FROM MAIS AND AFTERWARDS

Everything went up during Christmas time in 2000, without warning, she has arrived in my life the sweetest living being of the world: Romanza del Sogno Antico (Romance of the Ancient Dream).
Clearly, as all the dogs that enter a house, have been rechristened: now is Mais.Mais, comes from her color, but also for the importance that this cereal has for the man: the same one that she has to me.

If I tried to explain the relationship that happened among us I would surely be able to write for whole times and it surely this is not the proper place but I would like to explain what had happened between me and the Golden. You will surely have already read illuminating texts and seen photos that make your heart beat but if one of these wonder nature won't look straight in to your eyes, you will not understand what Golden means.

Some years passed: I have done so many things, I have studied the race, the morphological characteristics, the character and meanwhile the love grew. With the precious help from the very experienced expert breeders and a really lovers of the race. I have understood what the blood lines are, what the hereditary illnesses are and what things are good for their health.

I still have so much to learn but today I can say that I knew the Golden.

Mais is not a point of arrival anymore: she is revealed as the founder of that I would like her to be a great dynasty. Here my first commitment: I absolutely desire to preserve, rather than strengthen the sweet and certain character, the healthy, the ability to Mais'job.

But the Golden is known that they are as the cherries, from one to another one and another, after only 20 months from the arrival of Mais to my Crusca life is catapulted. As I previously had already experimented, when one of these marvelous beings look into your eyes it goes straight to your heart: so I have decided neither me nor Mais we would have been able to live without another blonde creature.

Crusca, to the century "Thuaidh Paint the Sky With Stars", for the intimate Crucru has been a new exciting adventure that has surely contributed to widen my knowledge on this splendid race. Crusca is an overwhelming dog: its joy and its gladness of the way of living are to a little contagious, its trot is really a show and its pround and elegant gait it is a pleasure for the one who observes it. Crusca has the most natural predisposition to interact with the master and to live for to master, it has an endless sweetness transmitted by its big eyes and by the desire of continuous physical contact and besides it has an athletic performance that brings it to face all the activities "sporting" like running and swimming with the inexhaustible joy of a puppy.

Crusca is the incarnation that has became what I believe: the golden retriever is really a marvelous dog, it needs only looking for the correct master.

Before I spoke about cherries, I was lucky because I found two cherries in my cake …
Mais had a splendid nine small plagues puppies and two of them still remained with me. I am speaking about Pannocchia and Natalina, for the friends you may call them Panna and Nat. It is impossible to explain what represents inside my herd family, you have only to think that they were born at Christmas'night……..
Panna could not have another appropriate name: a mountain of sugar with two black big eyes. Nat is look like her aunt, Crusca: a life devoted to the dynamism and the sport.

Observe them while they are facing the novelties that life proposes them, while they are playing or simply while they are waiting for a biscuit with thoughtless and certain typical of the puppies that are felt by now great it brings me to two characters that you surely know very well: the cat and the fox…….
Believe me, my role imposes as a mother who train them but inexorably the two daredevil appear on the surface then I figure myself as a grandmother who loves spoiling but knows it is an evil. So satisfactions grow and the pride for the done job increases.

I still remember the separation from the first puppy: a catastrophe……

A storm of such feelings made me doubt whether to continue or to throw the sponge. And the big help from one of my friends who is an expert breeder told me: "it is a sin that cannot make other people to fall in love with Golden retriever like it has happened to you when Mais has entered your life." In the difficult moments I treasure this simple truth and with renewed enthusiasm then I restart again.