Sparky

Ch MonAmi Cavalier Fire Storm

“Sparky is a bright, happy boy. His family is in the military, so he has moved around a bit, but has managed to hit some shows, and now needs just a major to finish his championship. Sherry and Sparky have dabbled a bit in herding, and he has shown promise in that area, too. Sparky is from a two puppy litter, his litter sister is Ch MonAmi Take Fire At Cavalier.

He’s very sweet and silly. He’s a talker, but the trait we get the biggest kick out of is his smile. He always ‘grins’ at you when he first sees you, and it is a bit disconcerting to my daughter’s friends at first! The tail never stops wagging and when he’s really excited it goes in circles–we call it his propeller tail. Lauren has taught him to grin on command with a hand gesture. He has a lock on the ‘puppy dog’ look to get you to pet him, and if you ignore his head he rotates his butt around and leans on you till you scratch him between his hip bones, which is his favorite spot. When he’s relaxed he groans, there’s just no other word for it. His favorite activity is to disembowel all his stuffed toys so my house is frequently floating with stuffing. His goal seems to be to pull the squeaker, but once he’s in the stuffing has to go. He’s also a free spirit, so his second favorite activity is to find an open door and fly out to roam the neighborhood or to herd my horses–at which time he becomes conveniently totally deaf and untrained. Needless to stay, we are paranoid about gates and doors and don’t do off leash work a lot! When we get near a show site, he whines and whimpers as gets all wound up–it’s amazing how he realized where he is. He’s a favorite cuddle spot for my youngest cat. He thinks all kids should want to play with him, and all little white dogs must be toys for him. He’s a great dog, and as hopefully we finish up his title this summer, and my work schedule slows down a bit, I’m hoping to find a training club around here to get back into agility and work at least on a CD for him. I think he loved the herding test and I’d like to get him going on that, but I think that will end up waiting until we get back to Colorado.”