It's the same dog. I was paranoid as hell when that picture won the photo contest all those years ago, and I used an alias.
His name is Dominus Tiberius. He's not in the AKC database because I had no interest in registering him until I got somewhere that had no grassroots schutzhund clubs, so I finally sent off his puppy pack so I could compete.
As for his schh titles, he was "titled" at a grassroots level event with people who did it for fun. I wasn't sure if the title counted or not, so I asked the pedigreedatabase people if they thought it counted, those folks said they did. I kept saying regionals because I didn't know what the word I was looking for was: trials. I never claimed he was UScA certified, just that I had a piece of paper. I was just getting ready to go to my first real trial.
link (only one actual reply, but I had a couple PM's too)
As for the whole deal with Annie, yeah, she's a year younger than I said she was. I know I made a mistake. I've heard it all a thousand times, and I simply didn't want to hear it again.
The "puppy I couldn't place". Eight of the nine pups from the first litter had been spoken for by seven weeks old. We intended to keep number nine as our pet. Later, when she was five months old, I came down on orders and found out I couldn't taker her with me, so I had to rehome her. I'm still in contact with her owner too.
Ty's OFAs- He's had his prelims done. When they came back, my vet commented on how he had "excellent hips!". Ok, I'll admit, I was just tooting my own horn on that one. Perhaps I'm a bit overconfident, but we'll see.
When I checked in tonight, I was on my way out the doorto go to work. This was a bigger can of worms than I could have handled quickly, so I decided to wait until I got home.
Online dog people are so crucial. I've learned from my mistakes, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen. I was hoping to have them stay behind me here, but your past has a way of finding you, especially when you've ****ed up as bad as me. Basically I was (well, am I guess) a BYB, but I'm trying to become better than one. God, how cliche does that sound!
I'm not going to stop doing dogs, I'm not going to stop learning. I'm going to continue to improve what I do, but I think I'm going to stop going to online dog sites, I just can't get ahead of my past.