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Am/Can Ch Spring Fever de Sud x Am/Can Ch Northwind's
Stormin' Norma CD, LCM, CGC, CAV
These photos were taken when just hours old.
If you're wondering about the names, I always give them a temporary
name until their new owner decides their permanent name. It also
helps me and potential owners talk about the puppies - I just get
mixed up calling them male one and two... Since the dam is Stormin'
Norma, and we are Northwind, all the puppies are named for various
winds found worldwide. Six girls, two boys. Ladies are shown first.
I was quite surprised when they arrived - I don't usually have
puppies with this much white on them. You just have to love whippet
color genetics!
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"Bali" - A strong east wind at
the eastern end of Java.
She has asymmetrical face markings - dark brindle on the
non show side and white on the show side. She is fawn brindle
with tons of white - looks like she's wearing pants. |
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"Chinook" - A type of foehn wind.
Refers to the warm downslope wind in the Rocky Mountains
that may occur after an intense cold spell when the temp
could rise by 20 to 40 degrees in a matter of minutes. Also
known as the Snow Eater.
She has asymmetrical face markings with the dark brindle
being on the show side. The non-show side is completely
white except for some color on the ear. She is wearing brindle
pants on the show side. |
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"Maria" - A fictional wind popularized
in "Paint Your Wagon" and by the Kingston Trio,
whose name may have originated with the 1941 book "Storm"
by George Stewart.
This is the typical marking that I get - white blaze on
the face, full white neck and brindle covering most of the
body. Four white feet, white chest and white tip of the
tail. She looks very much like her mother. |
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"Sumatra" - A squall with violent
thunder, lighting, and rain, which blows at night in the
Malacca Straits, especially during the southwest monsoon.
It is intensified by strong mountain breezes.
Other than the single spot on the top of her head and color
on the right ear, she is white back to the shoulders. The
rest of the body is dark fawn brindle, four white feet,
white tip to the tail and white chest. The little spot of
white on the hip will most likely disappear over time. |
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"Williwaw" - A sudden blast of
wind descending from a mountainous coast to the sea, in
the Strait of Magellan or the Aleutian Islands.
She has asymmetrical face markings - brindle on the show
side. She has several patches of fawn brindle color on the
body and color that starts to go down her tail, but there
is a horizontal white line across it. Color again on the
rear show side leg. |
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"Zephyr" - The ancient Greek name
for the west wind, which generally is light and beneficial.
A soft, gentle breeze.
She has a blaze on her face and more brindle that the others,
limited to the body area. Legs and feet are white. |
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"Boreas" A ancient greek name for
north winds blowing from the Hungarian basin into the Adriatic
Sea.
He has asymmetrical face markings with white on the show
side. Color on the show side ear and patches of fawn brindle
on the body. He has a funny spot right at the top of the
tail and he looks like he's partially wearing pants. |
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"Pampero" - A west or southwest
wind in Southern Argentina. This wind (often violently)
picks up during the passage of a cold front of an active
low passing by.
He has color over one eye and just touching the other.
A funny spot center of the top of his head and then all
white except for wearing fawn brindle pants.
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