Nooo cannot stay! As cute as she is. Yes Milo JRTs tend to be hardy. Eye issues and luxating patella's seem to be the biggies.
I don't mind answering questions as I have never hid things. I get how people might think this in a way, I haven't been on chaz much so I am not putting every dog thought I have on here these days the way I used too. But new job, (and well working pretty much all through sept without a day off between 2 jobs) the puppies and life.. doesn't leave me enough time to chaz it up.
If you all want to be really horrified. Seren isn't registered yet (in part because I was waiting on paperwork, which is why she didn't go to nats this year)
.... but in the JRT world that isn't a super big deal. Now I will be registering her (which is quite the process compared to CKC/AKC registration) but Kaiden's mom was never registered. He is fully registered (jrts are only registered for breeding, others are recorded) It just costs a little more.
For the record though, if people want to know WHY I wanted this cross, other than its as close to producing Kat (whom I think was the epitome of JRTness)
Kaiden is now 9 and is very healthy with no issues. He can still jump an agility course at 24 inches. He has a stellar temperament, and gets along well with people and dogs. Kaiden has his CD and is one leg away from his CDX (and has been for ages because its been 5 years or so since I last entered an obed competition) I don't enter him in agility much (money only goes so far) but he is an excellent masters snooker and masters agility dog. Darien has handled him in JRT trials (so obed, agility, confo, and go to ground) since he was little.. winning the child handler of the year more than once. Darien also handled Kaiden in AAC and dock dogs when Darien was 6 and 7. Kaiden is very confident and relaxed.
In short we have an older healthy dog who has done well in dog sports and has an amazing personality.
Kaiden has only had two litters previous to this one. We all I know I don't breed often
I also don't believe breeding the same stud constantly either.
His first litter was the one that produced Dekka (and we all know how amazing she is) It also produced Snip, who is an awesome stable dog. Winner of many reserve and grand champs in racing. Has done very well in super earth and go to ground and is a super happy dog. He loves people and with his new owner (a good friend) he still does the 'booth' dog thing for the rescue and breed club. Oh and he has been proven to work in the field.
Then we have Trix. Trix is an excellent flyball dog. I don't know about flyball that much, but I know she does well at it. Not crazy well as she is pretty small, but can single stride down the line. She is doing well at agility. She has qualified (I can't remember if they went) for the AAC nats.
The rest of the puppies went to pet homes and are much loved.
His other litter was out Riley. If anyone remembers Cargo whom I got back... ya wow dog. He is off doing film work. What a stable dog! He had been locked in a room most his life before I got him back.
Ok so now on to Seren.
Seren's pedigree is full of working dogs who are also top confo dogs. Both her parents are bronze medallion dogs, her sire has won at the US nats as has his sire. You have to go back to great grandparents to find dogs who don't have working certs and even then out of all of them there are only 2. So she has a pretty exciting working and confo pedigree.
So THAT is why I wanted that cross. I wanted to take some excellent sport lines and cross with exemplary working/confo lines to produce, hopefully, the best of both world.
Like Kat was.
Hopefully that clears up some things. If not if people want to ask that is ok. If it makes people upset, I am sorry.