True Champions!!

  This blog started in the spring of 1985.  I had waited 62 days finally the time had come Maite Penny was having puppies.  My friend Bob had  decided to breed his German Shorthaired Pointer.  I was excited, finally a hunting dog . I'll never forget Bob coming over and asking Pat, "are you sure that you want this pup"?  She might not have wanted the pup, I answered "oh yes she dose"!  And so our adventure started.
  Skeet our own GSP.  Skeet was not the dog that I would have chosen, she was the one that God chose for me.  Some might say dose God have to do everything for this guy?  Yes!!  If God isn't involved in everything, He's not involved in anything.  I wanted a white and liver pup, Ryan wanted a liver roan ticked pup, the man that had pick of the litter took Ryan's pup, Ryan took my pup, I got the left- overs, Skeet(Shady Lanes Skeeter Dee).  What a dog!  When she was a pup she would point butterfly's, she had a ear that didn't fold out completely at berth, she became our daughter's guard dog at night, she truly became one of the family.  And she was the best hunting partner I ever had!
  Being new to the dog world, I thought that I had to become involved in the AKC I thought that I needed a AKC champion, because I wanted to be a breeder.  Skeet never won a prize, but she was a true champion.
  Then phase two of our breeders life came into the picture Shady Lanes Nickalous (aka) Nick.  Nick also a dog that I wouldn't have chosen.  When I got Nick he was shy, and scared, as a stud dog most  breeders would have neutered him.  I think of the story of Jacob and how The Lord showed him how to breed the flocks of Laban.GENESIS 30; 37-43(KJV). When God has His Hand in something it becomes a success.  My friend Ron and I were hunting one day, and I asked him, what do you think of Nick?  "He's a athlete"!  Together Skeet and Nick produced 72 puppies, and they were all exceptional.  We received letter's from owner's that their puppies far exceeded their expectations. So in closing thank you God for letting us have the experience of Skeet and Nick, true champions made by You!