07/03/2009 Introduction....
Well here I am staring daily at the www.familydobes web site, actually more than daily, every free minute. Let me begin with my connection to www.familydobes.com, I was 39 years old and for a year prior to my 40th birthday my fiancé stated I could have anything i wanted for my 40th birthday, i.e. a cruise, at one point he even suggested 2 elephants and a camel....my passion for Dobermans has been since i was a young girl and i always had a dream to own a "real" Doberman and not a white picket fence what I wanted was to have a working dog you know one of those mean...tough dogs that are loveable behind closed doors, so with much undercover research for about 6 months i surfed the web to the point I erased the history....after all he know all I wanted was Doberman...he had just gotten me 2 Doberman puppies from another kennel on April 6th, how could I now asked for this trained adult working Doberman, so one night over the nice dinner I made him, I say i have decided i what i want and it is so simple...and i showed him Sol from Familydobes...in 2 days i was on a plane meeting the owner of FamilyDobes...Steve and truly his family of 4 children and his wife....all of who I fell in love with, i guess i could not ask to take a dog and the 4 children....lol i immediately bonded with Sol and he and I worked great together Steve was so kind and patient....even when he was teaching me my handling techniques and i did not know my left from my right....so i fly home with this wonderful 40th birthday gift, Sol fits in with my other dogs and my fiancé... it is now 5/16/09....i see the a litter of puppies born and say this Sol is so awesome I want and need to have another Family Dobe... once again I secretly research and keep the puppy cam minimized on my computer screen even at work....at this point i have arranged to meet with a trainer and join my local Doberman club who all of the members are super impressed with my Sol and can not believe how much drive and bonding he has with me...in such a short amount of time...Sol has come into my home since 5/16/9 and it has been nothing but pure paradise...I sleep sound each and every night....to be continued with my desire for my next FamilyDobe....

On May 24, 2009 I see that Ruby the greatest female dobe in the family dobe kennel is having her puppies i think to myself am i nuts but i really want one of her puppies (this mom Ruby) jumped in my rental car when i there visiting Steve and bringing Sol home...she was so sweet and loveable to me and Steve's family but also a great protector over the children... i thought to myself i need to have one of those puppies...but really secretly kept this insane thought in my head... so on June 18th i make the offer to take the pink collared female to NJ, and then on June21st (the actual day of my 40th birthday i wake up and see my name typed into the Family Dobes Selma reservation tab! I could not even eat (did i mention since getting my Sol i have lost 12.8 lbs) and now this pink promise is what i have decided to refer to as with my conversations with Steve. it is my pink (for the collar) and promise (to the puppy, he, my fiancé and myself that she will get the best care and training that i have to offer her, and i promise to make it...in this doberman world....so now it is a couple of weeks until she comes to NJ, how do i tell family and friends i am up to four dobermans and will be training 2 of them...less is best...if you are not a Doberman/Schutzhund lover you would not understand....now i have ordered another crate for home and my Yukon (i bet the UPS man thinks i have lost my mind)...did i mention that i have a 17 year old son who is so happy that i have all these Dobermans because he is an only child so you can imagine where all my attention has been for 17 years.....so now that i know that the pink promise is my dog...i watch every minute the puppy web cam...what a great invention. and on June 30th i send Steve an emergency text message....OMG where is the pink promise? he writes back look closely she is sleeping near the blue collared puppy.....as i am writing this blog i see that Steve just fed the puppies....what a miracle the web cam is....On July 8th is the arrival date for my pink promise which i have decided will not sound so "professional' at the trials...is going to be call Sierra Tango...the date i am going to take off 4 days of work to be with my puppy can not come soon enough....i am SO SO SO excited... i am so ready to just smell her puppy breath... in the mean time my Sol and i are training 2x daily and 2x week with a professional trainer and today at the trial field i heard a Tri-State Doberman Club member say "you should be so proud of that Doberman, he has the best bite I have ever seen." and my trainer...world famous trainer John Soares has been complementing on Sol's bite work and believes we will be famous...stay tuned....I love my Dobermans