Okay, I have now finished Katey, put a major on Andy and am floating on cloud nine. I made sure I called Katey’s breeder to let her know. This was a Monday morning. By Monday afternoon we had our third smooth collie!!! Smooths are like potato chips, you can’t have just one….and all this excitement lead to Haurand’s Little Miss Dune (Jennifer). Now we had seen Jennifer during the summer of 1996, but couldn’t get her because we had just purchased Andy. Her breeder was calling her Little Miss No Name, so when I called Kathy about Katey finishing she told me that No Name was still available and if I wanted her we could co-own her until she finished….at no cost to me. Well….that’s all it took and we picked her up that Monday afternoon. Her breeder was calling her Jennifer by that time so we kept the name. But when we registered her we wanted to incorporate part of Little Miss No Name into her registered name. So we came up with Haurand’s Little Miss Dune, substituting our kennel name for No Name. Jennifer was a showing machine when it came to the ring. We picked up all of her championship points without ever leaving the State of Virginia. Katey and Andy had traveled to NC, MD and NJ to help with their points. Jennifer finished her Championship in August of 1998, just two months after Andy. Wow what a year that was for us. In January of 1999 we bred Jennifer for the first time, with pups due the beginning of April. After we bred Jennifer I took a job with my brother-in-law working as a Dresser for theatrical performances that came into town. Wouldn’t you know that the day my first assignment was supposed to start Jennifer decided to whelp her litter. So for the next five weeks I was one busy woman, trying to work at the theatrical production from 2pm til 1130pm and then taking care of puppies once we got home. Oh yeah, I was leaving the house at 530am with my hubby and we weren’t getting home until almost 1am. Five busy weeks to say the least….LOL. We kept two puppies from that litter, but I will tell their stories later. In March of 2000 I found me a job working full time. The day I got called for my interview I had just wormed all the dogs in the kennel. I followed the directions and left them with plenty of water. I went on the interview and when I came back Jennifer had thrown up in her crate. I noticed that quite a few of the dogs were sick and I was worried. All but Jennifer bounced back. On March 15^th 2000 our precious Jennifer left us for the Rainbow Bridge. Somehow, and we aren’t quite sure how, she had punctured a lung. Unfortunately, unlike humans whose lungs can heal and reinflate, dogs do not. To this day I carry the guilt that I am the one who “killed” my precious Jennifer because I took the easy way out and bought an over the counter worm medication instead of going to the vet. Jennifer was the start to our breeding program and almost the finish of it. She is sorely missed and would have been 12 on the 27^th of May 2008.