Health Testing
Hips: OFA GS-107633E24F-VPI Excellent
Elbows: OFA GS-45781F24-VPI Normal
Cardiac: OFA GS-BCA19724F-Practitioner-VPI Normal
Dentition: OFA GS-DE740/24F-VPI
Complete + Scissors Bite
Degenerative Myelopathy: Embark- Normal/Normal
Embark Panel- All Normal/Normal
Norma is a lovely red (saddle marked) sable out of our beloved Babsy v Littlehaus (Norma - Babsy - Yoko - May - Eyleen) and she is a great example of this powerhouse motherline going back to our foundation female Eyleen. Sired by Kiro and possessing many of his merits, Norma is an affectionate, playful, tolerant and kind hearted dog with her family. She’s easy to live with, super fun to train, and a good travel buddy.
Despite Norma’s large size she is quick and agile, fast enough to run down a squirrel, and an agile adventure buddy.
Norma is playful, tolerant and sociable with our other dogs, Beagles and Poodle included, and when we had cats she was only mildly interested in their existence. She’s a fantastic mother to her own puppies and a super nanny and teacher to any puppy.
Her DDR instincts surface as needed and she is naturally territorial of our house and yard, but still safe and welcoming to those we invite inside.
Norma’s passions include disc, fetch, squirrel chasing, any training games, and going on hikes and adventures. Her best friends are her daughters, Tango and Olive, who are almost always hanging out with her.
Norma‘s out cross pedigree is tail female our Eyleen mother-line. Her dam Babsy was half DDR through her sire (who goes to Zorro LaagerWall) while Norma‘s sire Kiro was modern German show lines through the outstanding producer Aladin, and his sire the super producing Tyson Kottersbusch. We love this blend of merits from Kiro and Babsy and we are super pleased with the absolute qualities of her progeny (such as our own Tango and Olive). Norma‘s progeny have consistently exceeded our expectations and we look forward to one or two more Norma litters as well as continuing her line through her daughters.
Structurally, Norma is a large, powerful, female with good feminine characteristics. She has a strong head, with level planes, strong upper and lower jaws, free of excess roundness, stop, or loose lips. Her neck is correctly angled and blends into a long, firm, and level top line free of any drop off. She has a croup of correct length and angle, a correct and free moving tail of correct length. Her fore-chest is pronounced, sufficiently wide with a long underline and good spring of ribs. Her front is very good, straight, with firm correctly angled patterns, tight feet, and a free reaching gait. Rear angulation is very good, very tight, with correct hocks, broad well muscled thighs, and powerful driving action free of any looseness or crossing over.
She is an excellent example of the breed standard, free of extremes, free moving, tight and dry.
Norma and her mother Babsy
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