Quenotte's first recovery

It was a hard decision but a right one. Quenotte turned out not to be a breeding prospect (we'll have a separate post on this in a few days) so with a very heavy heart we decided to let her go to a new home. Often buyers of our puppies wonder how difficult it must be to let puppies go to new homes. When pups leave us at 10-12 weeks, it is not difficult. From the beginning we know that they will not be staying here. However, when you keep a pup for over a year, you get really attached. To place youngsters like Quenotte in a new home is very difficult on the emotional level.

Luckily we could not ask for a better home for Quenotte. Now she lives with Kevin and Dawn Wilson and their teenage daughter Baylee in Virginia. She is their only dog so she gets plenty of attention and love. Kevin is a year-round bowhunter and District leader for Suburban Whitetail Management of Norther Virginia. In certain northern Virginia suburbs there is year-round controlled bowhunting of nuisance deer on special depredation permits. The excessive numbers of deer carry Lyme disease, cause accidents on highways and destroy shrubbery in peoples yards.  Quenotte will have year-round opportunities to track wounded deer. Is there anything more that you could ask for?

On Saturday I received e-mail from Kevin saying: "Quenotte recovered her first deer this morning. The deer went about 300 yards on a single lung and gut/belly shot. I will send details later but she did a great job. More to follow including video. Kevin"

I got a little teary-eyed as we miss Quenotte, but we know that she is doing now what she was bred for. Thank you Kevin!

Kevin with Quenotte and the deer she recovered