While I wait for official online confirmation on AKC’s site, you knew I’d just have to look up and post these shots from the Onofrio Dog Shows site, didn’t you?

APDT has trial records online as well, so I have been checking for Freya’s scores as well. They have posted updates for many of the January trials already and it looks like they are almost up to our trial weekend.

Now for the answers to questions that have, or have not yet, been asked.

Axel needs to go for his OFA cardiac certification. It is the only essential health test that he has not done yet. Although we may do it sooner locally, it is tentatively planned for a cardiac clinic at a show in April. Whenever and wherever it is done, it will be done by a board-certified cardiologist and we’ll also do a Doppler as well as auscultation because he is old enough that it can be used to rule out SAS.

Axel is already listed as a stud dog in The Total Rottweiler Magazine and on Rottweiler Nation, but he won’t actually get to be one until all of his health testing is complete.

Also on the breeding thing: Dan and I got our first purebred Rottweiler 16 years ago. Since then, we have owned six Rottweilers. We have never bred a litter of our own, nor have any of our males sired litters raised by others. We have never had an accidental breeding (and may I say that I no longer believe that some people’s accidents are as accidental as they say). We make sure our dogs get the best of care and appropriate show, sport, and/or obedience training. We have donated time and money to Rottweiler and all-breed rescue, and one of our own Rottweilers was rescued as a stray (we’ll always love and miss you, Missy). Regardless of whether Axel ever sires a litter or not, our actions now and in the future are not the cause of dog overpopulation. So don’t kill my joy with any breeder-hating crap, please and thank you.

Now I really should get on with those Freya videos!

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