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Last updated: 7-20-08

** 7-20-08 ** -- Major overhaul going on! Take a look around. -- Updated Available Page. -- Updated Upcoming Litters. ** 1-25-08 ** -- Added new puppy pictures! ** 1-13-08 ** -- Puppies are here! See the Upcoming Litters Page for information. ** 12-1-07 ** -- Finally added pictures of the puppies! ** 10-28-07 ** -- Tons of updates. Still not caught up, but added new pages for most of the Violet X Merlin pups and also added new photos of the lovely Rainyday's Boom Chicka Boom. ** 7-07-07 ** -- Tons of Updating going on! ** 5-5-07 ** -- Added puppy pictures! ** 3-14-07 ** -- Tons of updates throughout. -- Information on new puppies! -- New pics of the Glory X Baker puppies added. ** 1-09-07 ** -- A few basic edits -- Added a new page for titles in 2007 ** 12-13-06 ** -- Updated Available page -- Updated Upcoming Litters ** 9-20-06 ** -- Updated Upcoming Litters Page! -- Updated Recent Accompishments! -- New photos of Spark ** 8-1-06 ** -- There are updates throughout the site and more to come! ** 6-26-06 ** -- Added new pics of Rainyday's Kiss Me Kate and Rainyday's The Sweetest Thing -- Updated the Recent Accomplishments Page -- Updated New Titles in 2006 ** 6-7-06 ** -- Working on individual pages for the Rose X Baker pups -- Updated Available page -- Updated Upcoming Litters page -- Added more nationals pictures ** 4-30-06 ** -- Added new photos of the Rose pups! -- Updated Recent Accomplishments Page. -- Updated New Titles in 2006. -- Started work on a Nationals Page. ** 4-23-06 ** -- Added new photos of Rose's pups -- Worked on Recent Accomplishments -- Added new photos of Rainyday's Imagine ** 3-29-06 ** -- Rose's puppies are here! Check out the Upcoming Litters page for a quick peek! ** 3-14-06 ** - Created new pages for each of the Violet X Baker pups - Updated Recent Accomplishments - Updated New Titles in 2006 - Updated Available - Updated Spark's Upcoming Litters - Updated Baker's Upcoming Litters - Added new pictures: -- ASCA/UKC CH Rainyday's Hard Habit to Break OA OAJ RS-N NAC JS-N NJC GS-O OGC -- Rainyday's Catcher in the Rye RN NA NAJ JS-N -- ASCA CH Rainyday's Remember When AKC/ASCA CD PT OA OAJ ** 2-13-06 ** -- Updated Recent Accomplishments -- Updated New Titles in 2006 ** 1-24-06 ** - Emptied this box for quicker page load times. - Added new pictures of: -- Rainyday's Born to Fly -- Rainyday's Clear and Present Danger -- Cobbercret Propwash Obla-De -- CH Rainyday's Free As A Bird CGC -- Rainyday's Something to Talk About - Updated Recent Accomplishments Page - Updated New Titles in 2005 - Updated New Titles in 2006

While we are usually preoccupied with conformation and performance dogs, once in a while we hear the story of a dog that is special in the original capacity of dogs -- as a true and loyal companion.

We've recently had the opportunity to hear the story of one such dog, an unusual ally in a foreign, and often hostile land.

Written by: Dr. Carleton Phillips, Advisor on Nonproliferation, Office of National Security Affairs, CPA Baghdad , Iraq and Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction, United States Department of State, Washington , D.C.

Xuxha (pronounced Shusha) is a working dog with flowing side gait and flawless foot timing, but you won’t see her in the show ring this summer. Xuxha started out as a scrawny, tick-covered Baghdad street dog used to war and fearful of humans. Hired off the street, groomed, well-fed, and reintroduced to human companionship, she now is chief watch dog for the Iraq International Center for Science and Industry - a State Department Project in Baghdad. Xuxha can be credited with alerting her American and Iraqi friends with ‘trouble-brewing’ warnings before human senses were aware. Xuxha is busy rearing a litter of five plump pups all of whom plan on following her into the ‘working dog’ world.

Xuxha with her best friend, and savior, Dr. Alex Dehgan

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