Beulie and Basha

I showed you some photographs of Beulie's parents, Terrell and Mitzi, but she only actually saw them one time each. It's her twin sister that she knew, and half-sister and aunt that she actually lived with.

I mentioned that Aunt Demi was a bona fide service dog until she was released due to a medical problem. When Beulie was seven months old (July, 2007) our family met and picnicked on the CCI campus with Demi's family so aunt and niece had a good romp. Remember, Beulie's father, Terrell, is the son of Bobby, who is Demi's dad. So Terrell and Demi are half-siblings. I should draw a chart, this is so confusing to me! After Demi was diagnosed she was returned to us so she and Beulie spent the last month together when Beulie left the CCI training program.

(Click on the photo for a closer look.)

In the meantime, Parisse, because of her diagnosed "strangeness," was released from training at 10 months. Her father is also Terrell (some of these male dogs are busy guys) so Beulie and Parisse are half-sisters. In this photo they are 4 months and 10-1/2 months (Terrell was VERY busy.)


Basha, Beulie's twin, attended the same training classes so we saw her often. If there are only two puppies in a litter, is the second-born still considered to be the runt? Basha was born with the red collar (CCI's classification for numero uno) and Beulie was second, with a blue collar. Basha was always considerably larger. Here are the twins at 5-1/2 months. Again, I am certain the sibs had some kind of recognition system. Whenever they were in class together they were disruptive and had to be separated.

For the record, I don't know when Beulie's name was changed from Beuli to Beulie. Usually the caretakers get to suggest names and spellings for the puppies and apparently named the blue-collared pup Beuli. But, by the time we received her from the CCI office, a final "e" had been added to her name and it was much later that I even learned that her original name had been different.