Brier name history

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

Ok,

Kaycee:  Foxfire's Frosting On The Kake,  could not use puppy from hell as 
her registered name but I wanted too...  Kaycee came to me on Thursday 
December 23, 1989 and boy was she sick.  Of course I did not recognize that 
she was ill and of course there were no vets open all weekend and back then 
there were no ER's for dogs where I lived.  She had: coccidia, giardia, 
round worms, hook worms and whip worms.  Needless to say she was not happy 
at all but was a real trooper till Monday when I got her in to see the 
vet.  Her first few months of life necessitated a lot of medication and 
fecal samples, some of these parasites are hell to deal with, and back then 
I knew noting about parasites. At 7 months old Kaycee got Parvo and we 
almost lost her.  But she had the moxie to hang in there.  By the way she 
was fully vaccinated, this was a new strain of parvo at the time, [KF-11] 
and her immune system was so compromised from everything else she had been 
dealing with it was no wonder she contracted the parvo virus.  You would 
never know now though that she ever had a sick day...  Her name tributes 
her father who's call name is Frosty, btw, Frosty is like 14 and still 
going strong I hear.  Also her name is a play on puppy from hell, as she 
was surely the frosting on the cake.  Also she shined, like frosting on the 
cake.  We love our momma dawg Kaycee Anne, "Anne" as in Queen Anne... :-)))

More later,

Gina