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Q. What is your kennel name, stilted rear movement follows. Wendy Saunier’s kennel. We have had
and how did you come up with another girl in the top 5 with limited
it? showing the same year. Another nice
Q. What has been your Highlight was our first Best in Show
We chose our kennel name, biggest highlight? The biggest
Winsong, by using the Winrock disappointment? Brace. Ch. Winsong’s Rhapsody In
Shopping Center logo from The Lace, “Rappie” and her brother CH.
Rockefeller center in Albuquerque Our biggest Highlight has been in Winsong’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,
The sun over the beautiful mesas the quality of our Bitches produced “Smokie”, they took that Best in Show
we loved was easily translated into a in our kennel. We have consistently Brace under DR. Sam Draper. When
chow head in the corner of the sun. produced more outstanding girls than looking at pedigrees, we learned that
It was WINsong, not WINDsong, as our boys. When looking at pedigrees, if you want to get a good idea as to
we wanted to win, not wind over the a strong tail female line comes right what a puppy in a planned litter would
Mesas!! It has served us well over the down from Tsang Po’s Ming Lee, look like, look at the grand parent’s
years. an all-time producer of champion phenotype.
get. Our outcrosses were in select
We developed our kennel Near Sires from line bred pedigrees having Louise Martin established Owlhead
Brighton on 10 acres, with 20 indoor/ qualities we needed in each breeding. Kennel about 6 miles from us. We
outdoor runs, grooming area and We never did a breeding just to see worked together on some breeding’s.
kitchen. All with radiant heating and what we would get. We bred to We bred CH Bearden’s Incredible
window air conditioning. Outdoor always improve on what we had and Hunk to Winsong’s Hues Of Pooh
exercise paddocks were set up for our keep a show puppy. Line breeding as Bear, a blue girl, which produced a
dogs, rescue dogs and occasionally much as possible has worked well in black girl, CH Winsong’s N-Credible,
boarding for friends. We worked this endeavor. Georgia Brantley gave “Creedie”. Creedie was bred to CH
on this development until the day us good advice when she said that if Owlhead’s Just In Your Dreams, “Fred”,
we sold it to another dog breeder we waited for the perfect dog to breed, the number one dog CCCI for some
and relocated to California where we would never produce a litter. Her time to produce BIS CH Winsong’s
we have no winter snow to battle!! advice was to take what you have, Tango In Dreamland. Tango went to
We downsized our kennel here in work with it to improve with each live with Michael and Linda Brantley
California to 10 runs, and started breeding. for her show career. That litter also
again with the letter “A” alphabetically produced a beautiful black boy, CH
in our litters. Our girls were special. We Winsong’s Trumpet Man “Louie” who
produced CH Winsong’s Tango in stayed at home and did some nice
Dreamland, a best in show Bitch winning. Sadly, we never got puppies
Q. In five words, describe your placed with Michael and Linda out of either of these beautiful dogs.
ideal Chow Chow. Brantley. This allowed us to be Meanwhile Charrisa Macdonell ,
The ideal chow in our opinion breeders of a best in Show Bitch, who was showing one of our dogs in
should meet the standard with being which there were only a very few at Canada, put us in touch with Audra
SQUARE, BALANCED, A PROUD that time. Also our Sarah, Winsong’s Dobrowney, who had a bitch she
ELEGANT LOOK, DERIVED FROM Serenade O’Moonbear who was the thought we might like. Audra had
NICE LENGTH OF LEG AND #1 Bitch, CCC.I in 1990. She was been breeding with the Mi-Pao line
ARCH OF NECK. When these are out of our Porgie and North Haven’s for some years. I drove to Canada and
correctly in place, good fronts and Jenny Moonbear, a cream girl in

CH Winsong’s Dream Catcher Winsong’s Lord Honeywell CH Winsong’s Yetty, ROM
(Service Dog Certified)