The name for Storybook Farm originated when we lived in Alabama thirteen years ago. We had been fond of children's books by Ashley Wolff, a talented artist and writer. An Australian Shepherd puppy joined our family, and we needed a name for him. We were teachers, storytellers, and lovers of books. We didn't own a farm, at the time, but the one we imagined and hoped to own would be like the one depicted in Come With Me, the story of Pumpkin, a Border Collie puppy about to go home with her new family. That was 1995, and we named our dog Fax "Storybook Farm's Faxed Magic" in honor of the farm we hoped we'd own some day. In 2004, we bought just such a farm near Ashland, Oregon, and we look forward to moving there when our teaching years are done.

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Fax got us started in the world of training and competing in dog events, and he was our first gifted therapy dog. He was an amazing puppy raiser and socializer and was kind and fair with any dog or person he met. He was patient as I learned obedience and agility for the first time and made lots of mistakes. He loved to train for peanut butter sandwich crusts. (September 12, 1995 to March 22, 2008)

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Blitz was a once in a lifetime therapy dog, able to reach severely withdrawn patients and read all kinds of hospital situations. He paid attention to who was in a room, who left, who came late, who needed attention and who was aching. He was an exuberant, reckless, flamboyant agility dog, capable of occasional brilliance and lightning fast runs but more frequently decimating entire courses, shattering tire jumps, and sending bars flying in six directions. He lived to find lost lacrosse balls on our school campus, recovering an average of 1200 between January and June each year in the grass, mud, orchards and hedges and bereft when the season ended and summer began. When he was grumpy with the May litter of puppies, we knew he was not well, and he died of hemangiosarcoma just before turning nine.We will miss him for years to come, and 2008 was a difficult year in dogs. (October 11, 1999 to October 5, 2008)