Joey
Joey a simple call name for a far from simple boy
Joey got his name because when he was very small just had his eyes open he was my son John's favorite pup. And and he would carry him around in the pocket of his sweatshirt that little pup would sleep there all day just about happy to be toted around. As he got older he would stick his head out, I have to hunt up one of those pictures. And watch as he was carried around safe in his pocket.
No he did not get his name for that, though he did look like a Joey in a pouch. What he got his name for was when he was too big to be in the pocket any more and yet still tried to get in, I need to hunt that picture up as well. He would try and dive head first with his rear end still mostly out like an overgrown Joey to be carried, and that is when Baby Boy Lime for his ribbon color became Joey
I could skip around and see what layout I chose for the past pages and when I put what and said this or that. But that would be no fun Sooooo each page will be laid out and unfolded as I type it :)
From his litter Log
# 6. Baby Boy Lime
Born: 11:01PM
Weight: 20oz
Details: Born head first both arms back. Dry birth covered in green. Boy
what a job and what a puppy! He was and is the biggest one. He
complained about his introduction and me pulling on his skin to try and
get a very stuck pup out. But was active and nursed well.
Joey was such a sweet quiet pup and so big and rolly polly
And such a good boy a mellow laid back go with the flow kinda guy
I dug out some pictures
He also was so easy to Alpha Train
He was such a pretty boy here are few of his pix
8 weeks
10 weeks
5 months in his ugglies
Joey's first Christmas
Joe's first show he was still in his ugglies but both him and Angie took the puppy ribbons no points
He is now 6 months old and starting to come out of his ugglies, something his sister never went through but we wondered would this boy be all legs and muzzle forever
At his first real show the Handler liked liked Joey. Said he had
presence, and that he has. That boy has self stacked off lead since he was about 12
weeks old with both front feet glued together facing perfectly to the front
and tail out. And is regal when he chooses to be.
Joey's story was not the outcome
we hoped for.
From my notes of that day: Joey
would not let the judge touch him. He stacked out great and he looked good,but
he was scared to death of her, even going so far as to run around behind me when
she approached him.
After he took puppy he lost Breed to a pet quality choc.
bitch. After it was over the judge had me get down next to him and hold him
and she went over him and said what a nice puppy he was and what an
outstanding dog he was going to be and the out come would have been
different if he was acting as we was then as I held him for her to go over
then how he had acted when she had tried to go over him before.
About 15 mins before Joey went into the ring a full grown Golden walking by
him turned around and bit him in the face, with no warning! No blood was
drawn and Joey seemed fine. He was shook up, but seemed to come out of it
quickly and was back standing for me and free stacking for food.
Joey is the leader of the litter always watched over everyone, but he is
also cautious of strangers, always watching out for the group, but he never
shied away from a judge or anyone before that. He was great at the handling
seminar. Let everyone he did not know go over him and pet him. He does get
insecure sometimes and tries to get into my lap or jumps up and wants me to
hold him. But he is usually open, to people as long as I am there to assure
him it is OK.
My husband John took him to his office to see how he would be He has not been
there since 4 months old he was 6 months on Feb. 29th. He was scared of
everyone there.
So I need to curb this as he has a sanction B show on Friday and his first
point show on March 18 and he is also entered in the following day's show on
the 19th and we can not have him acting in this manner. And if he does not
come out of it I will have to neuter and place him in a pet home, as I can
not have a stud dog that is fearful or timid. It is just not a Labrador
Temperament.
Epilogue: My boy only got worse to the point he would not allow any judge to go over him and after a lot of soul searching we decided to pull him from the shows he was ruined for the breed ring and I was deciding do I neuter and find a pet home that is when he fathered Angie’s litter. Following that litter he was still having fear issues and now biting. I decided to try neutering rather than euthanize as I was not sure if even that would work Labs do not bite. I regretted losing him as a stud but no dog I bred purposely would be other than the best Lab temperament and that attack should not have ruined him so badly. So I turned down offers of $$$$ to sell him to breeders and he opted for sterilization.
Had I known at that time the outstanding pups and fantastic temperments and personalities he would father in that oooppps litter and how his son Dutch,, French-Vanila's Split the Check
CH CAN CH French-Vanila's Split the Check at 2
would one day be the champion his
dad never got to be. Maybe I would have rethought that decision. But it could
not be taken back and shortly I would have to send them all off anyway and so Joey was
sent to a friend in
Joey enjoyed being with Joyce and I think she would have kept him at her Rescue for life as we were unsure he was trusted to be adoptable and she was an alternative to euthanasia. Plus she was good with the misfits my $12,000 misfit as that was what the litter had cost me.
However Joyce had a friend a policeman who used to come and help with the dogs. he was on the bomb squad and he bonded with Joey and would come visit and play with him and soon started taking him to classes and teaching him to work for the towel and after awhile he started working with him with the rest of the dogs and slowly Joey took over the class and soon was being used to teach new dogs and then the policeman asked Joyce if he could adopt him.
We were elated! And after many visits he took him home for good.
The policeman never thought he would do more than have him as pet and use him as a teaching tool. But something about Joey's desire to please and work that drive of all my dogs was unstoppable and he started taking him on real bomb runs and Joey won the Bomb Dog of the year award in Ohio in 2002 and is still happy and loves his person.
The misfit boy who by circumstances bad luck or? Never was finished in the breed ring ended up still making his mark not in the 3 sons he produced as only Dutch was shown and sadly he was killed in a car accident at about 3, though did sire two litters before his death so Joey goes on. Of the 3 daughters out of that accidental litter were all spayed and settled into pet homes except French-Vanila's Daisy Mae and that litter brought Gunner French-Vanila's Gunnen for Bear MH CD WC , but he is a grandson and Dutch a son and so Angie and Joey go on in in direct line in Conformation Showing in Dutch's offspring.
And Joey is still happy healthy and living in Ohio to date
