Dear Monette:

We just wanted to thank you for our dog, Hunter.  We couldn't  be more pleased with him.  He is a joy to have  in our home and we have adjusted well to him  ( I hope).  When Jeff & I were first talking about a German Shepherd, our younger son, Jack, was a little afraid of being around big dogs.  Now he just goes up to the owner and asks if he can pet their dog.  Last weekend he went up to see another Shepherd and talked to the owner for about 10 minutes and found out that the female was a  search and rescue dog!  Our older son, Jim, is in to teaching Hunter many tricks, including "dancing."

Hunter loves to play in the field behind our house, he doesn't retrieve a lot, but we keep practicing.  We don practice his tracking quite a bit, and that means tracking all 4 of us at different times and areas behind the house.  He gets quite upset and howls a lot when he gets left behind.  We are now taking him to soccer games with us and he behaves very well.  He doesn't bark at other dogs or people.  He just finds himself a spot and sits or lays down to watch the game.  He does get car sick, but the vet recommended Dramamine 1 hour before departure and that has worked wonderfully.

There are a couple other Shepherds in the Valley, but we all like Hunter's darker coloring than the other dogs we see.  Hunter is also taller and longer than the other Shepherds, which includes a couple males.

Thank you again for our "baby", and I hope he loves his humans as much as we love him!

Sincerely,

Jeff, Rilla, Jim & Jack Reinsma