When Chuck and I first tried to mate my Schnauzer Frau,we chose to go to Renee and Joe, a lovely elderly couple in our neighborhood , the owners of the delightful Fritz, a male Schnauzer.
It did not work out and thinking that Frau might be too young, we decided to wait a while for the next try.
So when we showed up some years later,we had the the exquisitely bad timing of choosing the anniversary of the death of Joe.
So that did not work out either. In the end Frau never had a litter.
All that happened so many years ago, and I have not thought of Renee for as long, till last night when she suddenly appeared in my dream.
And with exquisite timing, on Chuck's birthday.