When I visited Terry in February of 2003 (when I was in Texas to pick up Ty), I saw her young male "Slash V Steel Smoke". I had seen him as a puppy when we picked up Solo and Rosie and I was very impressed when I saw him as a 1 year old. At Home again, I kept him in my mind. I rather thought that I would one day breed a female to him. When Terry told me about the nice litter he had had with a female called "Val" (owned by Rowdy Robinson, Double R and Russ Ford, Aggieland) and that the litter would be repeated in fall 2005, I thought about getting a male from that litter. Since I really have enough males here, I asked Elke Ritter from Spotted Horse Ranch if she would co-own a male with me. So we arranged everything and in march 2006 I was on my way to Texas again. I was very lucky too to meet Tex´ mom and two of his older brothers at a trial in Brenham, Texas (see pictures below).

Tex will be living at Elke, Axel and Matthias Ritter´s place in the north of Germany after his 4 weeks in rabies quarantine at our place here. This gives me the opportunity to evaluate him farther more. We truly expect a lot from him as he is not only a gorgeous blue merle, very correct and absolutely cute. He has a remarkable pedigree, great parents and relatives (I saw his dam and brothers at the trial work cattle......wow) and an absolutey great, calm and laid back temperament. Nothing can really upset him (also not driving 4 1/2 hours to Dallas in heavy thunderstorms and flash floods, usually takes 2 hours, being late and miss the airplane because of severe floodings all around Dallas/Fort Worth, bringing back the car in all that chaos, getting on the bus to go to the terminal, taking elevators and stairs in the terminal with all our luggage, booking a new flight back, getting a new car and driving back to Terry´s place, this time not so much flooding anymore and arriving very tired, telling all the dogs: hey, I have been to Germany, and back. It did RAIN all the time there. And now I am hungry).