Dakuya at Morning Playtime
10-19-25
2 years old
I hoped to get photos of my crew before the fall colors were over. Two weeks of heavy rain didn’t help any, but I finally had a day of decent weather when I was home, so I tried. There wasn’t a lot of tree color yet, but the grasses around my fence-post pile had dried to a beautiful light-gold color that sure captured the sunlight. I hadn’t been able to get a handyman all summer, so the grass hadn’t been cut down, which I usually do to prevent the dogs getting grass seeds in their ears. To get the colors AND have the sun behind me, I had to use an area that slopes downhill. It did make for some interesting photos of them coming uphill! I was pleased that most of my kids showed off the beautiful reach they have in front from their great shoulders – we breeders work very hard to get excellent 90-degree angle shoulder conformation!
Justice’s pups are very sweet and loving, to the point that they have to be in-your-face with kisses. Since babyhood, Dakuya has been particularly insistent about putting her head in Lovely’s mouth and she now shows the results: she has white hairs on her forehead and nose from all the times Lovely pressed down on her head and said, “Get out of my mouth and let me breathe.”
