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Zentaur
Newfoundlands
Gary, Teresa, Faye & Elaine
Coldwell
Zentaur Newfoundlands involves our whole Zentaur Affix and in June 1990 our first litter
family with the kennel beginning with Gary and of puppies arrived from Whisper. We were
Teresa Coldwell when Faye and Elaine were completely thrown in the deep end with a lovely
just 7 and 4 years old who eventually ended up litter of 12 and eventually kept 2 puppies from
being added to the affix in 2010. Our journey the litter, one of which Dot (Ch Zentaur Hot
began in 1986 when, like most families had Gossip) had a successful show career and
to make the decision of which breed of dog ended up gaining her champion title in 1993.
we were going to bring into our family. The Following this Dot produced her own litter with
Newfoundland finally won, and we decided to Topsys Offenbach who was imported from
purchase our first puppy from the infamous Denmark with her progeny gaining RCCs.
Karazan kennel she was called Molly (Karazan
Chinadoll) Molly was shown at a local, fun level. It was at this point that we took a break
This is when the passion to get more involved in from showing due to other commitments but
the breed and an interest in breeding occurred continued to breed a litter every 2 to 4 years to
when we acquired an older bitch in 1988 called continue our line until 2006 we had a litter and
Whisper (Karazan Whisper) who was 18 months kept a bitch Asta (Zentaur Astabee Dottie). Asta
old and had already been successfully shown at gained 1CC and 1 RCC and had all the qualities
championship show level. of a lovely newf but she lacked the attitude to
continue showing and we decided to breed with
In 1989 and our 3rd attempt we applied for the her. What she lacked in attitude she certainly
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