Memories

Lunch out with Steve to celebrate our 27 years of lovely and lunacy was lovely. We only went to Pant Du, but it was a nice change. Not the best photo, we look like we've had a bottle or two, but we only had lunch and a coke! 

It's rained all afternoon; not a word of complaint from me! After looking at houses for sale in the area, as I do, I got on with deleting the hundreds of crap in my Google Photos account. I started with November 2014 today. Why did I save so much shit? Duplicates of duplicates, blurred photos, and of course dozens of photos of other people's dogs from shows. Thankfully over the last few years I've been more careful, but this year when I realised Google Photos was not a bottomless pit, I started working through years of rubbish. 

Of course there is rubbish, but there are also wonderful memories that fill my heart with love ... this was a very young and very raw Mikey ... now what did Sharon Bowen say about a young Dexi? Pin head ... well my god here was another Pin head puppy that grew into a stunning adult! 

Zavi In Stance At Club

A screenshot from a video from training last night. It's not perfect, but I tried. He doesn't look too bad, does he! His head could have looked better if he was looking slightly up the hall, as it, we lose it a little. Anyway it gives me an idea of how he looks and it's great to look back and compare! 

Wednesday Walks

What Went Down ...

These two photos were taken last night. 

With Meerah on the sofa - chewing hooves! 

I just couldn't believe this today - he looks totally different, doesn't he! 

I'm well aware that they could collapse again, but I'm dead chuffed this morning.

Wrong Side

 

Zavi came with me to get the recycling trolley back in this morning. Mr Naughty was watching sheep, but I had to take the photo before taking him into my office to discuss the matter! LOL Such a shame I was on the wrong side, but you can see he still has a lot of potential! 

Our Kate

At home with her mummy, Mattie, and one of the Labs. You can see she has so many colour changes already, Zavi is only just starting to get his new jacket. They say females always mature quicker, and wow you can see it here. I've always been under the impression that pups with more coat take longer to start getting the adult hair. It will be interesting to watch and compare the siblings as they mature. 

From this short video Kate looks like she will be a cracking mover. 

A Morning Of Walking

Zavi Loved Cwm Dulyn

Steps and bridge - No problem!

Water was so much fun. I loved his careful confidence. 

My favourite photo of the day - thank god I had my camera, or I would never have got this. 

My stunning Ross in one of his favourite places - wow the water was low.

Blast From The Past

Earlier this week we learned of the death of Eric Broadhurst, the man of Rosehurst fame. Whether it was foresight or luck, but the mating of Uran to Ramana in the 80ies changed the path of the modern GSD to bring us closer to what we recognise in the ring now. From that mating the breed was blessed with International Ch Rosehurst Chris, a magnificent dog who truly was before his time. At the time, Chris and Ch Bedwins Pirol dominated the show ring through their wins and their progeny's wins. I still consider myself really lucky to have started my line with Nikki, a "Chris" daughter. (In the photo)

I first came across Eric when I applied for a job at the Rosehurst kennels. It was before I had Blade, and the kennels were only a short distance from where my brother worked at Prestwich Hospital. I stayed over with him and had a lovely time. I was over the moon to be offered the job, but when the other kennel assistant told me that I'd have to leave Pepsi at home or kennel him on the property, I declined the offer of the job. There was only one static caravan for the staff and her Dobs would not have accepted Pepsi, there was just no way I would have left him behind or kenneled him. I often wonder, what could have been? 

A very young Blade and Pepsi in the second photo.

So Nikki, the Chris daughter, was my foundation, and in her first litter to the import Arko Vom Huhnegrab she produced Aria, Dexi and my lovely Seffe - who continued the line at Blanik. Knowing sod all when I bought Nikki, I basically signed the pick of litter away to her breeder. (Well it was a verbal agreement, but valuable lessons were learned.) Heartbroken at having to give my heart puppy Aria away I also stupidly "sold" Dexi to him and settled to a future with Seffe. 

Well at Driffield Champ  show I learned something new about Dexi. You see Dexi came back to Blanik before he was 6 months old, I had to pay more to have him back and I took him straight to the vets as his back legs were horrendous, the vet told me that all she could find wrong was his lack of muscle, I remember her words "I've seen more muscle on an 8-week-old puppy, so that is how you have to treat him now; build him up slowly." I did and Dexi became a super star. So 30 years on, and the owners of Dexi's sire bring him up in conversation at a dog show, and they tell me something I didn't know. So apparently they went to visit Dexi and Aria at their home and decided to take Aria home. They were asked about Dexi's hindquarters and told him they didn't think there would be an issue once he was fit, but they said his head was too feminine and that he would never make it with his "pin -head!" So I paid more money to have a dog back that the owners of his sire thought had lost potential, so yeah remembering what I was told then... someone I had a lot of respect for then lied to me! As it happened, I had the last laugh and Dexi developed a beautiful masculine head. The person telling me the story said they would never make a judgement on a young dog's head again. 

I Couldn't Choose

I usually take two or three photos in one spot, keep one and delete the other/s. 

I love all of these of Beti and Meerah. I just couldn't choose!