Kathleen wrote:

Dear Sis is an RN who owns a rather excellent microscope for on-the-spot
specimen evaluation and has access to state-of-the art collection and
storage facilities. She has gained respect as a local terrier fertility
expert and in her opinion, Scotties warrant OT rates (carpal tunnel
being an obvious hazard).

LOL :-).

Speaking of semen evaluations (yeah, now I'm going to brag a bit) - before
Utah was used the second time, the breeder wanted a semen evaluation done
on him (not an unreasonable request). The poor tech that had to do it!
She had one of those little clicky-counter things and I could hear her go
click-click-click-click in the next room for probably 20 minutes. Then
she did her calculations and came out and conferred sotto voce with the
vet that had done the collection. Then he turned around and called the
vet who owned the practice, who was out of town at the time.

Of course I was curious as to what was up. They were both kind of
embarrassed when they came to give me the results: turned out that the
reason it had taken so long is that they thought they'd screwed up the
calculations. But they'd actually been right the first time; they just
hadn't trusted the results because they were so good. I forget the exact
numbers but his sperm count was SO high that if they'd've been freezing
it for storage there would've been enough for *17* inseminations
(generally speaking, getting enough for 4-6 is considered good!!)

Silly of me, but I'm kind of proud of him for that :-).

Dianne