Kenya

Roycroft Heartsong Kenya

Kenya is just about a year and a half old now. 

She has A PRETTY HEAD!  Yay!  I keep hearing that it's easier to breed a nice head than a good front and excellent shoulder layback, but not for me.  She is a very promising youngster -- internationally renowned  judge Frank Kane, who will be judging Best in Show at Crufts in 2012, just put her first in her class at the CKCSC specialty in Indianapolis in April.  Plus he told me the next day how much he loved her topline and movement.  Go, Kenya!

But actually I did not buy Kenya just because she is beautiful -- I bought her for her pedigree.  (Though I wouldn't have bought her if she'd been plain, I admit.  Also she is completely free of freckles, which is a plus.)

Kenya combines Sanickro and Homerbrent lines and should be long-lived and healthy, not to mention a producer of puppies with those qualities.  Besides that, Kenya's mother has a far better record as a producer than my girls, who have been very disappointing with their small litters and frequent whelping difficulties.  Hopefully Kenya will free whelp litters that include at least an average number of puppies!

Depending on various factors, I may breed Kenya as early as December 2011.  She will be 25 months old at that time, so I can have her heart, eyes and hips done (can't do the hips until they're two).