Tammera's There But Fortune.....
"Jessie"
Am.Ch. Seacliff's Special Effects x Tammera's Sable Magic
Jessie came to me at four years of age, bred to Ch. Bach Razor's Edge and ready to take over our lives here at Marpointe. From the beginning, Jessie personified the sweet disposition I was looking for in a bitch. Jessie is now 13 years young and I planned this page as a tribute to her and her lovely contribution to my bloodlines as well as the memorable years I have had with her.
Jessie has always been our good will ambassador here at Marpointe. She always runs to greet visitors, both young and old, but especially the children. She absolutely loves children and has always been gentle with the young ones. Children who are fearful of dogs in the beginning, come to relax in her presence and before too long they are interacting without fear. Jessie has been so long-suffering with my grandchildren from the word go...especially my granddaughter, Kaitlyn, who has inherited her grandmother's love of dogs and shows it by her constant hugging and kissing of Jessie. Jessie enjoys it all with the same sweet expression on her face.
Jessie loves food as do all shelties...but with her it is with the adventure of a connoisseur, nothing is taboo with Jessie. Fruit and vegetables of any kind are consumed with equal relish and of course, we could set our clocks with Jessie's inner knowledge that it is meal time! She will get up to stare intently at our faces until we have to acknowledge her with the question, "Is it supper time?" to which she will dance with exuberance until it is set before her.
Jessie was never shown here in Canada, but what her bloodlines have given us in terms of conformation has proven itself time and again. Scroll below to see what Jessie's gift to us has been.
As mentioned before, Jessie came to us
bred to Ch. Bach Razor's Edge. From that breeding came "Mercy" -
Marpointe's Mercedes,
pt'd - 
who caught
the heart of a good friend, Beverley Guthrie, of Sunnygate Shelties when Mercy
was just a youngster. Beverley took her home on a co-ownership and when
the time was right, Mercy was bred to "Luke" - Ch. Marpointe's Cool Hand Luke.
The first breeding to Luke produced "Penny" -
Ch. Sunnygate Skookum
O'Marpointe - 
who came to live with us here at Marpointe as our pick puppy back from that
breeding. Penny went on a co-ownership with Joanne Howe of Conspirito
Shelties. We bred her to three times to get
"Noah" - Ch. Marpointe's The
Believer 
,
"Jack" -
Ch. Conspirito Highest Card Deals
and finally
"Duncan" - Marpointe
Highland Blackhawk 
who we will begin to show this spring.
We loved that first breeding of Mercy and Luke so well that we repeated it and that resulted in "Remi" -
Ch. Sunnygate Reminis
O'Marpointe 
who
came to us as second pick of the second litter at which time Beverley and her
mother Barb became the sole owners of Mercy. Remi was bred to "Soul" -
Am.Can.Jpn.Grand Ch. Barkley's SS Pure Soul which resulted in "Merlin" -
Ch. Marpointe's Paparrazi,
ADC,AADC, MADC,SGDC,AGDC
. Remi then
went on to a co-ownership with Judy Tulloch of Coastal View Shelties and was
bred again to Soul which resulted in "Brie" -
BIS Ch. Marpointe's Simply
Delicious 
who
came back to live with us at Marpointe as our pick puppy back from that
co-ownership, after which time Judy became the sole owner of Brie. Judy
has gone on to breed Brie to produce what she calles "The Brat Pack" - three
lovely pups from the same litter that are being seen in the show ring
successfully this spring.
Jessie's daughter Mercy was again bred
to Ch. Marpointe's Manhattan to produce "Rose" -
Ch. Sunnygate The Victoria Rose
What a lovely legacy this one little sable dog has given, first with her daughter Mercy and from there branching out from Mercy's offspring. A legacy that has benefited not only me but three other shelties breeders who have been successful with her progeny, grand-progeny and great-grand-progeny.
