I have fielded about 20 enquiries for Annie, the most delightful of the extraordinarily talented three witches out of Gail. Annie is special among the witches: she has joy and love of life to match her talent. She has it all.

Annie will be leaving soon to Nicholas, in Massachusetts: a polymath, AI researcher and entrepreneur who has a passion for working dogs and sheep. Nicholas is astonishingly plugged into dogs. While with me he made keen and incisive observations about the dogs here that I had never noticed and confirmed much of what I believe to be true of working dogs. His trenchant insights and synthesized thinking were an unexpected bonus to his visit.

I hold my pups long to begin with, 16 weeks or more, to see who they are, and after that for the right person / place …even if that takes (many) months. In the best cases, a pup tells me when it is right. That is just what happened with Annie and Nicholas. Gifted young Annie said to the those present and to the universe, ‘this is the one‘.