07/19/2024
Just an update to my friends and all the wonderful owners and lovers of my leonbergers (Leos by the Sea) over the past 30 years. And a wonderful voyage it has been. This is the last year of breeding for us. I adore the leonbergers, you all know that. But Bryan and I are 73 now (although, annoyingly, everyone keeps saying how much younger he looks!!!) and I just had the right total knee, he had it last year. So time to change and adjust. THese dogs are just too big for me now. The gentlest of creatures , who just cant be close enough to people. But try manuevering around six of them with a total knee replacement!!!.
I have 2 girls left who are breedable. THese are the best of my lines, the absolute best. Best looking, longest lived, best temperaments. One has been bred and will deliver today by c section . That is Layla, daughter of 9 and a half year old healthy Goldfish, Best of Opposite S*x at Westminster. And bred to frozen semen of Grand Champion Leos by the Sea Rooster, tragically died early due to a stomach flip. But the best and the biggest leo I ever bred. OUt of bloodlines that dont exist anymore.
We still have Fiona and she will be bred in the fall/winter.
But there is also another opportunity.
Well before the Leonberger Club of America was founded, and prior to the leonberger even admitted to the AKC, Canada was the center to go to breed or european imports. The first 10 years of my leo breedings were canadian, and some great dogs, mostly centered in Quebec. This is where Lucie Perron, of Corleone Leos, started our friendship. Lucie, much younger than me, but is also adjusting her life to other things so while still searching europe for the best leonberger lines, she is also cutting back on breeding. For that reason, and because of the unique bloodlines coming down, Lucie is bringing me 7 or8 leo pups in a couple of weeks. These will be available only at this time. Canadian registered, easily registed with AKC. Father is a Grand Champion, mother is the sister of the number one bitch in all of europe. Gorgeous. Lucie herself is recovering from surgery, doing very well. But abdominal surgery, so anyone who knows leos can imagine trying to pick up huge 8 week old leo pups. You cant.
I hope all these leos, this year, go to homes I know. As always, the best homes win. But this is a special year.
You know I usually dont share private matters. I truly dont. But the recent assassinaton attempt here oddly has a lot to do with the way I feel. I had the right total knee surgery on tuesday it was great and I was home and doing well. Then 2 days later, I was back in the hospital in kidney failure and morphine toxicity and out of my mind, very, very close to death. So lucky to be alive. I guess I had morphine toxicity when the kidneys stopped excreting. No symptoms ahead, shock to me and the docs. But in that hospital, starting to come out of the delusions, the assassination attempto was on the tvs in patients rooms on the news. Not a good idea, but there it is. And as I started to recover, I realized I too had been given a second chance. MY family and friends have been wonderful and I am going, and quickly , be one hundred percent. But I am just so grateful.
Thank you to everyone single one of you who have cherished my dogs and made my life better over the years, every single one.
God bless.
Oh, yes, andbefore I get too sentimental here, dont forget, last chance to get a Leos by the Sea leo!!!!! Just ask anyone who has had one and they will tell you that I stood by them always one hundred percent, all their lives, every single one.
Mary Leos by the Sea Cape Cod 774 207 7992
Mary Leos by the Sea Cape Cod
