Page 109 - K9 News - Issue 14 - December 2020

GREA
LINDGREAVE
LIND
My wonderful journey with our
Newfoundland’s……
I will tell you about how the Lindgreave
Newfoundland’s became a BIG part of our family
and show life, it started way back when I was
a young girl, I had been brought up in a family
where my mum and nan had different breeds of
dogs, but settled with Yorkshire terriers which
they decided to breed. I we’re often present
when the dogs went into labour and watched
them give birth which I found amazing to see. It
wasn’t until I reached my teens that I decided I
wanted to get my own dog, I wanting something
different from a Yorkshire terrier, and my mum
said I was allowed to have a Maltese terrier
nothing big, my dad got me a male Maltese
for my birthday, but to my disappointment he
bonded with my mum more with her being home
all day and I was at school so I lost my dog.
One weekend I was asked to go down into our
local town and visit the market to get meat for
Sunday lunch, my mum gave me some money
and off I went with a friend, before going to the
market we went into WH.Smiths book store,
my friend wanted to get a magazine me on the
other hand went off to look at dog books, this is
where I saw the most gorgeous big black dog
(Newfoundland) and Bernese Mountain Dog I
wanted one of these dogs, so instead of buying
the meat for Sunday lunch, yep you guessed it I
bought the book !!
Not only was my mum annoyed I bought the
book and we had nothing for Sunday lunch
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by Jane Lindley
she was also not going to budge on letting me
having a newfoundland or Bernese mountain
dog puppy, in the end she did and it was the
Bernese that she gave in too, unfortunately the
puppy I did buy wasn’t a healthy puppy and the
vet advised me to return her to the breeder.
On went my search for another dog, I was still
wanting a larger breed of dog so I got out my
book and had another look, on the page behind
the Bernese mountain dog was the bearded
collie, this is where I started my affix Lindgreave
in the late 80’s and began showing & breeding.
After the breakdown of my marriage and
bringing up four small children a single parent,
I decided to give up showing and breeding
and the beardies grew old and passed over to
rainbow bridge.
In 2005 I met my now partner Brian whom had
never had a dog, when you meet someone new
you tell them a bit about yourself and obviously
my topic of conversation was dogs !! Brian
and the kids started pestering me to get a dog,
“well” I said “the only breed of dog I will have is
a newfoundland, I have wanted one for years”
Brian’s words were “what’s a newfoundland” I
decided to take him to a dog show for him to
meet one, everyone said there was nothing like
throwing him in at the deep end !!
In 2007 we put our name down at the Mayoss
kennel for our first newfoundland puppy her
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