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This valuable tool was and still is used today to number of healthy, happy, fit for purpose litters
help us make the very best possible decisions in the past few years and experienced good
in our forward-looking breed plan. It has allowed successes in the show ring. We have produced
us to better understand the breadth of the a number of Lasagesse CC, RCC and Toy
available gene pool and to better understand group placings, we still have a long way to go to
the likelihood of successful breeding with achieve our original aims, but we feel we are on
different breed lines. It is also clear from the the right track.
analysis that line breeding and in some cases
close line breeding has been instrumental in We are super excited to be campaigning our
shaping our history as a breed and clearly line latest stud dog George (Witchstone Mine’s A
breeding is a direction, we have decided to Double At Lasagesse) once shows open up
follow at Lasagesse. Once we had enough data again. He made a tremendous impact in the
in place to make informed decisions regarding ring when he debuted in Jan 2020 winning BPIB
our breeding stock, we set off on the acquisition at both Manchester and Boston before also
path. In 2016 we imported our first bitch from taking Toy Puppy Group 1 and Toy Group 3 at
the Yurrugar the leading kennel in Australia, Boston. He has also sired a couple of litters
she was followed by a second brood bitch and and we hope to see his progeny in the ring too.
a couple of male stud dogs from the world We are equally excited to add the final piece of
renown Witchstone kennel. We must thank Andy the jigsaw to our breed plan with the arrival of
Leonard and Nick Gourley for their unconditional a super new brood bitch Tina (Ch. Witchstone
support and encouragement that they have Unexpected Gift), she brings with her super
offered us during our on-going breeder quality and the right breed lines to hopefully
apprenticeship. allow us to establish a breed line to achieve
our aims. Once again, we must offer our thanks
To date the data driven breed planning seems to the Witchstone team for allowing her to join
to be working for us, we have produced a Lasagesse.
The database that has been created
we believe to be an invaluable tool
for the breed in general and not
just Lasagesse kennel. It can help
build better awareness, better breed
planning and hopefully an even
healthier cohort of dogs. Examples
of some of the data published on our
website are included in this article
and additional data can be requested
by anyone.
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