Leisure Engagement Passion

Once we saw all those little schipperke puppies trying to run around, we were hooked.  Our Schipperke Dogs are family and they know it.

I’ve written about quite a few things since I started this blog and didn’t even realize I had not mentioned the babies of our Nadamoto family.

Schipperke dogs are difficult to photo

Aja and Nali are Schipperke Dogs.  Aja is almost 9 years old and we got her from a breeder in Stevenson Ranch here in California.  I never thought I wanted a pet considering I worked in the airline industry and was always traveling for work and it wasn’t that I didn’t like pets, but it was because I didn’t want to neglect them by never being around.  But my husband on the other hand worked our business out of our home and as soon as we enclosed the courtyard he, we, went ahead and researched what breed of dogs would be good for us.

I think he already new he wanted a Schipperke.  Schipperkes according to him had very long lives, no real health problems and are great watchdogs.  And since he would be home to care for her, I went along in the decision.  We were lucky that when we were ready to bring a dog into the family the breeder we found had just had a litter.  We weren’t allowed to go over until they were 8 weeks old.  As soon as that day came we went right over to pick out the one we wanted.  The Schipperke puppies were all sooo cute.  They had different colored ribbons around their necks to tell them apart.  They weren’t given any names so that their new owners could name them.  My husband didn’t want a boy, he said boys like to “mark” their spot all over the place.  So we had our eyes on “Pink” and “Red”.  We decided on “Red”, she had alot more personality than “Pink” did and so we signed all the documents and we were on our way home.  That was in April of 2000. Her champion name is Nautica Somewhere Over China or Aja.

Then one day we thought “what if we had a companion for Aja?” I’ll post about Nali soon. (He’s the one with the tongue sticking out)