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Gill Knight’s
Gill Knight ’ s

Manc hester T er r ier s
Manchester Terriers

I purchased my first Manchester Terrier in 1991, responsible for doing the Discover Dogs Stand
found I enjoyed showing and so did our girl for many years, right up until 2020, decorating
Trixie. She won her first CC from Junior class, the stand and coordinating the volunteers
made a champion a few months after, we caught and their dogs. Gill has served on the BMTC
the bug and never looked back. Now 30 years in committee for many years until January 2020
the breed. Unfortunately, she never had our affix when she resigned.
as she won her stud book number early and we
took the affix Talanors in 1992. Initially it was in
the name of Knowles but changed to Gill and
Clive Knight when we married in 2001.

Our first ‘Talanors’ dog was Ch Talanors
Ticket to Ride, followed by Talanors Magic
Tricks (Tess) She had a couple of litters for
us, producing our little showgirl Tia Ch and
International ChTalanors Trick N Treat. She
won BOB World Winner in Sweden in 2007. Tia
produced us some lovely puppies and some
show champions, including Ch, Int Ch, World
Ch and World Winner in Denmark and Paris
Talanors Hellova Treat for Sipowitz. Stui was
our first puppy to be shown by others and this
was a great honour for us to have other people
show our dogs and be so successful.

During the years we attended many publicity
and promotional events with our dogs where we
could allow people to meet Manchester Terriers
and get to know what they were like. We were

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