Christi was so very tiny when I first saw her at a temperament test for the litter.  I was going to take her litter brother, but when I saw her "get up and go" and desire to please, I changed my mind and asked if I could have her.  The answer was yes.  I picked her up and from that moment on she was the "one for me".

She took to Obedience training like it was the thing she was put on this earth to do.  No matter what it was or how many times we had to do it over, it was fine with her.  With a "let's do it again" attitude, she never felt that she did it wrong.  The first day in novice class we went "High In Trial" and after that we had many "HIT".  Christi is also titled in agility, which she thought was the greatest because she could go as fast as she wanted, "she thought".

Christi and I were working on her UDX title when I looked at her beautiful dark black eyes.  I noticed that her left eye looked blue.  I thought that it must be the light in the training room.  A few weeks later that eye looked light gray and I knew that something was wrong.  We went to see the doctor and learned the bad news.  My Christi had a tumor in her left eye and the eye would have to be removed.

A few weeks after the surgery, I tried to slowly see what we had as far as training.  My beautiful little Christi was her old self again and wanted to work so bad.  I was concerned about her jumping but slowly working her, she managed to jump fine.  Of course the agility had to stop, I did not want her to get hurt. 

We were ready to start to compete in classes again and get our Obedience Championship (OTCH) when I noticed her other eye looked gray.  Back to the doctors we went and received some more bad news.

Christi and I are now competing in Rally where I can talk to her, until she can no longer see.  That's where you will find us.  With her attitude, as long as she will be able to see some things we will keep on working (with lots of care).

Doris and my beautiful little Christi