Soothsayer German shepherds first started with Lily.

We picked Lily out of three identical pups

and she cried all the way home.

She was a model pup and a very quick learner.

        We were hooked.          

          
            She slept with my youngest son at night, and they became very firm friends. Till this day he claims fame for training her.

  She was a very vocal girl and soon learnt to ask for her food.    

        Our second dog and the one responsible for most of the Soothsayer generation was Herman.          

     What a placid dog he was and he just loved everyone.

Not as quick a learner as Lily,

   but he made up for it with charm.   

 Then along comes Paige. Now Paige was our Essex girl, our first black who loved nothing better than to destroy things.     

The sofa, the carpet, the kitchen flooring.....Twice!

Numerously raiding the fridge and freezer.  

    No child lock could keep her out, many a time we would come home to a VERY portly pup.       

 she slowed down a lot, but would still, on occasions open the fridge door. Just to let me know what she was still capable of.

   Tia is next. My sweet gentle Tia.

Hated being told off so much that she wouldn’t do anything wrong.

I call her my smiler, every time you look at her the end of her tail would wag,

just like a rattle snake, a trait she has passed on to her two daughters.

Nothing could prepare me for my fifth. Salem.

                A Black dog.                  

     He had all the good traits of the others rolled into him, he talked like Lily and was so clever, had all of Herman’s charm, which he lavished on the women visitors.

You could almost see what he was thinking; he was what I called my Lager Lout.

Loud, but very loveable.

 Willow was next. From a friend in Kent. Note: I still call him friend.

She was so focused on me that she will not listen to anyone else.

Hates to be separated from me. She knew when I'm was about to leave the room and made sure she was with me.

       Cordelia was the first pup that we kept.         

She is out of Herman and Tia.

Has the best qualities of both of them and carried on the

Soothsayer generation.

  When Tia had her second litter, she was studded to Salem and

Had 11 all black pups.

We had no intention of keeping any of them, but Alice had different ideas She become our eighth and last dog for a long time,

(or so we thought).   

 Betty came back to us when her owner’s marriage split up.   

Alice found it the hardest to except her into the family.

 Alice and Betty just never got on together, and Alice would never miss out on an opportunity to launch an attack on her. Betty most of the time used to ignore her, but sometimes she would retaliate which would wind Alice up even more...

Hence Alice was given the nick name of the Poison Dwarf

(Due to her being only 19" high).   

    Then Along came Desi......     

Desi was born a single pup to mum Betty in September 2003;

She was born by C-section after being 2 days overdue as you can imagine she was a big baby and she grew and grew.

She was so big she could not walk properly until she was 3 weeks old.

 I was worried about it but the vet assured me that as she got older she would cope fine as her legs muscles strengthened.

 She had all the attention she needed and was a very quiet pup until 3 weeks of age when she realized there was a world outside her box.

 She did not want to be cuddled was very independent and wanted to be with the big dogs.

I knew then that she would need a very experienced home, she never had to Share anything, with littermates. To her it was all hers.

   The older Desi got the naughtier she got, and the more I was worried about getting the right home for her. A novice home was not for her...

      Then disaster struck.        

   We had fallen very much in love with her... So she stayed.    

 In October of 2004 the previous owners of Betty got in touch with me and announced they were a family again.

  So in January of 2005 Betty returned to her previous owners.      

 All my girls are now getting on in age (with the exception of Desi) and in 2004 year we had three of them spayed.

Tia, Willow and Desi.

 Cordelia gave us our Horatio...Born in July 2005.

 Sadly we have lost our beautiful Paige in July 2006.

She had Malignant Tumours, we can't express the pain we felt at losing her so early in life.

  End of September 2006, Cordy has given us our last litter of pups.

 5 in total, by C.section, and was spayed at the same time.

  Horatio has  been hip scored, and he is scored a total of

  9, and is offered at stud to approved bitches.

Surprise, Surprise... Out of Cordy's last litter we have kept a boy.

Sometimes it is just too hard to part with them.

We have called him Vinnie.

Vinnie has now been Hip scored, a total of 13, we hope he'll be as good a stud as Horatio.

Sadly we said goodbye to our Lily

who would have  been 14 in July 2008.

Also our most wonderful boy Herman who was 13 in April 2008.

 All the others are doing well, even our little Alice

(who the vet gave a 2 year life span to) is doing well.

She's back on Propalin, and will be for the rest of her life.

I guess I spoke to soon.

Without much warning we lost our wonderful Salem.

He showed no unusual signs of being ill.

He passed away around 3.30am on 21st Oct 2008

The bottom of my world has fallen out.

On the 14th July 2009. We travelled to Torfaen

and brought home Rhys.

He has settle in very well.

When old enough he will have all the relevant health test done.

December 21st 2009 we had to say goodbye to our little Alice.

Something had caused her to have a Severe Torsion.

Total shock and heartbreak, as like her dad Salem,

there was no warning.

There is a huge hole in our household.

August the 6th 2010 has us saying goodbye to our Tia.

She saw her 12th birthday in July.

She will be running with all the others now.

She's free from pain.

But my heart is broken.

LILY