Toby (Ch. Briarlea Restless Robin x Briarlea Sabine)

He is 10 years old this Fall. He is a very handsome Bouv. We love him dearly. He is moving slow but otherwise healthy, maybe a little rotund. He arrived when my son went to Kindergarten and now my son is a Sophomore in High School! Toby has been great with the little dog too. She's his best friend really. Thought you would like this photo. Thank you for breeding such a wonderful dog. Hope all is well with you.

I have attached a couple of photos of him to show what he has been up to since he left Wisconsin.

Thanks so much for the photo; mostly thank you so much for loving this dog for the past 10 years....Sunny

I turned 60 on 9/11/11; for my birthday my husband Jim presented me with a wonderful surprise ~ a cruise to Alaska with my sons, their wives and their kids. Here we are, on the boat - Jim, me, Anthony and Crystal. It was great to be able to spend time with every one of them.

Home now, it seems all the tomatoes DIDN'T freeze!! So, I hauled out the wheelbarrow and filled it with lovely sweet red tomatoes (Jim can freeze this batch!) It seems the zillions of butternut squash did freeze however so the cows will be feasting yet.

My friend Phyllis and I are packing our bags (and dogs) and heading south to St. Louis on Friday for the Bouvier National Specialty -- this is the annual show for mostly conformation people who have Bouviers -- but they do provide a venue for herding which is where we'll be found with Trouble over the weekend. She's racked up a lot of titles this summer at the tender age of 2 so it'll be fun to see how she does next year as a more mature dog.