Totally off-topic:
If you mean the dog breed, don’t even start me about doggie stories…I am having one unfold this very minute, and it is breaking my heart.
Hey! you must be psychic or somethin’…scary!!!
I also guess prices at the dollar store with uncanny accuracy 
I hope whatever it is turns out okay. I lost my baby last January. She was a 16 yr. old Border Collie/Sheltie mix. She was my shadow in the garden. She’d rather lay in the shade and watch me work than go for a walk. She was adorable, lol. My sister got her as a rescue pup for Christmas for me. The pups were abaonded at 2 weeks old. I carried her in my coat in the garden, LOL! She didnt mind
I am sooooo sorry to hear about your baby 
We have a 14 yo sweet-as-pie Rottweiler who I regard to be my best friend in life (too bad ur not in my neighbourhood, for a pooch chat, over a cuppa coffee!!).
Thank you sooo much for your doggie support, plant and animal folk are the coolest typs of humans IMO!!!
'nuf said…now, back to the WEC issues I must deal with… LOL!!!
Hi…just a little WEC story to kill time and share experiences at the same time!
Recently I noted that a whole lot of very dried achenes I did EE + WEC on, (all different types of parenatge) yielded embryos that did not tolerate water soaking beyond 48-72 hours very well at all, compared to totally opposite observations I had previously noted on freshly collected achenes/embryos undergoing EE + WEC
Last week I was lucky enough to spot one tiny hip on a rose I suspect to be ‘Flower Carpet Red’, or very similar (it was about the size of multiflora hip).
One of these hips contained an achene that yieded a pearly white embryo. I left this embryo in a cup of tap water last week, and yesterday (over 1 week left soaking in a cupboard), it had thickened up all its parts and extended a small thickish radicle, and looked like it was happy to stay in the water for more days…no molding/drowning here!!!
Yesterday, I planted it in some dirt, in my mom’s garden, only beacause I was in a real hurry, and had no proper set up there to put it into heat-treated seed raising mix…I might go back and do that today…it might turn out to be a good seedling, who knows?!
My main point here is that this again re-confirms for me my previous observations on how well a lot of embryos derived from fresh hips, and submitted to immediate EE + WEC seemingly thrive in water soakings of one week duration, or even longer.
But because of what the dry seed experience has taught me, I still think soaking in tap water for 48-72 hours is probably safest practice (or even lesser times for the whole lot in the cup of water if one or two in that cup decide its time to mold/drown…eg. at 24-48hrs).
These times are of course at best an “average best guestimate”.