#breeder family

[m-blackwell-and-associates]

Following Up pt 2

Nicky’s people had cleaned the grave well enough, now that the original mission, both true and false, was over.  Nicky had the manners to police his own.  Now it was left to her to gather what dust had fallen out of her cousin’s reach and how she could make it pay.  It would be more satisfying to have someone else pay the costs now resting in her ledger.  

“Any reason you chose…”  Angelina turned back a page to see the list of operatives that Nicky had sent. “Diana Rosselini, alias Anna Betancourt?”  

“I felt she was the best of the four.”

“What made her stand out?”  At first glance, all four seemed to be of similar quality.  Military training of one flavor or another.  Specific skills earned in vague unnamed places.  Confirmed kill lists.  All from distant branches of breeder families, probably only accidentally aware of the family business, if aware of it at all.  No one with any strong ties to any Kindred family that she could recall at this moment.  Perfect operatives for those hopefuls with nothing left to lose and willing to work for a family pariah.

Family pariahs.  

Angelina frowned slightly, perturbed at the unnecessary self-reminder, tucking that thought away for later contemplation.  Now was not the time for meditating on old injustices. 

“I feel that a Rosselini was more suitable,” Pietro gave an easy shrug, as if such an important choice was merely an afterthought.  Normally a temperate guide, she found his lack of care or worry to be irritating this evening. 

“More suitable than what, Pietro?  Do not dissemble.”

He capitulated immediately.  “The Rosselini was the only choice, donna.  I wouldn’t dare Proxy Jara without approval of the Pisnob.  I didn’t feel that you’d want the della Passaglia here, all things considered, so Durant was also not an option.”

“Your consideration of my feelings is commendable, but if he was the better candidate, I would have accepted him.  Chances are he wasn’t involved with the…current politics.”  Angelina clicked her teeth shut on the words, biting them where she couldn’t bite those that had risen against her.

Again that nonchalant shrug and easy grin, tacitly ignoring the tempest she held under thin glass  “I would not risk it and besides, the Rosselini was equally qualified and the fourth did not survive the mission.”

“Karl Koeing, alias of Gerhart Auer,” Angelina mused, putting the papers back in order and finding the small work of neatness to be soothing.  There would be very little this evening that would be considered soothing.  “Nicky removed him from the operation himself?”

“Compromised,” Pietro agreed.  “At least that was what my Rosselini has told me, though I find it all a little extreme.  The Butcher didn’t like the fact he was passing information.  I understand his reasoning, but it wasn’t as if the Koeing was speaking out of house.”

A flash of annoyance cut through her precarious calm, jaw tightening against what she wished to say.  Vincenzo. They had been contemporaries once, equal in status as one of the North American padroni.  Their cousin’s unexpected murder had given him the job and she found the timing of it suspect, as well as Vincenzo’s lack of proper familial mourning.   “And Ms. Rosselini was the one that made sure the grave was clean?”

[darkwood-sleddog]

My breeder has been doing “couples photo shoots” with her various pairings over the years and posted this (and others) coincidentally on the Slashiversary.

Slash’s dad, Nordiclight’s Syd the Warrior WTD WTDA, on the left and Slash’s mom, Nordiclight’s Salem WTD WTDA, on the right.

[iviin-855]

Au where everything is the same except Eliot Spencer was one of the fighting cooks of the baratie

[oraclecollie]

hi dogblr!! i’m looking for some border collie breeder recommendations, ideally in the pnw or in arizona. i’m mostly interested in show lines. looking for a beginner sports prospect (disc, dock diving, and rally are the three i’m most interested in but i’m down to try anything) and an all around solid hiking/adventure companion, so i don’t need insane drive or anything. if u have any recs or leads on breeders who may produce dogs fitting somewhere in there can u perhaps toss them my way 👀

[tillman]

I hate when breeder bait works and is actually awesome as fuck.

[shiny-miltank]

man what a weekend. I went into lunch with my pizza launchable and came out twenty minutes later with things once again on fire political wise lmao.

and my lads, if you go into a cat rescue listing off extreme specifics, practically shopping for a kitten with certain color aesthetics, and not even taking the time being borderline hostile for me to politely explain the odds and ends of what a shelter is trying to do while showing you very friendly and cute other cats, and maybe a kitten isnt a good fit for your older, modest cat --

then please step on a sharp corner lego piece on the way out.

[doginprogress]

Spork made a new friend in puppy Hela

[threnodians]

Y’ALL I GOT THE JOB 🥲

[whippetcrimes]

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[bambambambino]

One thing that really pushes me away from certain breeds is that their communities can be so diehard "If you don't do sports with your dog then you're wasting your dogs potential and abusing them", and I just don't vibe with that. I love dog sports and watching dogs have fun and do what they're bred to do, but I also understand that you don't have to do sports to fulfill your dogs needs for stimulation and fun. Living a lowkey life isn't abuse.

But I also don't give a shit regardless, because its my dog and ill do sports if I want to, not because I feel pressured.

[darkwood-sleddog]

“Ethical breeders have too many expectations placed on them for anybody to want to do it.” *proceeds to explain how expectations should be lowered.

How about no.

[my-gf-is-kazuichi-soda]

I never finished this comic, but Ultimate Programmer Kazuichi hugging a Blahaj

Pridebert designed her

[fjordfolk]

Hi, I'm a relatively new follower so apologies if you've talked about this before, but what goals do you have with the breeding of Troja? Why would she wash out?

no point in breeding her because she's fifty moths under a sheepskin rug, but it would be interesting to see what came out if we lifted a corner yea?

[firelightfoxes]

ppl who make it their entire personality to hate on doodles are so exhausting

[girleboy]

why are puppies well over £1000......

[beansnpeets]

I joined some breeder opinion groups on FB hoping they would have info on pomsky breeders since they appeared to be okay with mixes in the rules and descriptions, but upon actually searching the groups people are really really really mean about mixes anyway. The dog world is just so unaccepting of doodles and pomskies and other mixes. They seem to forget how new breeds have been made in the past. Like, "No more new breeds! We have enough! Nobody else is allowed to make new ones anymore!" I just really want a pomski :(