In emails back and forth, we have assured the breeder, Rosemary Sexton, that we know about dogs — have raised puppies and house trained them, played with them, worked with them, and groomed them.
We’ve decided we want a water dog. A dog who is a size down from our previous dogs: a Malamute, a German Shepherd-mix, and a Chow-mix. A dog who will go for walks and hikes, and who will go with us on our boat.
We’ve met the local “Irish Water Spaniel people,” and they seem to like us well enough. Emails and phone calls have sped back and forth, questions and answers, and now everyone seems satisfied.
So Rosemary has agreed to send us our first IWS. We will name him Realta Rosario Cooper. Realta for the breeder; Rosario for Valentine’s Day (the puppy’s birthday) and the resort where Russ and I met; and Cooper because we want a “K” sound to start our pup’s call name.
[…] training to me. That will give him more time to work on our wooden Water Spaniel. And after all, wanting a dog who would go on our boat was the initial reason we chose IWS in the first […]