Calypso Lady In Red
'Lady'

AKC#: HM 55648201 OFA: BJ-528F25F CERF: ppm born Jan 19,1995 died Dec. 8, 2004 owners: Joni & Mike Compton and The Boys on Lake Norman, NC 'Lady' is one of our Rhett (Ch Calypso American Gigolo) daughters who carried his deep color and mascara gene. She is dominant for passing it on. The picture chosen for her illustrates this in her look-alike son, Calypso Carolina Cooler (sire: Ch Calypso Kilimanjaro). Lady's physique was very much more like her mother, Ch Calypso Bossanova - very slight of build, and not enough rear angulation for competitive showing. However, her genetics alone were reason enough for me to keep her for our breeding pool. It has just been a matter of finding the stud with whom this genetic material nicked - we found him in our 'Aatu' son, CALYPSO B'AATU BIG SIR. We liked the first litter enough that we are repeating it spring 2003, and then Lady retired to her retirement home in central North Carolina. She deserves all the love and attention and spoiling with which she will be showered. Lady's temperament is above reproach. She is submissive, happy, loving and doting. She is the epitome of the word SWEET. Her pups are just like her. True to her place in the world as a BASENJI bitch, she can be vindictive when she is not getting the attention she thinks she deserves, so she bears watching when it seems as if SHE might think she is being slighted! What we've gotten from Rhett and down through this daughter has been the masking gene which produces the rich red color and very generous mascara marking around the eyes. The 'egyptian' exotic look comes easily to Lady's progeny, and we hope that her son, 'Kulta' whom we kept from 2001's litter sired by B'Aatu will continue to pass this trait along. He and his sister, Fizz, also inherited their mothers non pareil temperament for which we are eternally grateful. This duo is filled with joy, and love and life, and whenever we are around them, laughter is the 'letter' of the day!  Now that Lady is retired from being a Calypso "mom", she has gone to some dear friends of ours over on North Carolina's beautiful Lake Norman for her 'golden years'. Joni and Mike Compton and their two sons already have another Calypso basenji, tri-colored "Fudge" (Calypso Jamocha Fudge). Fudge is a full brother to Lady, just from the previous breeding of parents Rhett & Bossanova.  We are thrilled for Lady to have been welcomed into such a wonderful basenji home where we know the second half of her life is going to be just great!

PEDIGREE:

Am Ch Calypso American Gigolo	Am&Can Ch Tri-Tan's Uzuri Supow Lihu	Am Ch Flower Power of Woz	Am Ch The Eclipser of Woz
			Am Ch Black-Eyed Susan of Woz, CD
		Lihu's Susu Yumdrum	Khajah's Different Drummer
			Am Ch Lihu's Yumba of Wilbarrie
	Am Ch Calypso Flair of Papalote	Am Ch Shadowbye's Mitty	Am Ch Reveille Re-Up
			Am Ch Lihu's Si-Kitu of Flambeau
		Am Ch Fancy Fandango of Papalote	Am Ch Shadowbye's General Business
			Am Ch Happy Pagan
Am Ch Calypso Bossanova	Am Ch Djakomba's Spotlight	Am Ch Sirius Half-Back	Am Ch Reveille Re-Up
			Am Ch Makila Motane Moke
		Am Ch Caucasian Ruffles	Am Ch Reveille Re-Up
			Am Ch Russell's Mkewe Mfalme
	Am Ch Calypso American Express	Am&Can Ch Tri-Tan's Uzuri Supow Lihu	Am Ch Flower Power of Woz
			Lihu's Susu Yumdrum
		Am Ch Calypso Flair of Papalote	Am Ch Shadowbye's Mitty
			Am Ch Fancy Fandango of Papalote