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GRACIE
Registered Name: Wind River McCaw’s Grace
Kennel Name: “Gracie”
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: January 31, 2004
Place of Birth: Heber City, Utah
Weight: 50lbs.
Lineage: Daughter of Eilu and Blaze
Special Skills: Grace is our up-and-coming Matriarch with the fearless nature of a rock-solid bear dog. She showed her tenacious nature during the summer of 2005 working her first contract right behind our top dogs. Gracie helped us to keep a female grizzly and her yearling cubs wild and free in the Glacier National Park backcountry. She also patrolled at a large grainspill on the edge of Glacier National Park, helping us meet our “No Dead Bears” goal! Gracie has an amazing tracking ability and will catch a scent from far off and loves to take you tracking through the brush, up and over logs, around corners and digging through heavy cover to her treasure. Gracie is also one of our best presentation and outreach dogs. She loves to be the center of attention and handles crowded auditoriums, theatres and parks with ease and confidence.
Education level: Grace will achieve her Canine Good Citizen and Basic Obedience certification during the winter of 2006.
Personality: Gracie is a true beauty with a ‘tomboy’ personality. She can be a very serious girl, however, she likes to play ruff and tumble with the ‘big boys’ and will stand up to anything that comes her way. Grace is wise beyond her years. She loves to look deep, long and lovingly into your eyes. You can almost feel her mind working on her next achievement or adventure. She has a fearless nature; however, she can melt you with her gentleness.
Special Note: Grace is the first granddaughter to Wind River’s founding Karelians, Cassie and Rio. Grace was our ‘new mom’ and gave birth to a litter of six Wind River Karelian Bear Dogs on Feb. 9, 2006. She was bred to Yoki (Erauspojan Kuujoki), our male from Finland. This litter combines our four lines of world renowned Karelian Bear Dogs. Grace is the daughter of Eilu, born in Finland, and Blaze, son of Cassie (Finland) and Rio (Russia), founding female and male of our Wind River Karelian Bear Dogs.

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