a weight on her at the vet or pet store too. I'm curious about both now.

I guess there are BCs in the 26" class too. A few measure in there but around here most of them are jumping 26" as they are competing on or hope to compete on world teams.

We measured her on a table with the official wicket thing. 21.5" Too bad she's not a little shorter. For AKC the 20" cut off is 22" but we won't be doing that for awhile.

Letty is 55.6 pounds. So now she weighs the same as Vada but Vada is 2" taller.

Very very late happy birthday to all the "H"'s: Letty, Geyser and Hector.

I believe that officially, the DS's get measured to the point between the shoulder blades. (and that would be just an inch or so more than the wicket shows) I never do, and I think it is hilarious, but that is how it is done in Holland? (Right, Marjolein?)

vneerland wrote:Very very late happy birthday to all the "H"'s: Letty, Geyser and Hector.

I believe that officially, the DS's get measured to the point between the shoulder blades. (and that would be just an inch or so more than the wicket shows) I never do, and I think it is hilarious, but that is how it is done in Holland? (Right, Marjolein?)

Right