We just got this little lady off of the transporter's truck around 1am last night, after patiently awaiting her arrival for a whole week! She's VERY skinny and dehydrated, but in good spirits. We promptly gave her a bath and introduced her to her first raw meal -- that's going to take some convincing for her, haha, and then took her to bed to cuddle. "Banjo bred" puppies are just some of the most adorable things ever created, man.
I've been wanting to get something off of her sire for YEARS, probably since 2008 or so, when GDK decided his male out of the same litter (Homeboy) was done producing for good. I know GDK thought a hell of a lot of that dog, and bred a large number of bitches to Homeboy over his GRCH AND his GRCH's CH Son, who were also on his yard at the time. Aside from Homeboy himself, I personally know of three of his littermates that are damned good performance animals as well.
As for her mother, being a direct daughter of CH Coachise speaks for itself, but the fact that she is inbred on Coachise's MOMMA ChooChoo is what I really love about her. Jimmy Mayfield has told me numerous times that ChooChoo was one of the baddest bitches he's ever laid eyes on personally, not to mention one of the gamest, and coming from someone who saw so many of the great dogs that made up the early beginnings of the MAD/DSK dogs, that's a mighty big compliment. I'm not mad at that heavy dose of Boomerang/Arts Missy on ChooChoo's bottom side, either.
So, naturally, I'm very excited about this little girl, as she encompasses two VERY highly-sought after dogs into one pedigree, off of working dogs herself. I couldn't have asked for a better bred addition to the Banjo-side of things, and it doesn't hurt that she's positively BEAUTIFUL either.