9th January 2014
Today we attended Boston Championship Show held at East of England Showground at Peterborough. Judge Sue Bird awarded ‘Posa’ 2nd in Puppy, ‘Posa’ decided today was a good day to play in the ring but enjoyed the experience of her day out.
11th January 2014
Today, back to Boston Championship Show, this time not exhibiting but sitting the Rules and Regulations Seminar and Exam under UK Kennel Club Accredited Trainer Mrs. Christina Chapman. I was very pleased that I passed with 100% pass mark. On returning home, our tri colour bitch Seryphina Stormkissed (Kenya) had started her labour under Mark’s supervision so a long night ahead ensued.
12th January 2014
This morning, after a sleepless night, Kenya delivered 8 puppies, 2 blue Merle Dogs, 2 Blue Merle Bitches, 2 Tri colour dogs and 2 Tri colour Bitches. Unfortunately one of the Blue Merle Dogs when delivered the amniotic fluid was discoloured and the puppy was born gasping, the puppy passed away 48 hours after birth. The remaining 7 puppies are all healthy and thriving. Well done Levi and Kenya. this mating is a repeat of last year’s mating that produced our beautiful Shandlmain Blu Genes, fondly known as Krista, who moved to Sweden to live with Micael Johannson of Seabounds Rough Collies. We hope to see Krista later this year when we visit the World Dog Show in Finland.
19th January 2014
News from Spain where our co-owned Smooth Collie Jack Mack’s Hefin Huw (Tien) has been staying with co-owners Nick and Anne Smith (Tentola) for the past year. Tien won Best of Breed on both the Saturday and Sunday which now makes her Portugese Junior Champion and Porto Winner 2014. Tien was also shortlisted in the Group final 6 which is excellent for a bitch that is only 16 months old. The title of Portugese Junior Champion joins Tien’s other titles of Gibraltar Junior Champion and Spanish Junior Champion. Tien has one last showing weekend to attend at Granada on the weekend of 15th/16th February 2014, after this, Tien will be coming home to live permanently in the UK here at Shandlmain and we, along with Nick and Anne, will campaign her in the UK.
Today we discovered that our lovely homebred blue merle bitch Shandlmain Pesquero Blue (Freyde) has come in to season so decisions now have to be made as to whether we mate Freyde on this, her 3rd season.