As you gathered all the puppies went of to their new homes and have taken over their families. Everyone has said that they are happy and healthy and alls well which is fab news. Greg Knight of Rural Shots came over and took some fabulous pictures of the pups which I promised people that I would send them on a CD but so far I havn't got around to doing - promise I will soon!!
In the meantime here are a few of the images Greg took.
I would highly recommend Greg to you if you want some stunning pictures of your dogs. Although he specialises in animal photography he takes all genres and I can quite honestly say that Ive never seen a bad photograph that he's taken yet!! Look him up and see his work its beautiful :o)
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We stayed in a really nice hotel and had the most beautiful dinner with great company.
I must say it made a real nice change to stay in a nice hotel rather than the very basic F1 Motels that we usually stay in on our flying visits to France. We did however have one nervous breakdown moment when discovered that they didn't supply a kettle in the room!!!! For anyone that knows Karen and myself you will know how horrified we were to think that we could make copious amount of tea whenever we needed it. It all turned out ok though as Anne and Wouter came to our rescue by bringing a kettle of theirs from home :o) Phew that was a close shave haha.
We traveled back to Calais for our trip home where we were meeting our good friend Keith who very kindly had picked up 2 Spinone boys from Italy for me. We met at Pet Passport Control and I was so excited to meet the boys that would hopefully bring fresh bloodlines into my breeding for the future. I wasn't disappointed as they were all I'd hoped they'd be. Frankie is a Brown Roan and Urio is a White and Orange. They're both soooo loving and very outgoing and bold, so far so good :o) Frankie spent a lot of the trip home poking his head through the grill trying to sit on our laps in the front but apart from that they travelled like a dream although at one stage Frankie was doing a great impression of a Davey Crockett hat - the picture tells it :o)
They settled in quickly and my dogs thought they were great so it couldn't have gone any better. It had been arranged that they would both be living with friends so they could get the individual attention that they would need as youngsters but like all good plans it didn't work out like that in the end. Frankie is still with us (he won't go anywhere else now) and Urio (now Gino) is living close by so will still see him regularly. Hopefully they will both be able to contribute some positive aspects to UK Spinone.
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On 15 December a lovely Spinone litter was born in France belonging to my friends Keith and Irene Barratt. Mum is a girl that I bred (Netis in the Mood) and a very nice boy in Italy called Urano owned by Roberto (dei Morenici kennel). She had 9 boys and only 1 girl and I travelled over to see them last month when they were 8 weeks old and had a lovely couple of days playing with puppies and Keiths beautiful horses (wish I could have stayed longer) and as a bonus the weather was really nice too :o)
The vet did his visit while I was there to do their microchip and first inoculation and all got a clean bill of health. One thing that I did find interesting with the vet is that the French put the microchips into the left side of the pups neck. I asked why and he said that its because the inoculations or other injections they have to have doesn't go into the same area as the microchip - I think thats pretty sensible!!
The pups were really gorgeous and if there had been some girls one of them would have definitely been coming back here :o) Big thanks to Keith and Irene for their hospitality.
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I havn't been to a show for several months now but I got good news recently to say that my boy Marco (Netis Got to be There) owned by Marie and Trevor Green, gained his third CC to make him a Show Champion. Of course I'm very proud of him and this is my 4th homebred UK Champion :o)
I didn't get to Crufts this year for the first time in I don't know how long but was pleased to hear that Cima got a very respectable 2nd place in a strong class of 16 bitches so well done to her and Sally.
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This picture is just for Beanie fans :o)
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What the? You have stolen my online id. I have been known as thehairymob online for as long as I have been online which is almost twenty years. Not happy.
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