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Meet the Breeder Meet the Breeder
Dave & Pat Foose
Pendleton Chows, LTD
Q. Tell us a little about yourself outside of dogs – Companies is prominent in Large Commercial
i.e. family, work, other hobbies. Building. The founder, Gerald Phipps was a brilliant
businessman who owned the Denver Broncos early on
Thank You, Chow Life for interviewing us, we will and gave much to the city of Denver philanthropically.
answer some questions and share our perspective from I consider myself a geeky girl having worked at high-
Pendleton Chows and the desk of Dave and Pat Foose. tech companies since ’79. The only relevance to my
We were both born and raised in Newburgh, NY and chow life with my career was that I traveled a lot and
enjoyed living 60 miles north of NYC. We met in the found creative ways to invite myself to visit other
fabulous 70’s and after I graduated from SUNY New Chowists, while I was on the road for Storage Tek,
Paltz we married and moved immediately to Colorado. Exabyte, Chaparral, LeftHand Networks or finally HP.
Something about a skier’s dream and a place where we Honestly, seeing dog people and going to shows was
could start our new lives together was really appealing. what kept me/us sane with all the mileage and meetings
The less obvious significance of our move was that we as a road warrior sales/account manager, many thanks
stayed with Dave’s brother and his wife and they had to all those who welcomed us for visits whenever we
Chows. They were very dark red and we instantly fell could triangulate a business trip with a show or a chow
in love with Tía and Booboo. It was while we were friends’ litter to evaluate. We each have a competitive
walking them in the neighborhood one day, that we facet of our personalities - mine in sales and always
found our own little bungalow to rent in Longmont, striving to be the best at what I do and Dave’s goes back
CO. In 1977, Dave decided to celebrate our 6th month to Downhill Ski Racing and Motor-cross motorcycle
of Mr. & Mrs. with a trip to the airport. Secretly he’d racing and having four brothers. I think when you are
found a puppy that we were going to pick up. He the middle child you are competing for something all
quickly became our life purpose and we named him the time.
Shiho. In Chinese that meant (or so we were told) all
four compass directions all at once. Since he was an Q. Tell us, briefly, why and when you got involved
energetic little guy who ran crazy play circles whenever in purebred dogs, and with Chow Chows in
we came home; his name was a good fit and we loved particular. How did this progress into showing
him so much. It was all meant to be and our landlord and eventually breeding?
said one dog would be okay. It was going to be OK no
matter what, so how convenient for us. We have managed to accomplish a few things with
Dave began his apprenticeship as a carpenter our small kennel and love of chows. Pendleton Chows
and has worked in the Carpenter and Millwrights Ltd. has credit for winning three National Specialties
with two different dogs. The first National Dave
realm for thirty plus years; promoted to Senior won was BIS BISS Am Neth Bel Lux CH Pendleton’s
Superintendent for General Contractor based in King Arthur (1988) under Frank Sabella. The second
Colorado. The company, GH Phipps Construction National was won with BIS BISS CH BearDen’s
58 Captivating De-Lite (1999), in Colorado under Mrs.
Susan Pedersen (Susan completed the assignment for
Bill Bergum who suffered a heart attack in the ring and
survived because we had some fast acting CPR trained
people in the ring that day. The third National was
judged in 2000 by F Paul A Odenkirchen in St Louis
and he put ‘Capper ‘ up that day. With that third win
the Liontamer Challenge Trophy offered by Robert &
Jean Heatherington & Dr. Samuel Draper in 1976 was
permanently retired.
