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Hi Shelley, An update on Nemo for you. He celebrated his NINTH birthday in August and knock on wood seems to be ok. A touch of pannus but it's under control. Other than that he is still is usual inimitable self. Still does his bark and hold for an oven mitt :]. I have no clue how to post pictures so I will email you one that hopefully you can post. I will also put in a link to another picture. I share Nemo time with Julia since three years ago. Right after my mom died, I took care of him and Julia's old girl Cora while Julia went to Germany to trial in the world tracking championship. When she came back I took them home and stayed the weekend. On Monday, I'm packing the car with the doors open and in he climbs and says I'm going with her. As you probably know he's always been a very empathic little soul understanding those(human or animal) who needed to be taken care of. I had been taking care of my mom full time for several years and was physically and emotionally exhausted so I think he thought I needed someone to take care of me. Of course it might have also had something to do with the fact that earlier in the day he had gotten up on the good dining room table to look out the window at the goings on and Julia had gone in and given him a what to do, :)) so he may have figuratively packed his little bag and said all righty then I'll just leave home. As you can see he's still a character. I'm up at Julia's a lot since we co own a bitch together and she helps me train so he gets to be "home" a lot which he enjoys but he always makes the choice to climb back in the car. :)))))) He grew to be about 30 pounds. When he came to me he was going thru a tough patch with his skin and hair as most dwarfs do despite the excellent care he got with Julia. I'm a great believer in supplements to started him on some to get rid of the skin yukkies and in doing so accidently grew hair - so now he's the Don King of the GSD world(the hair sort of sticks straight out like Don's). It also made a great difference in his ability to tolerate temperature extremes.

Thirty pounds?? Isn't that pretty huge for a dwarf? Wow! Would love to see pics if possible!

I have a pic of a dwarf gsd called Nemo hanging onto a normal ones tail as they ran along that someone sent me some years back. I bet he's the same one, hope so as it would be nice to know the little fella is still well. Margaret N-J

I have had GSDs for a very long time and I will tell you I would be very happy to own another Nemo whether pint size or normal size. You were very right when you said "they were feisty and brave, fearless" but as I noted above he also carries that "shepherding" gene that we seem to be losing from the breed. He has a temperament and character that the breed needs more of. The fearlessness is combined with a caring and gentleness appropriate to when the situation demands it. Two examples - we were trying to save some lambs who a first time mom had abandoned. Nemo climbed in the pen and wrapped his little body around them trying to keep them warm. Also on a visit to a friend in San Fran we were walking down the street and of course everyone would stop and want to engage Nemo because he' just so darn cute. He displayed properly aloof GSD attitude until we came to this young man sitting on the sidewalk with his guitar. You could tell he was new to the city, down on his luck and had a lot of hurt in his eyes. He didn't even try to say hello to Nemo but Nemo went up, climbed in his lap and gave him gentle little kisses as to say - "are you ok, buddy?" Guess you can tell I'm a definite Nemo fan. Have to bore you with one more story that I posted on another thread just earlier this week - shows the other side of Nemo. we were talking about herding but I will put it in a new comment cause this one might cut it off.

We were talking about the importance of the presence and power thing in herding. This is what I wrote - I share my home with 2 GSDs. Remy a strong powerful bitch who excells in Schuzthund and Nemo.Don't know how to post a picture but you can see both of them here - http://blog.petpac.net/blog/story/2007/7/21/64146/4861 Remy's the one auditioning for KISS. Nemo is the pituitary dwarf Shelly R has mentioned before - will have to do an update thread for her. Nemo is a Lasso son and is a pretty darn special dog. He is very empathic and his primary job is to take care of people but his secret persona that he aspires to is herding dog par excellence. He is 30 lbs soaking wet and has no problem taking a ram on. Julia and I went to a herding test awhile back just to watch. The Swissie people were putting it on and as you know their dogs are sort of good old boys. Well the sheep easily perceived that and their attitude was yeah right so there's dog in the arena and we should care why? The club needed one more entry to make a go of it so we stuck Nemo in. By the time Juila and he got to the gate and before he was even off lead the sheep were in the far corner faced outward stamping their feet - they understood the wolf was at the door. He may be small but let me tell you he has power and presence. It was actually quite humorous to watch. The tester had gone in w/o a rattle paddle 'cause after all he's just a little dog. As he was doing his warp 9 around the sheep AND being a bit of a prick it dawns on her that it would be useful to have. She gets it but is reluctant to use it thinking she'd discourage his interest. Yeah right -meanwhile Julia's saying whack his ass (he was not listening well that day) knowing full well such a little thing as a rattle paddle was not about to deter him. As part of the test you need a call off but by this time he was having way too much fun (it had been along time since he had gotten to work) and he was basically giving Julia the finger. BUT he was still dragging a 6 foot leash so on the next pass she simply steps on the leash and he hits the end of and does a perfect platz. Meanwhile I'm sitting w/ the Swissie people and all they see is the perfect down NOT the step on the leash and they are absolutely amazed at how well behaved he was. I still laugh every time I see it again in my mind. Thanks for your excellent posts and the wonderful memories it brought.

Margaret, Probably is as that was/is a favorite past time of his. Don't have that photo - can you share? He especially liked to do it with Betsy who was a coat but he'll grab anyone's even an intact male - it's his way of keeping up with the big dogs. Told you he was a character. Of course as well as the genetics a lot of credit goes to Julia and how she raised him. There was a little girl dwarf in resuce for months a couple years ago because she was 18 months and had been allowed to get away with he_ _ for all that time 'cause of the small , cute dog factor so was NOT a pleasant dog to be around.

TIG, that's SOOO funny, especially about the platz! Unfortunately, I couldn't get the link to work. No such link, GOOGLE tells me. If you click on my name, you can get my e-mail, and I could post them on Photobucket for you.