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Spirit Ridge K9 Training & Rescue

PO Box 70,
Hillsburgh, Ontario, N0B 1Z0

E-mail: jim@spiritridge.net

"........ because sit happens"

Spirit Ridge's "Ochi" was born on October 1, 2011 in Tennesee - one of a litter of five Belgian Shepherd Dogs (Malinois). The whole litter was handed over to a local rescue shelter at the age of 5 weeks when their mother-bitch was killed. Our friends at the American Belgian Malinois Rescue Club (http://www.malinoisclub.com/abmc/) stepped in and within days transferred the litter to an experienced foster home in S. Carolina.

Spirit Ridge happened to put out 'feelers' for our future puppy - we were clearly looking for either of the two "other" varieties of Belgians (Tervurens or Groenendaels) in our feeler email to breeders and Belgian fanciers on our Yahoo Discussion Group.

As fate has it, the current foster home emailed us and told us about this available-for-adoption litter. Upon receiving this email and upon further reflection, it became clear to us that we could not, in all consciousness, call ourselves a `rescue` while at the same time turning our backs on these puppies-in-need.

As a result, we are pleased to announce that our newest addition to the Spirit Ridge family! I will be driving to S Carolina, with two of our Mals shotgun, to pick up this precious cargo the week before Christmas!

Spirit Ridge`s Ochi (formerly green girl) was named from the diminutive of the word `Ochos` (which is eight in Spanish - she will be our 8th Spirit Ridge dog!) will be nearly 3 months of age when she arrives and will be welcomed into our working home. Her training will begin in earnest and she will be meeting a LOT OF people and well adjusted dogs from whom we hope she will be learning many (but not all!) of her formative lessons.

Please stay tuned as more news, pictures and video clips are uploaded to this website.

We are very excited and looking forward to making Ochi an integral part of our Spirit Ridge pack.

Update: "Ochi" arrived at Spirit Ridge on December 20th and since then, has begun her training in earnest; at the same time, she has been meeting new furry friends and romping with them at every possible opportunity. Please enjoy some pictures below from her recent arrival
Agility Instructor welcoming her new agility puppy, "Ochi", at Spirit Ridge, Dec 20, 2011 "Ochi" at 14 weeks of age warming up to our "Sonic" (Right -4 yrs old)

"Ochi" getting accustomed to something very rare in Tennessee - SNOW! "Ochi" playing with Arrow (Groenendael) & Gemma (Tervuren) - THREE kinds of Belgian Shepherds