Zuni

This post is about our German Shepherd dog, Zuni. She is our second German Shepherd dog (GSD) to be a part of our family. Our first, named Cory, lived to be 14 years old before we had to send her over the Rainbow Bridge, due to her suffering from Hip Dysplasia and old age. It devastated us and we vowed to not have anymore dogs.....until one day 10 years later, when Ranchman John felt the pull to stop as he drove by someone selling dogs from the back of their truck, in Albuquerque......one week before Christmas.

Zuni came to us a wormy, sickly, pudgy, cute 8 week old puppy, and we fell in love.
She is now 11 months old. Hard to believe she's been with us almost a year. She's been a real handful, just like puppies usually are, but she's also been fun, silly and very sweet. We named our girl after one of New Mexico's 19 Native American Pueblos.
Zuni Pueblo, NM is the largest of the nineteen New Mexican Pueblos, with more than 700square miles and a population of over 10,000, located in the northwestern part of New Mexico. Zuni Pueblo is considered the most traditional of all the New Mexico Pueblos, with a unique language, culture, and history that resulted in part from their geographic isolation.

The ancient homelands of the Zunis are along the middle reaches of the Zuni River where their cultural ancestors lived for centuries. Near the settlements and villages left by the ancient people, the Zuni Indians built compact villages of multi-storied houses. These were the towns seen by Coronado and his men and, whom called them the "Seven Cities" in the land of Cibola. The mythical Seven Cities of Cibola (Spanish word for "buffalo") lured Coronado to the southwest in 1540 in a treasure quest.
The Zuni people express their lasting cultural traditions through their art: in painting, pottery, jewelry, and fetish carving.
A German Shepherd fetish necklace would be so special, don't you think?