Bryning Goldfinch (Wren)

Bryning Goldfinch

Border Collie

Seal and White

D.O.B. 7th March 2007

BVA Hip scored 3:7

Wren is genetically clear of TNS, CEA/CH and NCL.

Eye tested 'clear' (CEA/PRA/PLL)

Goniodysgenesis tested 23 02 09: Unaffected

Wren competes in Agility, and has had the occasional appearance in the breed ring too.
She is a very active little dog, although usually busy doing something she shouldn't.
Following wins in G3 and G4 agility classes, Wren is now G5, although she has only attended a very few shows due to work commitments and time out to have two litters of super puppies!

2012 and Wren is looking pretty good, she will probably have her 3rd litter late this spring, so hopefully we will get a fair amount of training and competing in before then!

She is really naughty, but she is dead cute too. A bit of a handful to train, she is very self opinionated (she thinks she is just great).
Wren is the most impatient creature I have ever met, if she doesn't immediately understand what we are asking of her, her nose will start to wrinkle up, and then she starts fooling around instead of concentrating! Which is (rather unfortunately from an educational point of view) very very funny.
She is such a whizzy little dog, she loves working with us and guessing what we want - which usually isn't what we wanted at all, but very much to her liking! Funny that......
Agility wise, she may not be the fastest of our girls, but she is the one that tries the hardest! She literally throws herself around, usually with a high pitched whine! She is though, rather independant, which makes for an interesting mix! She is our very own "giddy kipper"!

Wren is seal and white. Her hairs are very dark brown, tipped with gold, so giving the impression of being very dark chocolate or 'mahogany' colour. On her neck, she is lighter still, looking almost sable coloured. Her pigment is black, so her nose eye rims and lips are black (in a 'brown' or 'chocolate' coloured dog they will be brown/chocolate too.) She was born this colour, although her colour changed greatly as she was growing, she has ended up the same colour as she was born. She is not a 'tri colour' (tan point) (indeed, she cannot be both tricoloured and seal!)although she does have gold 'spectacles' around her eyes, and her 'feathering' is lighter coloured still (cream/silver colour). She also has the same white base colour to her hair that our dilute(blue) has, looking almost like white hairs when you part the coat. Where her hair is shorter, the colour is darker, so her head ears and legs are darker coloured than her body and tail.
Depending on the light, she can look nearly black, or nearly blue, or nearly chocolate!

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