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The
MIANJA
Journey
Michael & Jacqui Ward
The year 1969 and I was married to a hunting/ Hollings (Gunalt) lived in Leeds, where we also
shooting man and we owned working Labradors, lived so we arranged to go and see them, they
we used to attend many Game/Country fairs did not have any puppies, but their champion
where I used to see this wonderful aristocratic dog Sh Ch Hansom Brandyman of Gunalt
grey dog (I had not got a clue what breed it (Sam) had just been used at stud on a pet bitch
was) I asked my husband if we could have one near Blackpool. We contacted the owner of the
and he said no they were not proper gundogs! bitch and put our names down for a bitch, as it
Fast forward to 1979 our marriage dissolved happened she only had one puppy and it was
and I researched to find out what this grey dog a male, we decided to have him and Ben came
was, it wasn’t until 1980 and I met my current into lives. From that day forth our lives were
husband that we set out on the journey to find changed forever, we really did not know what
a puppy. We found out that Stephen and Patsy had hit us!
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