{"id":924,"date":"2012-01-18T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:23:12","slug":"bye-bye-little-miss-scatterbrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/personal-posts\/bye-bye-little-miss-scatterbrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye, Little Miss Scatterbrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is with mixed feelings that I announce that Winona (who we talked about days ago in our 2012 goals<\/a>) went to a new home on Friday.\u00a0 After their weekend trial period, her new family has fallen in love with her.<\/p>\n

\"Winona<\/a>

Winona at 7 weeks<\/p><\/div>\n

I get frequent enquiries about border terriers, and Winona has been ‘on offer’ for a while – however, with certain conditions. Namely, that we can continue to show her to her title, and that we can have a litter from her at a later date. This is a pretty big ask.<\/p>\n

Her new family contacted me after their border terrier cross died, and after a lot of consideration, came to visit. \u00a0To say that Winona and I haven’t bonded would be an understatement… And this meant I didn’t have a lot of good things to say about her. \u00a0Winnie barks. A lot. \u00a0Winnie is mouthy when she’s over excited. \u00a0Winnie isn’t toilet trained.<\/p>\n

Her new family thought she was cool, despite this. Clearly a case of different horses for different courses.<\/p>\n

I said I would show her some weekends, and she’d have to be available to me until she got her title. \u00a0She would also have to come back for a litter and, if there was only boys or crap in her litter, then I would need another one.<\/p>\n

Her new family understood that she was important to my breeding program. I wouldn’t accept a dog on these conditions but, again, who am I to say no?<\/p>\n

They gave me a call on their first night, and told me that Winnie had spent the afternoon watching TV with their daughter on the couch. \u00a0I clarified, yes, on the couch with their daughter. \u00a0At my house, Winnie wouldn’t sit on the couch with me – she’d prefer to sit on the couch on the other side of the room. \u00a0I laughed at her independence, but was secretly offended.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking, perhaps Winnie and I were just not meant to get along.<\/p>\n

\"Winona<\/a>

Winona at 1 year old, a few weeks ago<\/p><\/div>\n

I know this has worked out for the best for me, for my existing dogs, for Winnie, and probably her new family too (seeing they like her and all).<\/p>\n

Winnie, while living here, was just a dog.\u00a0 Now she gets the opportunity to be Winnie.<\/p>\n

Good luck, Winnie. I’ll pick you up for our next show and we’ll hang out again then.<\/p>\n

\"Winona<\/a>

Winona with new friend Diago, the staffy x shih tzu.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Winona, my one year old border terrier, was rehomed on the weekend. Winnie now gets the opportunity to be part of a loving family, instead of just ‘existing’ as ‘one of the dogs’ at my house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[275,38,177,176,321],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-posts","tag-border-terriers","tag-breeding","tag-rehome","tag-rehoming","tag-winona"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}