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A Dream - Praise God - A Reality

24 years + ago the most gorgeous site I have ever seen, two incredibly elegant looking creatures were in my view. Never seeing this breed before I inquired as to what I was feasting my eyes upon. The gentleman replied "Borzoi" and wistfully they were all out of sight!

Never even imaging that I could acquire such an magnificent animal, years passed before my most gracious husband stated: "It is time!!"

Much appreciation goes to our brother, Greg, as he built us our computer in which gave us access to a powerful tool - the web. At last!! On to finding out about Borzoi from the AKC page. What a wonderful reference and full of confirmation as to how and why's of acquiring this breed.

After contacting the BCOA secretary, she informed us as to what breeders in our area were "interviewing" for a possible sale of one of their puppies!! First on our list was Laurie and Tom Kasowski who were very instrumental in pointing us towards Christina Bradley - Virshina. How can we thank you both enough for changing our lives - making a dream a reality!

Second, a huge "thank you" to Jennifer Beach-Buda - how many emails and questions did we send to her and yet she still was gracious. Words cannot even begin to thank her enough for her passion and love of this breed. Thank you, Jennifer, for all your time and energy in assisting us to find out more about Borzoi.

Now - Chris, not only had one litter of puppies, but two!! 22 puppies!! We embarked upon eleven, as she had already had the others placed in their respected homes. What a sight!! JOY!! Eleven four month old puppies!! Not even expecting that one would be ours, we savored every moment on the ground allowing the puppies to lick and jump on us until one puppy laid by my side and looked at the others as to say "These are mine new found family!!" Chris smiled and stated that this boy is ours if we would like to acquire him!! Disbelief!! Shock!! What an beautiful boy and he is ours!! How can we thank you enough, Chris for allowing us such a pleasure- such JOY.

"Yuri", given name by my former boss, David Kurtzman from Aspen Realty, who stated, " how about Yuri Gagarin the first cosmonaut - the first man in space??" Perfect!!

This is our story - our new beginning of JOY.

Kirk and I have been volunteers at the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Rehab center for over ten years and we are both on the Board of Directors. We are licensed in caring and rehabbing wildlife and also certified in homeopathic remedies for wildlife.

Our main objective is to care and give back to Mother Nature what Mother Nature has given us - which again is JOY!

To find out about LTWC, go to:
www.LTWC.org

Kirk is a gifted, licensed security technician for over 17 years now, and proprietor of Randy's Locksmith and Safe and Tahoe Security Center, South Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, established 1985.

Kirk completed his basic training for Douglas County Sheriff Search & Rescue on October 2, 2002 and voted in as a Search & Rescue member as of April 24, 2003.

Kirk and his partner, "Abby", are part of the Douglas County K-9 Rescue team! Abby and Kirk are in training for Abby's certification to be an official K-9 Rescue Dog!! We are so proud of them!