Cheryl and Mark, Thanks for all your quality care and effort – it really makes a person purchasing a dog feel good to know you and your husband are fine enthusiastic breeders. Hope you enjoyed our Christmas photo of Angus at 7 months old. He’s really beautiful. He’s extremely intelligent and is a joy every day and loved like crazy by my husband and I and our three boys. He gets his leash from the kitchen counter where we keep it and brings it to us and sits down and if we don’t get the message, he goes to the door with it.I tell him calmly, “no bark…quiet” and that if he continues to bark he will go in his crate. With that, he makes a little grumbling noise and stops barking. He picked out and carried away each of his five Christmas presents from everyone else presents under the tree. He spends quality quiet time on the couch every night with my husband and I for an hour or so before going to bed. When he’s ready for bed, he quietly gets up and leaves for his crate. He goes outside in our backyard and stands at the fence and barks every day to call his old yellow lab friend to come outside. The lab comes out and I guess Angus doesn’t understand why his friend just stands there quietly and doesn’t share his enthusiasm. If we don’t come right away to let Angus back inside from the backyard, a few minutes later we routinely hear the back doorbell ring. The boys always say, who’s at the door, then end up asking, “oh…it’s just Angus” Angus goes for many rides in the car and sits patiently and waits for us while we go in a store for a minute. You both have socialized the puppies so well that every time someone goes by the car, Angus wags his tail like he’s found his lost pal. I recently read, by the way, that it’s crucial at an early puppy age to have as much human bonding and closeness as possible in order to develop a happy adult dog that has had good early human trust and love experiences. Angus is so affectionate and happy all the time. Never has he shown any anger or aggression. When I go occasionally to get the boys at the High School, one of my sons will ask to take Angus on his leash to show him off. My son says everyone loves our pointer, especially the girls. Then, four or five boys pack into our car, with Angus ending up on their laps spread out. He’s been pointing since the first day we got him home from his plane ride. We’ve started taking him to some large open fields soon, and we’ve been reading books on hunting training. He has an exuberance and excitement in the field that we don’t see in him anywhere else. We’re very sure its from his fine hereditary hunting lines from both his mother and father’s side. We’ll be sure in the future to take some hunting pictures and send them on to you. On lead, he heels by my side like a prince, with paws kicking as he prances like a show dog making his run. He will go into a long sit-stay position and has the patience of a saint-dog until he gets the come command. Angus has been taught by my youngest son to shake. Whenever he deems it necessary to get something from him, he sits and automatically gives him his paw. He back talks regularly if he doesn’t like something, and has some work to do on that!!I have some pumpkin Halloween pictures to send to you, but that will come later. Hope this gives you an idea of what this puppy’s like. He’s a character to say the least. If we ever get another dog, it will be from you all. Have a great, peaceful holiday.