Sprite
GCH Banner Nevertheless She Persisted HA3
Born September 6, 2019
Bred & owned by John and Pam Mandeville
Dog breeders often comment “Be careful what you name a dog. They’ll often live up to…or down to…it” Sooo true!
Sprite is as entertaining a bitch as we’ve had. Really bright, really attentive, really funny and really sweet and 100% sure she is the most important creature in any room she is in. And pretty, too. If she were human, she’d be the most entitled brat imaginable…she is as a dog, too!
As for the persistence…Sprite was scheduled to start her show career as a puppy at the “March Madness Cluster” in March 2020…and we all know what happened next. The pandemic shut down resulted in the shows being cancelled a few days before. It was over a year before she finally got into the ring. Handler Andrew Green took her out for a few shows…some training and experience.
Life intervened and Sprite went on a hiatus. But 2 years after the March Madness Cluster was cancelled, Sprite returned to the ring, winning a 4 point and 5 point major under Terrier specialist judges. Two months later, she did it again, this time outdoors, winning 2 more majors under Terrier specialists. Six shows, 4 majors…Sprite’s persistence paid off!
Sprite completed her GCH in equally compelling fashion, entirely with majors under Terrier specialist judges. She’s retired from the ring and helped raise her little half-brother Wilson. Her own puppies entered the world in February 2024….take a look at them!
