3rd August 2014 We have been busy raising Freyde’s wonderful litter of puppies so have had our hands full for a while. Today though we took time out to show our homebred Shandlmain Cloudshill (Lawrence) under John Blake at EACA Championship Show. Lawrence was handled by Anne Smith for us today, Tien should have been shown at EACA but came into season last week and as Anne and Nick had come over from Spain to show her, we offered Lawrence to show instead. This is Lawrence’s first Championship Show and he qualified for Crufts 2015.
6th August 2014 saw us flying out to Finland for the World Dog Show 2014 held in Helsinki. We were kindly invited by our dear friend Marj-Riitta La Maut who has Voodoo’s younger full brother in Finland. It was a wonderful few days in Finland, we were pleased to see Timi (Shandlmain Soul Strider) be awarded Excellent and Best Dog 4 in Show at the Collie Speciality Show and then for Timi to also be awarded excellent at the World Dog Show in a very strong Open Dog class. It was also wonderful to see good friends over our long weekend, including Micael and Fredrik who own Krista (Shandlmain Blu Genes) although Krista was not at the World Dog Show, preferring to drop her coat for the summer. How wonderful though that Micael and Fredrik’s wonderful Skipper won Reserve Best Dog Rough Collie at the World Dog Show and their beautiful bitch Sissel won Best Bitch and Best of Breed. Many congratulations to Micael and Fredrik.
29th August 2014 Our wonderful bitch Freyde (Shandlmain Pesquero Blue) decided that she wanted more puppies! Unfortunately here at Shandlmain you always have to be one step ahead of these intelligent dogs, and if you are not they win over every time! I had not locked our back door after letting Freyde out for exercise so Freyde decided it would be a ‘hoot’ to let Voodoo out with her. Low and behold, by the time I saw Voodoo out with Freyde, it was too late and they were tied! We will wait and see what happens as we do not agree with the injection given to bitches in season that have had an accidental mating as it can make the bitch sterile.