Meet my new puppy, "Roso", short for Sabroso, which is a type of chili, the English translation of the variety meaning "tasty". Chili was the breeder's theme for this litter, because the sire's name was Chile, who was probably given that name because the breeder lives in Las Cruces, NM, the Chili Capital of the World.
Chile was a great and famous show, obedience, and hunting dog, that produced many fine puppies, while he was alive. The breeder decided to freeze his semen, some of which was used for this litter, 18 years later. Chile was also my dog, Cielo's, grandfather, which makes Roso his uncle. You'd have to see them together to get an idea of how ridiculous this seems. Roso will be just 9 weeks old, next Sunday, and Cielo will be 12 in August. My first search dog, Hopi, was from a litter that was a repeat of the breeding that produced Chile, so our connections go way back.
OK, so I haven't been spending
all my time trying to fix our Internet problems. We also made a trip to Phoenix and back, in one day, to pick him up. Yesterday, when the alarm went off, I felt really sleepy, but I figured it was just due to the lack of sleep from the night before. But, when I went downstairs and fed all four dogs, I noticed that the wrong show was on TV. It took me some time to figure out that the alarm was still set for 2:00 AM, but I was glad to be able to go back to bed and get a couple more hours sleep, especially since I decided to take Roso to bed with me. He squirmed and squirmed for a couple of minutes, but soon went sound asleep. I've never had the opportunity to sleep next to a more cuddly puppy than Roso.
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