Page 28 - Chow Life - Spring 2016

Meet the Breeder

Meet the Breeder

Michael & Linda Brantley

Dreamland Kennels

I met Michael at the Chow bred and showed, I began in Junior
National in California in 1987. showmanship. I learned about
The following year, I moved breeding from my parents and their
to Texas and we have been mentor, Hal Allen, of the original
married for almost 28 years. T’sang Po kennels.
Q. Tell us a little about yourself
outside of dogs – i.e. family, We have two daughters and five
work, other hobbies. grandchildren. Linda: I was raised in a family that
Michael: I was born, raised and still In 1999 we built a kennel to house loved hunting. My father always
live in Lubbock, Texas and have the dogs that Michael was training had an English Springer Spaniel
been handling dogs professionally and handling. We decided to make that he took hunting. Dogs and cats
for over 40 years. Additionally, it big enough so that I could stay have always been a big part of my
my wife and I own and operate a home and do a boarding business. life and I remember going to the
commercial boarding kennel. My It has flourished into a full time job local animal shelter at least once
mother and father bred and showed with several employees and keeps a month just to see and play with
Pekingese before I was born and me busy. the animals there. I have owned a
then bred and showed Chows for The dogs take up most of my time large assortment of mixed breed
many years. I have two daughters but when I have a moment to relax, and rescue dogs over the years but
and five grandchildren. I enjoy I love Jigsaw puzzles, shopping with Chows are the only purebred dogs I
tinkering around our acreage, target my daughters and I stay active in have owned.
shooting and spending time with our church where one of our son- I saw my first purebred chow
the grandkids. in-law’s is the pastor. puppy while attending an obedience
class and it was love at first sight. Shania.....CH Dreamland’s Gone and Done it
Linda: I lived the first 30 years of By happy coincidence, there was
my life in Oregon where I was the Q. Tell us, briefly, why and a dog show in town the following
youngest of 7 siblings. All of my when you got involved in weekend and I went and met several
family still lives there, I am the only purebred dogs, and with Chow breeders. I eventually purchased
“traitor” that moved away! Chows in particular. How did a companion puppy from one of
this progress into showing and those breeders, Pat & Chuck Clark
While in Oregon, I showed,
trained and bred American eventually breeding? . I was hooked. I purchased my
Saddlebred Horses. Michael: As I grew up in a home that first female a couple years later and

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