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Here is the story of how we found our puppy!

My friend Andy from work and his wife had gotten a Brittany from a breeder in Mazeppa, MN back in July and over a month ago I asked him for their breeders information because we knew we wanted this type of dog!

Since we are close to moving into the house I thought I would send him an e-mail this past Monday to find out when they were having their next litter! Never did I think he would say they had one the day prior to me e-mailing him! They were born on Sunday, December 28th, 2008. He e-mailed me back with a picture of the mom with the litter and of the dad. Britta & Remmy are the parents names.


He told us how they reserve the puppy you want and will start to call her by her name so she knows it when she comes home! Of course we were interested in the puppies so I asked if we could come out and visit them on Saturday. This is their third for fourth litter and possibly their last for a while, so this must have been fate! They had 9 puppies - 5 boys and 4 girls. 7 of them are liver & white and 2 of them are orange & white. 3 liver & white girls and 1 orange & white girl.

We headed over to Mazeppa this morning, it's about an hour drive and we got to see the puppies! When we got there, my car couldn't make it up their driveway - we only made it halfway! So I got out there and Jeremy went to park the car. As soon as I got out the mom, Britta, came up to me and greeted me! Brittany's are very friendly dogs who are highly intelligent and obedient. Brittany's are easy to train and this makes them great for inexperienced dog owners!

We went inside and held the 4 girl puppies and tried to decide which one we wanted! Originally we wanted the orange girl because I was more drawn to the look of the orange and white Brittany's. She was the first born and is really attached to her mom. She is always eating and as soon as she gets taken away from her mom she starts to cry! She didn't have the best marking on her either - she is mostly white with some orange on her back half. She was also a more pale orange so she more than likely would not have become as red/orange as her dad.


Once we decided we would rather have one of the liver and white girls we had to decide which one! Out of the three, we picked the one with the best markings! Here are the two girls we did not pick.





Here is our little puppy we reserved!



We will be able to bring her home anywhere between 6 and 8 weeks old. 6 weeks old is the week after we move into our house, so we are going to wait until week 7 which also happens to be Valentine's Day! So about 6 weeks from now we'll be new dog owners! The breeder is going to send us pictures almost every week so we can see how she is growing and we were also encouraged to go out and visit her as often as we want! We are possibly going to go out there next weekend since we'll be busy the next few weekends with moving into the house!





They are getting their tails docked on Tuesday and their eyes should be open sometime this week so it will be a good time to go back and visit our little girl!