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I do agree with you that it is far easier to remember the champions and the winners when you live in a country that only offers 37/38 CCs a year and you need three of them to be made up. If I lived in the UK I would have little doubt I would be able to remember who won what where and who did...

We do much as you do. We don't show a dog until it is ready to go into the ring which more often than not is long after it is out of the puppy classes and then we show it when we are confident it is mentally and physically ready to be shown. We are delighted as the dog picks up the points...

I think I would find some charity in my heart -- and not the cold disgust and contempt that I have right now -- had this woman actually demonstrated that she cared for the dogs above all else. But she did not. Her selfish objectives did not include these two dogs whom she abandoned with...

Hi Karen Lee, I am afraid I have to agree with you. She has no spouse, no family (she was adopted as an infant by two individuals who were single children themselves), and no one attached to her except the daughter she put up for adoption 40 years ago and never wished to hear from (till she...

I have been reading the queries of newcomers to showing and thinking there are some very practical pieces of advice every new exhibitor should be given. First and foremost in my book is an encouragement to enjoy showing, but in doing so to put what it is all about in perspective. Put your...

Somewhere I have Pauline's email address from previous contacts, but I cannot seem to find it now that I want it. Can you please put me in touch with Pauline by pm if necessary. My son is a very talented colour pencil artist and when he saw the horses and the closeup photo of one of the blue...

[Yeah! - but I don't really know how/why when it's about a hobo, (Matilda is his swag) who steals the sheep from the property owner and then jumps into the billabong and drowns himself rather than be caught (w00t) :oops: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> True enough Lana, and I knew all that because I...

She is Matty. She hasn't opened her ears (or eyes) yet, but the moment she can hear, the moment she can see she will know she is Matty because that is what we are already calling her. Great name for a dog. Absolutely great song... can anyone who has ever heard it not associate it with...

Hi Maia, the pups look just great! Those ones you are calling fawns are coloured dark enough that I think you may end up with sables, which is a fabulous coat colour -- black tipped red fawn. The pups look strong and healthy and I am SO happy you got what you were looking for! Lanny

Here are the Ceely pups, including the girl who is likely to be called Avalonia Waltzing Matilda. Many years ago now I got persuaded to take over a bar piano when the guy who was supposed to be entertaining took an extended break he patrons considered to be too long. With a roomful of...

Hi all, it has begun to sink in. Sadly but inevitably. Wispa was the absolute boss of our property -- the female who ran the girl dog pack and made everything work seamlessly. You never know what you have till you have lost it and I have to tell you, that losing Wispa, head of a pack of 11...

Hi all. After I posted photos of the pups of our Ms. Ceely last week several of you in Australia who were familiar with her fabulous father -- Eng.Aust.NZ.Ch. Nevedith Rare Rogue -- asked to see a photo of Ms. Ceely's son who is very much like his grandfather. I snapped this photo of Cdn.Ch...

I am absolutely heartsick for you. This has been a positively awful week for much loved whippets, all gone well before their time. Lanny

Mark and Roy my heart goes out to you both losing Glen. I well remember the sad events that led up to your getting him but bigosh, isn't it wonderful you had him, if only for those eleven years. We had a litter out of his grandson, Cdn.Ch. N. Hfa Hanky Panky who is owned by our American...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lovely pups from a lovely mum Lanny and are you going to post an updated pic of Reckless Rogue too? We have an Ch. 'oldie' here by the N. Rogue before he left the UK, loved his type & offspring too. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you don't mind snow let me take a picture of...

I hardly know how to choose from this wonderful selection of names. My son and I are going to print out all the suggestions and save them till the pups have eyes open and a bit of personality and then we are going to try to match pups, personality and expression to the names. There are so very...

Just getting ready to do a round of early morning dog let outs and play sessions, collect their laundry and get that in to the wash and then I am going to come back in and start reading all these fabulous selections -- very carefully! I love the authentic names, I love the aboriginal names (my...

Love, love love those suggestions. We have Oz relatives and my brother got married in Australia after meeting his future wife on a cruise ship destined for Australia after he finished his masters degree in limnology and decided to explore the Great Barrier Reef for the southern equivalent of...

Hi all, I am clipping the first photo of five pups born yesterday afternoon -- how nice of mom to pick a mid-day whelping time! -- in the short space of an hour between 1 and 2 here at Avalonia. Dam of the litter is Eng.Ch. Nevedith Ceefa Ceely (Eng.Aust.NZ Ch. N. Rare Rogue x Eng.Ch. N. Justa...

I do too. She looks like our Ms. Ceely whom I sent you a photo of recently, taken at about the same time in her gestation. Ceely is right now in labour and me, anxious Mum, have been consigned to my computer by my son Mick, who is the breeder of record at Avalonia and who whelps all our...