Candy and Ruffy Litter

Candy and Ruffy Litter Certification

This Litter is Certified clear for NCL but will be carrier for PRA. Ruffy is clear for PRA but sadly Candy tested Affected for PRA. Because of Candy's Affected status her litters will all be sold as Pet/Companion only! Since we will ONLY breed her to a clear dog her offspring will all be carriers, none clear and none affected. They will make fine pets and never develop the disease but we will not sell them for show or breeding. Candy's affected status means there is a strong liklihood she actually will develop the disease and ultimately go blind. Sadly this is the penalty we all pay when we acquire a dog from a breeder who does not test. It would be easier here to simply sell her offspring as pet/companion and not say why but if you can't trust us to be honest about bad news how can you trust what we say when it is good news. A puppy from this litter can be used in a breeding program by a breeder who is willing to test the resulting puppies and keep a clear puppy from that litter. Since DASHaHOUND has no control over what other breeders do we will not sell for breeding purposes, however it is always possible we will keep a puppy ouselves and breed her to clear in order to get a clear puppy for our own program. For details on what this means see DASHaHOUND GUARANTEE

This litter will be an all long hair English Cream litter. For those who do not know, Black and Cream, Shaded Cream and Light cream are all full English Cream colors. The Chinchilla gene which creates the English Cream color has no effect on black. So, if both parents carry for Black and Cream there may be a black and cream puppy.

Candy and Ruffy Litter

Candy and Ruffy Litter projected for mid November 2009

Candy and Ruffy Litter (Planned). While this is not one of our strongest pairings by pedigree, Ruffy is a Ralines Sire line with a total of 17 champions in his 6 generation pedigree. Ruffy is better then Preston, his father. Both of these dogs were chosen for their own looks. Candy comes from a line which has never been shown. She has the right stuff and is totally beautiful. She does have one champion way back in her pedigree. So the litter boasts 18 Champions. She is a rare English Cream Dapple. This litter will be sold as Pet/Companion only (see above). PEDIGREE

DASH OF CANDIED DAPPLE HOME PAGE DASH aHOUNDS DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH MLEC

"CANDY" at 9 weeks "RUFFY" at 7 weeks

DASH OF CANDIED DAPPLE MLECD DASH OF HARLEQUIN MOON MLBC

Shown here as 7-8 week puppies to give you an idea what your puppy might look like about the age you bring it home. You can learn more about either parent on their own page and also see them in action in the slide flash show.

Candy and ruffy are very different in temperament. Candy is sweet and pasive, Ruffy is all boy. Candy was going to rule the other puppies until she got in with some older puppies. Then she held her own but could not have her way. Ruffy can hold his own with anyone and is nice to the girls and younger males but is competitive with Harley. Both of these pups are loving and have no bad habits. Candy would be classified as Mature and Ruffy as Active.

There are no guarantees and individual puppies can vary greatly but we expect their puppies to be a mix of ACTIVE and MATURE. By MATURE I mean they will hold still to let children pet them and behave well very early. Many puppies are so active and silly they can not be much company for a year or longer. Active puppies are good for young children because they wear each other out but are harder to deal with for the first year. Even mature puppies have abundant energy and can play and fetch, etc. it is just that they will calm down and hold still. Active puppies are almost always in motion. Neither of these puppies were hyper active or lethargic as puppies. Both were (are) mild mannered, full of life but able to settle down, not silly.

We try very hard to give each owner a realistic expectation of the puppy they adopt. We do not have any mean or ill tempered dogs. We will not tolerate a trouble maker and certainly will not include it in our breeding program, no matter what the pedigree. Some bad or aggressive behavior is learned and some inherited, we try to start you with the best temperament possible to give you that head start.