Leonivers
Puppies arrived on 27 December - see the photos here
Amber and Deena are our Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers. Nova Scotia is on the east coast of Canada and the word "toller" comes from the activity that the dogs are famous for, tolling or playing to entice ducks to come within the hunter's range. They belong to the Retrievers, along with the well known Goldens, Labradors and Flat Coats and the lesser known Curly Coated and Cheasapeake Bays.
We live in Switzerland, just south of Berne, in the foothills of the alps. We have always had Golden Retrievers. Our next door neighbour had a Toller and we fell in love with this wonderful package of energy. After a 9 months wait we went to pick up our Decoymans Piper Annabel (Amber) from England in summer 2002.
The breeder wanted to keep one of the puppies in the litter and told us that it was really difficult to make up his mind which one to give us. We are very happy how things turned out!
In the summer 2005 Deena, Aberdeen of Clan Buchanan joined our family. It's going to be exiting to see how she developes!
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