...more useless trivia about my dogs! If you forgot, I love trivia and when I have nothing better to post about, I like to post weird facts. :)
On April 8 (Luigi's birthday)
~Ponce de Leon was born
~Henry Ford died
~Robert E. Lee surrendered and ended the Civil War
On November 29 (Holly's birthday)
~NHRA funny car driver Ashley Force Hood was born AND actress Anna Faris was born
~Ralph Bellamy, an actor, died
~"I Want To Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles was released
On February 19 (Alana's birthday)
~Tommy Bennett of the Arizona Cardinals was born
~Bon Scott of AC/DC died
~the first anti-smoking ad aired on television
On December 6 (Peyton's birthday)
~murderer Richard Speck was born
~Roy Orbison died
~slavery was abolished in America by the 13th Amendment
~GDB breeder Nagel is Luigi, Holly, and Alana's great-grandfather and Peyton's great-great-grandfather
~I met Alana before I officially received her as my puppy
~when Peyton was a pup in the kennels at GDB, he was very shy and hardly ever came to the outside part of the kennel
~when I started raising I had six main goals: raise a guide, raise a breeder, raise one of my breeder's puppies, get a pup the day I drop one off, overlap puppies, and receive a Fun Day puppy
~so far I've accomplished two of said goals
~when I first joined my local puppy club we met at an elementary school, but we now meet at a fire station
~Alana is the only one of my dogs to have any training equipment besides a flat collar and a gentle leader
~the first GDB pup I ever got to handle was a black Lab named Lansing
~Luigi's litter was the last for his mother (Mavis) and the second-to-last for his father (Francois)
~I got my very first puppy assignment on May 18, 2005, which was an elimination day on American Idol
~I live in one of those dumpy towns you'd drive through while on vacation and think "Ew, I'm sure glad I don't live here"
~Luigi was the only one of my puppies I said goodbye to at GDB
~I said goodbye to Holly and Alana in a turnout under the freeway
~none of my dogs have gone back on their recall dates
~all of my puppies have gone to Los Angeles with me except Alana
~Peyton and his siblings were results of an artificial insemination
~all of my pups have had a theme song
~I'm going to throw my television out the window if I hear that Toyota Prius commercial that goes "dum-dum-dee dum-dum" one more time
~Peyton is my first puppy with a unisex name
~I received Holly on Billie Joe Armstrong's 35th birthday, which is obviously why she was so successful :P
Okay, I think I've bored everyone enough now. Wet puppy kisses to anyone who made it through this. :)
Elizabeth and Peyton