Monette,

Hello! How are you?  We are doing great.  Ares is a wonderful addition  to our family.  He is loving.  He and Jasmine, our Cattle Dog, are inseparable.

We are impressed with how intelligent and quick to learn he is.  And everywhere we go people comment on how good he looks.

I have enclosed photos from around 6 months.  I hope they convey how happy and healthy he is.  Just today he went for his first swim!  (He used to stay on shore and watch Jasmine.)

I am also enclosing his certificate of graduation from puppy kindergarten.  We are currently enrolled in Obedience I at another school.  I prefer the school we are at now - I took Jasmine there as well.  If you have anyone in the Ft. Collins area in the future you can tell them about Dr. Gail Clark at It's A Dogs World - Canine Academy.  She is fabulous.  Ares graduates in 2 weeks + we will send out a copy of his certificate.

I sent in his blue slip + he is officially named Prince Ares Benjamin Bandit.  It turns out my grandmother had an all black German Shepherd as a childe whose name was Prince - so we added it on.  Also we are spelling Ares A-R-E-S after the Greek God, not A-R-I-E-s like the Zodiac sign.

He has been neutered + I enclosed that form.  We will do his hip X-Rays closer to 1 year. 

I guess that's all for now - thanks for everything.

Love,

Gwen