Joanna - A Red and White Parti Color American Cocker Spaniel

Joanna joined our family in May of 2003. She's a red & white parti-color Cocker. She came to us from LaWanda Miskovsky of Wannie's Cockers in Flagstaff, Arizona... the same breeder that our chocolate girl, Reese, came from. Joanna is one of those totally people-oriented Cockers. She wants to be right there with you at all times. While some Cockers want nothing more than to play ball or to go for walks... Joanna is more interested in sitting at your feet, or better yet, right on your lap.

We owe a big "thank you" to our friend, Jacqui Christy of Hi Acre Cockers in San Diego county, for introducing us to Joanna's breeder in 2003 when we were looking for a new female puppy. Jacqui told us about the new puppy she was getting from Arizona, and she suggested we contact the breeder to see about other pups that might be available in the litter.

Joanna turned two years old in early 2005, and passed her hip exam a month or two later. She has a "good" rating by the Orthopedic Foundation For Animals. We have also had her examined by a Veterinary Ophthalmologist to see if she has any hereditary eye conditions. (We do eye and hip exams on all of our dogs before breeding, to reduce the chances of passing along defects to future generations.) The Ophthalmologist gave her a clean bill of health... so we bred Joanna with a beautiful chocolate & white stud dog in the Spring of 2006 and Joanna delivered her fist litter of puppies in July of that year. It was a great litter! We were so pleased with Joanna's puppies that we waited a year and then bred her again... but this time to a different male... our boy, Dodger. Once again, four pups! That seems to be the magic number for Joanna. A little further down the page you'll see pictures of her pups from both litters.

Mrs. Zim and I spent hours trying to come up with a good name for Joanna when she first joined our family, and we finally agreed on the name Joanna after I mentioned the 80's pop song of the same name by "Kool and the Gang". The lyrics to the song go something to the effect of "Joanna, I love you. You're the one... the one for me!"

Joanna's registered name just kind of rolls right off the tongue... it's Wannie's Joanna Roseannadanna. Wannie, of course, refers to the kennel name of her breeder in Arizona. And if you're old enough to remember the original cast of Saturday Night Live, you probably remember Roseanne Roseannadanna... the character played by the late Gilda Radner.

Trivia fact: Joanna's registered name was SUPPOSED to be Wannie's Joanna Roseannadanna... but the AKC made a typographical error on it when they entered it in their system and lopped the final letter off. So, Joanna's registered name is actually Wannie's Joanna Roseannadann.

Joanna's father is a champion show dog with a long line of champions behind him. His registered name is Champion Savoy's Dugley Do-Right, and his call name is Paisley.

As you can see from the picture on the right, Joanna doesn't really look like her dad. He's a tri color Cocker. The funny thing is that Joanna doesn't look like her mother either! Joanna's mother is a chocolate & white parti.

Because Joanna is a red & white with a black & white father and a chocolate & white mother... she carries the genes for black, red, and chocolate. That's somewhat unusual, and it makes Joanna the only one of our dogs capable of creating puppies in all three of the major parti colors: black & white, chocolate & white, and red & white.

Click here to see lots of pictures of Joanna's puppies. Click here to see their pedigree.

Joanna Picture Gallery

Joanna at five months old
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One more picture I think you'll find interesting...

Champion Glenmurray's Declaration -- "Teddy"
Owner: Lois Wilson, Glennmurray Cockers -- Ontario, California

Lois wrote to tell me that she enjoyed my perspective of the big national specialty Cocker show in Riverside in July. (See the photos I took there, and read my comments here.) I wrote back to tell her how delighted I was to hear from her, since she is the breeder of Joanna's grandfather, Champion Glenmurray's Declaration. I asked her for an update on him, and she sent me this picture of him in his prime. By the way, the woman in the photo is Julie Virosteck, who has gone on to become one of the Directors of the American Spaniel Club.

Unfortunately, Lois informed me that Teddy had to be put to sleep a few years ago. He was 12 years old. It was very sad news, indeed. But a little bit of the ol' boy lives on right here in our house, and he sure did pass along some great genes.

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Meet Joanna Our very friendly red & white girl

Joanna Picture Gallery

Meet Joanna
Our very friendly red & white girl