There are two beautiful tibbies staying with us: miss Betula Modra pisnicka (our Betty) and a young man Vulcanus Perla mahagon (dear Keny)

And how did it all happen?

As everything by me:  first a strong effort "think twice, find as many information as possible, ask questions and arrange things slowly step by step..." and finally impulsive "do something" as always...

When I have noticed that we were going to move to a new place in about one year, I felt like "Wow, my life is going to change!" Of course, there will be many changes - our address, children’s school, my job (if I find some) - but I wasn’t thinking about these so much. After all the years of "doing nothing" while staying at home with babies I was so much looking forward to arranging a new house and garden... AND.. most of all living in the first floor, which means that I finally can have a little doggy friend… We live in a house with a big garden, too, but till now there were too many “buts” – the children were too small so I had to take care of them… I was worried about all the stairs because I knew from a very trusty source that little dogs have big hip problems if running the stairs too often – so I would have to bear it every time to walk it and back… and there are three doors you have to open to get outside – so the dog could not go alone when in need…

Thinking of all these changes that would come in a year, I started choosing a pet. The first Tibetan Spaniel I had seen, was a “common beige” one in a book – I thought that this might be an ideal dog, only  if it possibly could have a different colour … I was looking on and finally there were two favourites: a tibby and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I still didn’t know much about tibbies so I started to search the web information. And there I saw black and tan bitch Akara of Mrs. Wijacka from the kennel Queen Daisy. I was in love at the moment! But every time I am in love, I just cannot wait! I sent few e-mails to various kennels to find out their puppy expectations about the next spring.  Let’s  skip this part, it would be very long… Finally I have chosen few dogs and bitches of the “sweet and lovely colours” and then I booked a puppy from one of them of Mrs. Hajkova from the kennel Perla Mahagon. The term of the litter – either this summer or the next spring – so according to my plans (only if it would be this summer, I would have to accept few months of bearing the dog through the three doors early in the morning – but suddenly I found it possible…).  There is one more thing I have to say at this place – as to the really dark tibbies – many times I had to look back to a black and tan couple of Mrs. Dlabolova from the kennel Modra Pisnicka, that she brought from the USA – Dragonsong Steeldust and Dragonsong Worldclass. Amazing devils!  On the kennel’s websites (by the way, Mrs. Dlabolova is the breeding adviser) I could read about the wild temperament and “unnursability” of all black and tan tibbies – so I worried that this would be too much for me and a particolor one will be ok.

And then It came… Hours and hours surfing the web every day, watching pictures, reading every letter on kennels’ and clubs’ websites, looking for foreign sites, exhibitions results … then realizing that if the puppy will be born at the beginning of the next summer, I will not have enough time to take care of it because I will have to find a job… and then again and again explaining to my husband Peter that bearing the dog over the stairs and walking it through three doors in the fact is NOT impossible… and finally his tired “Please go and buy one now!” I didn’t need his permission but this was the last straw… It was on Saturday morning and I suddenly realized that all the puppies I recently knew about are already with their new owners. I called to all advertised numbers – but nothing. All gone. “How about this one?” asked me Peter looking at the advertisement of Modra Pisnicka. “No, these must all be gone for sure, they are puppies of the two beautiful American devils! But they are unnursable – I couldn’t handle it…”  I absolutely do not know where I found the bravery and faith to call Mrs. Dlabolova few minutes later… She decided to keep Betula first  but then the family advised her that they have got enough tibbies already – so she was there, definitely waiting for me. After Mrs. Dlabolova has said that Betula wasn’t of wild temperament and unnursable I begged and begged and almost didn’t let her breath in. The last thing she said was “I have to prepare myself psychically for that – come tomorrow…”  I wasn’t sure whether the preparing was meant because of loosing Betula or meeting me… Perhaps both…

We didn’t have anything. Fortunately there was a supermarket’s pet shop open on Saturday afternoon so we went there to buy the place to sleep, bowls, toys, all the food including condensed milk and sponge-biscuits … - and the next day we came to Prague to Mrs. Dlabolova’s  house for the little girl. In front of the house Peter asked me an interesting question: “What will you do if you don’t like her?” I didn’t know, I didn’t think of such possibility…  We hoped that she might be as coloured as her father (mother doesn’t have the white colour)… And then we met! Me and my Betty! She immediately jumped in my arms, licked all my face and was very happy. Then she did the same to Peter and our children. (I have read an important advice about getting tibby used to strange people, letting them touch it and so on so that the dog is not afraid of them – ok, this part of training was successfully done… :-) )  There was no doubt that if I wanted a beautiful dark puppy that allows me to nurse it and doesn’t bark all the time - it was exactly Betty! (As for the barking - we didn’t hear her for a whole week - and later she only barked on me to give her the food that I was just preparing (too slowly, of course) or on the "strange" dog in the mirror...)

Betty felt at home immediately, accepted the place to stay and all other stuff, didn’t whine during nights at all, ate all the food I prepared from the very beginning... as some puddles and droppings appeared in the living room, we started to fill the door by an armchair and there is no more problem... we go out through three doors every late night and early morning, but we do not mind - and I don’t have to bear her, because she can run up and downstairs without any injury... we learn from each other and are together... Just the travelling - she feels sick every time, so now we try short trips (every day’s way to a nursery school, that is 2 kms long looks like a good way to handle it without any tablets)... we’ll see...

And - of course - the puppy from Mrs. Hajkova will come to our family, too - as booked... at least Betty will not feel alone when I am at work... And now I am able to wait - I have Betty!

  Keny is at home!

Well, I planned a particolor girl - and I have a sable boy :-) Don´t ask me why - there are so many things that change your life and you cannot do anything else...  My life way brought me to Keny and I am so much happy for him. So wish us a good luck in future...