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Pendleton Mills and the designs they created were in CH Rebelrun’s
my heirloom wardrobe from Mom. The first logo I Sir Tavish or
created for the kennel had a puppy in a sloppy sit and Pandee’s Theo.
a scarf around his neck in a loose knot. It was plaid We thought
and so the idea morphed to Pendleton Chows. Today we might
there is a remnant of the plaid on the website. I also have had
use a charcoal head study of Arthur on our letterhead our next big
and contracts. He was our 1st Champion out of the special then...
1st litter with the most extensive campaign and highest Another
ranking at No 2 in the CCCI Top 10 against the famous notably
Billy B. missed
opportunity
Q. What has been your biggest highlight? The we had in
biggest disappointment? the whelping
box was with
We agree that CH Pendleton’s King Arthur’s 1988 the bitch we
CCCI National Specialty win in Ft Worth, TX (the bought from
second largest entry of chows at the National Specialty) Barbara &
is our biggest chow kennel highlight. When you win Bill Boggs
the National it’s a big deal and he put us on the map and Joanne SuLinn’s with Luis as Judge in CA
and it is forever etched in the history of the CCCI as
it is reprinted in the catalog each year. We liked and O’Brien - CH
carried that tradition forward in the RMCCC catalog, Sylvan Hts Su Linn O Pendleton. She going to be bred
listing the winners, but I digress. to breed to Arthur and/or Kai but it never happened
Possibly the biggest disappointment is more of a due to her irregular cycles.
situation than anything we can hope to affect with
our breeding program. Our beloved breed was once Q. Looking back at where you’ve been, if you were
in the very prestigious top slot #6 as ranked by AKC starting out again today, is there anything you
Popularity based upon the number of litters registered would do differently?
in a calendar year. When we were ranked the Number
2 Chow Chow in 1988 we were distanced by 15,000 all- Looking back what would we do differently if we
breed points and we had accumulated roughly 9000 of were starting out again today. Hindsight is still 20/20
our own. Now because the sport is shrinking and the but we talked about this question for a little while and
cost of breeding, showing, traveling and maintaining a believe that there are a couple of things we learned too
kennel has is growing tremendously our Chows Chows late. One is if you have a special and he or she is hot...
are currently ranked #70 and the points system has do everything you can to campaign them. Their time
changed to breed points which are not in thousands of in the spot light is so short and you don’t want regret
dogs defeated in our breed anymore. It doesn’t seem to be the theme. We’re always saddened by retiring
as dramatic in this context but when you compare a dog who still loves to go and shows their heart out
50,000 plus litters to a little more than 300 annually just because the judge’s might find the next new dog.
registered in the US with AKC it makes more of an Another
impact statement. Is our beloved Non-Sporting breed thing we
heading for extinction along with many other Purebred think we
Dog Breeds? We are disappointed in the stewardship would do
of the chow fancy as a whole and the waning sport of differently is
Showing Dogs. Is the Baby Boomer population glut to have tried
responsible for the explosion of the sport and now harder to use
the contraction of it? If only we could each adopt one more line
person and mentor them into the active role of chow bred dogs
enthusiast we might have something for the future and from outside
to pass along. our kennel
and perhaps
Q. Is there a breeding that you wish you would geographic
have done and why? area in our
breeding
The breedings with the ‘what if asterisk’ at Pendleton program to
- CH Pendleton’s Christine might have been breed to foster healthy
outcrosses
and access CH Gold Fever of the Royal Club - out of
Arthur x Pillow Talk of the Royal Club