Reunions like this are always a bit of a bittersweet thing for us; while we love to be reunited with puppies that have been born out of our stock and are more than happy to work with someone that needs to rehome one of our pups, having to reposes them is one of our least favourite aspects of breeding.
Unfortunately both our pick of litter Cael and orange collar Ren have been repossessed as we no longer felt that the homes they had gone to were capable of caring for them in the way they deserved.
According to their chaperone, Ren had a hard time with the travel and it was very much apparent in the nervous wreck of a dog we were greeted to by the time we got to the airport to pick the two pups up; it was a crushing sight to see the incredibly happy go lucky puppy that had left our care trembling in her travel crate even after having to be medicated to get through the trip. This was a pup who settled right down in her crate at 8 weeks old for the long flight out of Ireland and had nothing but glowing reports on each stop to her new home.
The last thing we had ever expected from this litter was to have two dogs that shied away from people and struggled to settle down to walk calmly on a lead, this is not what we breed for, not at all a condition that we would have released our dogs in, and not at all what we're looking for in homes for our animals.
While we did eventually get them settled enough to walk mostly quietly out of the airport with us both dogs were still clearly anxious and antsy for the trip to be over with.
Instead of coming back to the kennel grounds, where there's a whole bunch of other animals and people always about, we've brought Cael and Ren to a board and training facility that I (Imögen) have worked closely with since I was a child.
Storsjön is very much equipped to best assess our pups and get them started back on the right path, with the bonus of having my parents both on staff there to keep an eye on them.
We work very closely with Storsjön when it comes to our Dobermann that are based in or coming out of Sweden and are expecting to see some fantastic results when it comes to these two as we've seen with all the other Dobes and German Shepherds that we've sent to them.
They got some immediate off leash time on the grounds once we got there much to both dogs pleasure and by the time I was headed back to the airport for the trip home I was already catching glimpses of the personalities that the two had when they left our kennel originally.
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