Esther, now over 6 years old, is tall and elegant.  Fully mature, she is just over 28½" tall and about 115 lbs. and has gained a royal bearing to match her name.

She is also Essie, the sweet one, a lover always ready for hugs and kisses, a friend even to cats. Her calm but alert and trainable temperament enabled her, with no class experience, to get Canine Good Citizen certification at six months of age.  Essie loves to play but is also a watcher and thinker.  She will learn to do something just by observation. Great tracking lines are in her family. She has an extraordinary nose and can find any hidden toy, underwater, in a tree, anywhere and thinks this game is great fun. She is a wonderful home companion, always there but never in the way.  An alert watch dog, she lets me know with one deep awesome bark if someone she doesn't know is at the door.  Yet she can go with me to the elementary school and sit calmly in a crowd of strange adults and children and wait for her special child [my granddaughter] to appear.  

Regal, teachable, and talented, Ester continues to produce beautiful puppies with fine temperaments well suited to be family companions.