You know what's funny? I remember the first time I saw Jackie AND the first time I saw Dillon! Mind you - it was the same day.
I had also been waiting for my pup to be born. The breeder was breeding two of her girls close together. The first litter came - only 3 pups, not enough for me to have one. Two folks ahead of me on the list took the fluffs, and the breeder was going to (or so she thought
) keep the third. Then, in July, litter #2 was born . . . 5 pups this time. Only one problem though - by the time the breeder and the co-owner picked their pup, plus there were 2 other people on the waiting list, she was most likely only going to have 2 fluffy females to offer - and I had told her I wanted a R&W, regular coated male (although I also said I would take a fluff if that's how it worked out). We went to visit in August, when Jackie was 4 weeks old. At that point, we weren't sure which pup we would get, or even if we would be able to get one (Jackie wasn't a super-fluffy pup, so the breeder didn't decide for a LONG time whether or not she was going to give her up!). Anyway . . . she showed us the pen with the little fuzzballs (all puppies that age look like little fuzzballs to me), and pointed out the 2 girls that she thought were going to be fluffs. They were both cute, but Jackie was just so spunky that I fell in love with her. When we found out a month later that she definitely was a fluff , and that she was OURS, we were so excited!!! And the day we picked her up was such a happy day. She did look like a little teddy bear, and her ears were only halfway up, which was adorable (like wings). Below are pics of Jackie at 4 weeks (taking a much needed nap after bossing her littermates around), and when we took her home (9 weeks).
On that first day, we also saw a cute little R&W boy who turned out to be Dillon! He was the one that the breeder wanted to keep for herself from that first litter of 3 . . . but those who read Emilie's story know how that turned out!