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Photo is of TAUFIELD MIGHTY DASH O TAIL (Dash) DOB 3-7-2008
FOR ALL THE INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS OF ME AND THE DOGS
2010
NOV 2011 FEB Well the glen puppies have arrived and I am enjoyng them big time. they are learning to walk on lead and what can I say it is all I ever dreamed 3 of this litter will hit the rings soon the paperwork is now sorted and we should have it this week. my red boy from Dash & Chief I have called Paddles (after the Master Cricketer Richard Hadlee) he is also learning to walk on lead and is a lovely boy hope he does well in the ring for me. Now I often talk about us going for a morning hoon and was asked by someone if it was a Kiwi word as they had only heard it in relation to young men with their cars It is a word I grew up with and was told it meant ripping & tearing around (suits the car hoons) and when out walking basically the dogs are ripping and tearing here there and everywhere so I say we had a hoon!!! sorry to those who did not understand the word hope this helps. MAR Well the paperwork for the Glens is finally done and I have the details of my two their first show will be at Nanago April 8th their profiles are now on dogzonline / my website good news from England that Bronte (dam) has a litter sister sire and grandmother DNA tested for PRA and are clear Kim & I will DNA test our puppys and I will also DNA test Astri for PRA Astri has had the eye test nd is provisional clear for PRA but now that a DNA test for it has been found it will be goods to be able to know before we bred with these guys. the 3 pups will be on the pointscore and we will have fun to see who makes the top Glen for 2011 June Well I haven't been doing much a few shows at Esk ag a few dogs entered but only myself, Donna with Anns Charlotte and Kaye McGhie with the Cliftop boy (Gunna Be A Star) well I thought there go the challenges and getting close to finishing I was a bit disappointed still out we went and our Judge Mrs J Horton from Vic gave Chief the chall and then BOB (9pts) I was over the moon especially to beat his older half brother and the next day at Lockyer Valley he took BOB again (8pts) leaving him 5 to title the next week at Lowood ag Chief got the last points to his title so he is now AUS CH CLIFTOP MASTER PUZZLE Wart & Chief have been running neck and neck for points but as Wart was res chall at 2 shows and 6pts at the 3rd she now needs 19 points to title hopefully before she has her next season but shows are running out this neck of the woods. oh well we will keep trying
AUG Well I have been having a lot of problems with my computer but today it is behaving so will try to catch up the news. I will be getting my puppy from Jean next week and have entered her in her first show at Wondai Ag 3rd Sept she will be three months on the day. Well Dash was 2 days late and had her pups on 30th we have 6 pups 3 f & 3 m SEPT Well my new girl arrived from Tassie she is a happy pup and is settling in well with my dogs. We went to Wondai yesterday first show and did she strut her stuff I was very pleased with the way she walked around the ring and the judge (NZ) said after our triangle very straight and true in movement a very nice puppy then he gave her puppy of breed over the boy puppy who is 5 1/2 months old (a nice dog) so was thrilled with that for her first show (3mths on the day) did not get anything else staffy got baby again!!!!!!!!!! Fallon got her challenge Judge made comment on her bite but said only a little fault but would not take her further, he was impressed with her said she was a very nice specimen of the breed shame about the mouth. I was just happy he awarded her as so many judges are too (in my opinion) pedantic on the scissor bite. and I have seen so many good dogs dumped over not so good dogs on their mouth fault in different terrier breeds. I had an Aussie with 2 front teeth out of place and one judge told me his mouth was wry (WRONG) wry mouth is when the jawbone is out of alignment not the teeth. and a terrier uses his canines & molars to kill prey not those 6 front teeth I wish judges would learn that and forget scissor bite and check that canines back are correct instead. Anyway I am pleased with Xena her bloodlines are absolutly spot on she is a good combination and Jean got it right I am so pleased to have her in my yard. All pups are growing well and looking good at this stage. Faye has a week to go but she is so big I don't think she will get to next sun. my friends at Wondai show have all picked a day and bet on when she will drop!!!!! cheeky buggers Well what a time I have had first Faye had her pups on wed 7th sept 8 all up 5m 3f including twins (they were born in the same sac. She had the first one and the second seemed to be taking forever and I thought it might be a trip to the vet anyway out it popped and my first thought was "thats a big one' she started to break the bag and clean it it and there were two heads. I got in closer and there were two little pups I was suprised to say the least. she then popped out the rest with no effort at all. I took some photos and went to put them in the computer and it was dead. bigtime. so of course I have not been able to do anything in here at all. trying to get phone no's for the puppy buyers was fun. but we got there. Dhana let me use her computer for important stuff. but I have now got a new computer and have to load everything back up but we will get there I still have to get my printer to work have tried it but the computer doesn't want to accept it. will have to do something fairly quick as Wart is now a Champion and I need to get it on the pointsccore for Breeders. Anyway puppys are growing fast and Fayes babies are now 3weeks old Dashs are 4 1/2weeeks and Cuttys are 6 weeks and outside in the puppy pen. I finished the month on a sad note in that my Muffin "CH Negura The Heartthrob" who was 17 yrs on the 2nd Sept gave up her will to live after 4 days of watching her go downhill I took her to the vet and she is now whole again at the Rainbow Bridge and my Clif "CH Taufield Mighty Mouse" has joined her he had a go at another black snake which got him. I buried them together and I know Clif will look after Muff. as the poem says SMILE FOR WE WALKED TOGETHER FOR A LITTLE WHILE RIP my darlings I miss you both very much OCT I hope this month will improve on the last. well we are well into Oct and the puppies have been a godsend I am still missing Muffin so much and Clif has left a hole as well. but being busy with the pups has helped a little. Chief is off soon to South Africa to live and be shown he flies the 1st Nov. so this week I have to give him a groom up for his new owner will miss little Chief at the moment he is trying to fill Clifs shoes as boss dog but it is not really working. the dogs are a bit leaderless at the moment as Muff was the boss with Clif as second in command as the ones left are all young they have no-one to step up I guess they will sort it eventually. here are a couple of photos of my new little Miss Mouse (Clif daughter) and Bear (Faye /Chief son) can't wait till the can go in the ring. Chief arrived save and sound and George is very happy with him. Chief is an easy dog to get on with. Had the Aussie Club AGM and I was nominated along with 2 others for the secretarys job but I feel I am not in a good place at the moment and would not do justice to the job at this time. so I declined the offer and Lesley Roebig is now our secretary I am still cent auction secretary and publicty officer. so can keep busy there. my Xena is growing up and is looking very nice her breeding is coming to the fore and I am very very happy with her. she will be a keeper and not leave home. I am still missing Muffin very much guess the pain will eventually lessen. Scarlett is back home from NSW a champion she has no ruff at the moment so will need to wait for that to regrow and she has had all the hair under her chin removed so no apron to speak off as well. was going to enter her in the New year shows but don't think she will be coated enough worse luck she is up to her old tricks of stalking the blue/tan bitches!!!! I have put Liam on the market but no nibbles yet hope to find him a home before Christmas looking forward to the Lockyer Valley shows on the weekend the last for me until New Year at Wondai. Well coominya was good Faye was res chall ru breed on the fri and chall bitch BOB sat. but on fri we had a run in with a boxer who was staked out and as I went to go around him and give him a wide berth I realised he was on a very very long lead and he kept on coming and went for fallon who went right back at him suddenly people were coming from all directions and pulled the boxer away I nearly tripped over as I was trying to run backwards with the dogs and keep an eye on the boxer. faye fell over and fallon went for her I dropped Fayes lead and hauled back on fallon poor xena didn't know what to do. Faye took off and people started to chase her I yelled at them to leave her as she would just head back to the car. which she did but she was freaking it for the rest of the night poor dog so was pleased she went well in the ring 3 bitches entered. on the sat she was wary and fallon was very anti dog I must have wrenched my wrist as it has been painful ever since and quite swollen I wish people had the brains they were born with and use them if a dog is to be staked it should not be able to take up the walkways as well as its own spot!!!!!!!!!!! DEC Well had fun on the weekend NOT on sat I heard the dogs barking and went out saw 2 of them with something on the ground went to see what it was and as I got close realised it was my wee Mouse. she was stiff and her head on an odd angle. I picked her up raced inside to ring the vet (make sure he was there) and took her in to him she was in a bad way was at the vets overnight and at 7.30am I got a ph call from vet with the good news that she was fine and I could bring her home. It had been a very subdued household on sat night the dogs were very quiet and were they pleased to see Mouse on sun morning. playing again under my feet as usual. I am so pleased that Mouse has survived. Mouse is special to me as she is sired by Clif The vets are saying that the snakes are really bad this year and they have been seeing far more snake bites than normal. so be careful out there everybody. In four & half years here I have never had snakes in the house yard but Clif killed 6/7 in the yard this year since the floods until the last one got him. 2012 JAN The new year has started well I went to the wondai shows 15 Aussies entered and on the 31st = 5 babies entered 4 bitches- and Golidlocks was baby bitch Diva 2nd and Bear baby breed Xena was res chall bitch 1st Jan Xena was again res chall bitch and Runnerup breed and Diva was baby breed Mouse 2nd and Group Paddles was Chall dog 2nd jan Diva was again baby breed & baby group Fallon was chall BOB 31st & 1st jan and non awarded on 2nd jan teeth again I have had Scarlett Astri and Cutty and Fallon all in season over the Christmas New year break and Liam & Paddles have been typical males and driving me up the wall still it can't be much longer before it is over for a few more months LOL Scarlett was supposed to come in in Nov but was 4 weeks late right on Christmas (bad timing) was supposed to go to Mackay but because of holidays couldn't get her there so tried next dog on the Gold Coast they were away for Xmas /Boxing day and so not to be. will have to wait for next time. Next week I have Darling Downs so hope the kids go well Fallon only needs 3 chall and she is a champion. Well Darling Downs shows finished sat Paddles only dog took chall and nothing else Faye was freaking it so didn't show her Mouse was being very naughty amd even Xena played up. Fallon was non awarded evrything was not impressed with the judge at all and the comments today (sun) around the ring were not complimentary at all even from people who did well under her. but today Sun the kids really behaved and even Faye was good so showed her Paddles chall dog Faye Chall bitch & BOB Xena res chall bitch & runnerup breed Mouse walked very well and actually behaved. Foxie baby got the group. Fallon got her chall & BOB was pleased with her Lila helped me in the group lineup with 2 BOB a bit hard. I knew Fallon wouldn't get looked at for group but she went well for Lila so happy about that. Went to Wondai on sun and had a really good day Lila helped me with the aussies which was good and Faye was chall bitch (3entries) and Bear was baby breed over his sister Fallon got her chall and BOB and the Judge from NSW was very nice and treated everyone equally win lose or draw it made the day Even got to run a Dogue de Bordeaux for Robyn so all in all enjoyed the day So to all the nice Judges out there Thank You |
here is Clifs snake it has a few bites on it.
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