I had to complete my colors last year - even with the threat of divorce hanging over my head! LOL!!! We started out with a german shepherd rescue that we got at 4 months of age. She was the most amazing dog - but really and truly my husband's dog. As she aged, my daughter wanted a lap dog, so enter cavalier # 1 - Oliver, our blenheim. The shepherd died and Oliver seemed lonely and needed a companion, so along came Riley, our black and tan girl who we got at 11 months old (she is truly my heart dog). Well, Riley's breeder said she liked to see her dogs when they were a little over one year old, to make sure they could run, jump, etc and that their teeth were fine, etc. But since she had a littler of rubies that were 9 weeks old at the time, how could I resist? So Madison came home with us. She is Riley's half-sister by the way. Several years passed when the breeder e-mailed me a picture of two tri-colors she had just had. Of course my daughter and I fell in love again. Number 4 took some tricky convincing. Since our shepherd was a big dog, and my husband prefers big dogs, he always referred (very lovingly) to our cavaliers as weiner dogs. So, he consented to a 4th dog if we gave him a special name. So, dog #4 is "Oz, the great and powerful weiner dog"!!! Hubbies are such softies! But I think I'll stop there. Even when people on this forum talk about getting a puppy, I know I'm done. I have all four colors and I love them all.