On February 8, 2011 our girl UKC GRCH/AKC CH/CKC CH/IABCA INT’L CH Kiva-AH’s A Moment In Time, CGC “Journey” gave birth to her first litter of five little boys and one little girl.  The litter was sired by UKC GRCH/AKC CH Fuji’s After Burner, CGC “Turbo”. 

As a small breeder located in the city I had not planned to keep a puppy from this litter… And since I only kept girls the one girl we had was promised already.  I’ve never kept a male from this breed and had never planned to because of the girls on premise… However, a friend said, “If you decide to keep a boy he could come visit when his mom was in season.” That opened a door of possibilities I’d not considered before so I began to really watch the litter in a different light.

There was this one little yellow collar boy that kept catching my eye. I had always called him the “observer” since he usually would be sitting back away from the pack while they were being naughty and rowdy; rushing to the front of the pen when someone entered the room.  He was quiet and observant but out of the six of them the most relaxed and attentive and obviously much attached to me.  I couldn’t shake the feeling that perhaps this little boy had a place here with us.

I had the litter evaluated with little yellow collar heading the list of pick puppy for the litter.  At that point his fate and mine were sealed.  I had already come to adore him, was already deciding on what I was going to name him, had announced to my friend that yes, okay…. I was keeping a male from this litter.  She laughed and said, “Hell has finally frozen over, Lynn is keeping a boy dog!”  Little did I know what journey we were about to embark on!

Named AH’s Gabriel’s Song Of The Trump aka “Seven” because Gabriel was the seventh Arch Angel in Heaven, seven is the number of perfection of Heaven and my favorite number, and because he is the actually the seventh American Eskimo Dog I’ve kept for myself in this breed.  He has absolutely been a gift from Heaven to me!!!

Seven attended his first Novice Puppy shows in July of 2011 earning 1 RBIMBS Puppy and 3 BIMBS Puppy out of six shows that weekend!  He finished his UKC Champion title September 2011 at the tender age of seven months.  He completed his UKC Grand Champion title April 2012 at the age of fourteen months.  Seven ended the year 2012 #2 in UKC’s Top Ten.  He also completed his CGC title February 2012 at one year of age. 

Our young man has earned multiple RBIMBS & BIMBS awards along with multiple group wins in his young years and is currently ranked in UKC’s Top Ten for 2013.  He is an AKC CH with one point needed to finish his AKC GR CH title and major pointed CKC Canadian needing just a few single points to finish his CKC CH title. 

To have earned the rank and title of National Grand Champion/National Best Of Breed and a Best In Multi-Breed Show at our National show is an honor of a lifetime!  Something we’ve worked toward for a very long time...  To have it actually come to fruition was an amazing thing!  I have to say that when our judge called the armband number for his pick of the class… I actually had to look at my number to make sure I heard correctly…  You could have knocked me over with a feather I was so overwhelmed! 

I wish to thank all our judges who have awarded Seven’s accomplishments these past two years and especially honorable judge Patrick O’Donnell for his placement and award of Nat’l GR CH/Nat’l BOB to Seven and the esteemed award of Best In Multi-Breed Show on our National day!

He did quite well at the 2011 UKC Washington Classic. He earned one Reserve Best In show Novice Puppy and three Best In Show Novice Puppy out of six shows total. These are his ribbons we took back to the office on Monday...