Week 47 - Quella due for x-rays

I recently received a phone call from my supervisor, to tell me that Quella has been booked in for her hip x-rays, to check for any signs of hip dysplasia. She is going next week. These x-rays are to see if she will be suitable for breeding. I will take her to Atherton Training Centre on Monday afternoon, from where she will be taken for her x-rays under anaesthetic on Tuesday, and then I will collect her on Wednesday morning. I am going to miss her whilst she is away, it will be so strange not having a dog here. I may get the results by the end of the week, or the following week. If the x-rays are satisfactory, she will then move to the National Breeding Centre in Warwickshire. Usually they move pretty soon after the results come through, but I doubt if they would take Quella now before Christmas, at least that is what I am hoping, it would most likely be the first week in January. When they go to the breeding centre, they undergo a character assessment test, if they pass that test, they will then be accepted onto the breeding programme, then they will move to live with a family in their home, and that is where the brood bitch will have her puppies, they are called Brood Bitch Holders. They are also 'matched' to a family, for example if a dog is inclined to show too much interest in cats, she would not be placed with a family that has a cat. If a defect shows up with one of a bitches littermates, then that bitch would not be used for breeding, none of the bitches from that litter would be accepted onto the breeding programme.
If Quella does not pass the x-rays, she will then be spayed in January, and go for training in February or March. If that does happen, I am going to have to do some work with her during the winter months, as the little mynx will not walk through a puddle on the pavement, even if I coax her with a treat, she will jump across the puddle before she will walk through it, and yet if we go near a river, I cannot keep her out of it, she plunges in up to her neck. She must be taught to walk through puddles, otherwise, if she does go on to be a Guide Dog, then she would be walking around the puddle and take the Guide Dog Owner straight through it. So puddle lessons it must be for her.