Marshfield's Aoide NA II "Diva" 
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Owned by Todd Chrisman, Marshfield, Massachusetts.

NA III test report
NA II test report
PennHIP .30/NA
Diva's News on the Blog
(click the orange links for the actual forms)

Sire:  VC INT CH Sharp Shooter's Prairie Dancer MH  
Dam:  Dove vom Bergsteiger, UT III
Gender:  Female 
Whelped:  August 17, 2005
Weight:  55 lbs. Height: 23 inches
Color:  Black and White Ticked   Pedigree

8/19/06 Diva earned a NA Prize II at the Ottawa Valley Chapter
6/5/06  Diva earned a NA Prize III at the Sebasticook Chapter test in lousy weather.  Read more about it here.

Diva was an outgoing and noisy puppy.  I have high hopes for her.  She's the product of my first breeding and (I hope) the future of Marshfield Kennel.  The call name Diva came first.  I described Dove to one of my underwriters, who noted, "Oh, she's a DIVA!"  Sounded like the perfect name for "Dove Jr."  Diva is Latin for "goddess" and was originally used to describe top opera stars.  There's a certain connotation that personality flaws are forgiven because of the level of excellence in singing.

Aoide is one of the original three Greek muses, the muse of song.  Songs and poetry carried the oral history from generation to generation.  (The other two muses represented dance and memory.)  Diva carries the genetics of generations of great dogs, but she'll have to stand on her own four feet if her genes are to be passed to the next.

Diva is beautifully ticked and a nice looking bitch.  She's a bit long-coupled, but not overly long.  She's faster than any of my other dogs, and I wonder if that has something to do with her long body.  Diva is smart like her mother, which causes some troubles when training.  She's very apt to skip all the searching around and just go to where the birds were last time.