Mountain Wave Teff

OTSC Registration: Full registration:

Registration#: OTSC-F-2895

Breeder: Leslie Allen

Owner: Leslie Allen

Sire: Mountain Wave Barley

Dam: Gretel vom Hallerhof

Call Name: Teff

Date of Birth: MAY 28, 2022

Date of Death:

Other Registrations:

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Gender: female

Color: Sable & White

Height:

Weight: 58 pounds (26.31 kg)

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Distinguishing Features:

Hips: will test at 24 months

Elbows:

Eyes: CEA N/N

MDR1: MDR1 N/N

Other Health Issues: Clear of all disease mutations tested by Embark. Clear by parentage for CN. DMS AabbCC (low risk category)

Notes:
Besides being an active farm dog, Teff is a loving member of our family (human and canine). She loves to spend time indoors as well as outdoors. Her manners inside the house are excellent. She is very family-oriented and loves to chill in the house, close to her people. With us, Teff is a cuddler who seeks close physical contact. With strangers, she is more reserved. She warms up quickly to visitors to our home and will allow petting, but does not cuddle with strangers as she does with her own family. When she is away from home, she stays quiet and polite around strangers but would rather not have them pet her. She does well at the vet, tolerates shots and exams well, and is very easy to groom (she loves it). She attended obedience and nose work classes and did well in both. She quickly picked up on nose work and was all business about it, but I have not had time to pursue this further. Teff is the youngest in a multi-generational pack of six dogs. She gets along very well with our other dogs, shows zero resource guarding, and is affectionate and deferential to our elderly dogs. When she is away from home, she is reserved with strange dogs until she has a chance to get to know them. Teff has hiked many miles with me and can be trusted off-leash. She takes it upon herself to check in with me frequently and not let me out of her sight. She can be recalled easily.

Intact: yes

Plans to Breed: yes

Known Offspring:

Working Dog: yes

Working Description: Teff was born and raised on our small farm with sheep, chickens, horses. She is already excellent at varmint control and is especially adept at catching mice. She will alert on hawks and other aerial predators and will run beneath them to drive them off. She understands that one of her jobs is to keep deer off of our property and she does so enthusiastically. We have not yet started Teff’s training on sheep but in her daily exposure to our routines she is showing moderate drive and has a quiet, non-threatening way that the sheep trust. Teff has been known to give the older ewes she’s grown up around a face lick greeting through the fence, which they allow. I believe that as Teff matures, she’ll make a good dog to use around lambs, which has always been her grandmother Kelsey’s special job around our place.