Take My Breath Away by Berlin

Sél. OH-LALA des Monts d'en Crauzille

Those we love don't go away,
they walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
still loved, still misse and very dear.

Sélectionnée France 1999, Italy 2001
HD 0/0, CEA/FD/PHTVL/PHPV/PRA/CATARACT clear, ERG clear, CSNB Carrier * full breeding confirmation in France, Italy, Austria

January 23, 1998 (France) to April 14, 2010, 3:50 p.m.
Sire: IATUS des Sources des Fontassault (Pré-Sélectionné France)
Dam: PENELOPE du Clos des Cèdres (confirmée France)

Oh-Lala came to me shortly before her third birthday. I heard that the breeder of my Zabou wanted to place this girl, and immediately asked her, if she could come here. Pascale actually did not want to give her to a breeder, as she was CSNB carrier, but because she heard that I test my puppies when one of the parents has this "gene defect" , she said yes. Therewith, an over years wish turned to become true: for a long time I had already wanted a grey Briard puppy, and now I got a grownup girl which was HD clear, which had passed the French Selection und which had the full breeding confirmation (at Pascale she had already had two litters).

On December 14, 2000, I went off to Belgium to pick up Oh-Lala. I had already seen some photos from her, but life outstripped everything: dreamlike character, cuddly, funny, perfect standard size, ....., at the first meet she did as if we knew each other forever, just a dreamlike girl. One night we spent together in Belgium, then we travelled back home with Oh-Lala. Everything was perfect, no hesitating to get into my car, rests during the trip, and having reached home she went for a walk without lead and coming back immediately when called.

I had expected that I have to keep Oh-Lala separated from my at that time highly pregnant Yazoo, but this was wrong. From the first moment they contacted with each other totally friendly and from the first night on they were sleeping together on the bed. And when Yazoo's puppies were three weeks old, Oh-Lala was allowed to join the raising, which really pleased her, and Yazoo enjoyed the deserved rests from her puppies.

     Summer 2001

Oh-Lala met all the conditions for breeding in Austria. In February 2002 I went for mating in Netherlands and in April 2002 I had my G litter from Oh-Lala. A second try to have a litter with her, failed: unfortunately she had a miscarriage after my Frizzy in autumn 2005, and I have not made another try, as I wanted to breed with Zabou (not foreseeing that she would be infected at her first mating with "incurable" bacteria, and that I would, therewith, be confronted with major difficulty).

Oh-Lala has not been shown very often by me, as at the time when she was in the best age for the show ring, I was not seen much at shows, but whenever she was in the ring she came out with excellent results. In October 2001 she was at the Italian Selection and National Specialty together with Yazoo and came back home with a brilliant result: she did not only turn to be best of all presented dogs concerning character, but also came out of the ring with Exc.3 among 11 fawn bitches (she had been put to the fawns by the show committee as by mistake her pedigree says she is grey although she was born black).

Selection Italy October 2001	Club show Austria May 2004	Club show Austria May 2005

Even when Oh-Lala was aged, nobody realized as she enjoyed life so much until shortly before she left me, she played with the others and especially loved to play with pups and small breeds. She was a most wonderful playmate for all my litters, also the Chinese Cresteds and Yorkies. They loved to toll up and down on her and have fun with that girl. She leaves a big hole for all the future pups. I still can't believe she is gone, it was so unexpected.

I thank Pascale from the deepness of my heart that she handed over this girl to me. She was an enrichment for the family and I enjoyed each and every day during the past nearly eight years with Oh-Lala. And thanks to Oh-Lala for all the love, happiness and fun as well as success she brought to this home. I will never ever forget her, I miss her so very much ......

Oh-Lala's special success:

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