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Buddy’s story starts out some three years before we bought him at 6 weeks of age. A good friend told me about Ammo’s record-setting Derby career with 144 Derby points shattering the old record of 109 Derby points. He said, this is the Chocolate lines you want. So I called Deb, the owner of Santa Fe Labs and asked if I could put a deposit down. She said yes, and I was # 18 on that list. HOLY COW, I thought. I might never get a pup.

To make a long story short, we waited three years and Buddy was 1 of 11 pups from the 4th breeding between these two greats in Tyra a GMPR MH and Roux and FC AFC MH. When I showed up to make my pick, I asked Deb if I could pull the flight feathers from this pigeon she had sitting in a bird bag. She agreed so I did saw. I had all 11 pups wanting the bird and I tossed it maybe 10 feet away.

It was game on. The yellow colored collared male run over the top of one pup, snatched up the bird and the other 10gave chase. I am not kidding, 40 minutes later the other 10 pups were sound asleep and had given up trying to get this bird from this male. This male, who right then and there I named Buddy, still after 40 minutes later, not once had put that bird down. Buddy was 42 days old when he did this. I knew these pups were special and Buddy has never left me down since!

I got Buddy home at the young age of 43 days. He could already go on a walk on a lead so he learned heel really quick. On that same day I started rolling a ball in the driveway for him to chase. Chase heck, he would retrieve it to hand every time and was running just as fast has his little legs could go. Then I started throwing him a 2 inch orange bumper the way you would throw one for a 6 month old. I was throwing this bumper into my neighbor’s yard as far as I could throw it, and how that little stinker could see it, mark it and retrieve it back to hand was like something I never imagined.

You take a puppy at 43 days old and see if it can mark like this. I tell you it is very rare. But these Tyra & Roux pups develop great eye sight and great depth perception at very young ages. The rest is history. What follows are just the highlights of Buddy’s accomplishments to date. Yes at almost 11, he still plays the game.