June 15th 2006

Only 5 months after we lost Ezrah, we lost Robber too. She was very, very old, but put up a fight until the end. The last year was difficult and I picked up the phone to call the vet many times. But last Tuesday I finally had to make the call.
Arno came to our place, Will was at home, I had Sterre on my lab almost the whole time. And then she was gone. This grand old lady. It is so quiet. No dog to bark us awake at 5 AM .....

Here is Robber's story:

Robber came to live with us in the Autumm of 1996, she was 5 years old and had never been running in a sleddogteam. Within a few weeks she ran her first pulkrace with Chanouk in Diever, in the North of the Netherlands.

Although Robber is not from workinglines, she is a very good in the team. She has run lead AND singlelead. She is always bossing around the team.

At home she is more interested in me than in the other dogs, unless they make too much noise ....... She is very much in catching cats and ducks and birds ..... Oh, well perhaps she had been a huntingdog in former live.

It was in 1998 that Robber suffered from a very bad pyometria. She needed surgery and untill now we think that this ruined her. She got a really bad coat and has slown down in speed. It looked like that her condition was getting worse and worse and we took her to the vet in the Summer of 2000. But all test were fine. No kidneyproblems, no diabetics. We decided to have her coat cut of. And all of a sudden the good old Robber came back. She is doing fine and we even think that she will be running in the team again. Her thick vilten coat got her so hot and she just couldn't get rid of her bodyheat. And that made her bad and ill. Can you imagine wearing 2 furcoats in warm weather and no change to take them off?

Robber went to the snow with is for the first time in January 1997. She was over the moon and had a great time.

Robber is the Mum of our boy Berber and she the older sister of Chanouk. She is a dog with a strong character and since she lives with us we know whom Berber takes after !!!!

These pictures show Robber for the first time in the snow.
And she really had a good time!
She likes all the sporty things, she is happy as long as you keep her busy.
Robber is always the first who gets bored after a long, long Summer!

By the time it is March 2001 Robber is still running in the team and she is doing great! We call her "Bikkel Bob" (though Bob) as she is so strong and learning the ropes to young Sterre.