Praline

Praline is our chocolate, a deep, even brown with the amber eyes that go with it. She is out of Indigo, a black girl of ours who carried chocolate, by a chocolate dog from a show line we had admired for years. She is a clown and a talker. She greets us in the morning with a long groan and a shoe. She took to dock diving the first time she saw it and has her Dock Novice title. Eight puppies in March did not slow her down for long. Praline is chocolate and does not carry yellow. With Tide, who does not carry chocolate, every puppy is black and every puppy carries chocolate. We tell chocolate lovers this early so that nobody waits on a litter that cannot give them the color they want.