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love affair with this vulnerable breed began.
I quickly learnt and developed a new showing
technique and “Basil” started his show career.
He was a cracking little dog and did us proud
gaining along the way the Dog CC at Crufts
in 1998 under the great Mr Ellis Hulme. We
really should have made him up to a champion
but life got in the way with careers and family
commitments…..we couldn’t do it all.
Basil lived a very fruitful life. He became a father
of Champions, was ”Our Dogs” Top Sire and
was used at stud by John Cottrell (Warwells)
and Linda Brown (Garbosa), to name just
a few, going on to produce a Best in Show
winning bitch at the English Toy Terrier Club
Championship Show plus two Best Puppy in
well in “Junior Handling” with the setters. She Show winning bitches and two International
saw a full page advert in the weekly paper “Dog Champions. He had a good life and died at over
World” of Champion Thalcyon Cymro Mon at seventeen years of age.
Garbosa and so the decision was made……this
was the breed she wanted to show. It was this legacy that we built on and bearing
in mind that we are a small family kennel and
Trying to dissuade her from choosing this little have only bred litters to produce new stock to
fragile looking toy breed was impossible. show for ourselves we feel content with our
involvement in this breed.
We were gundog folk not used to mincing
around the ring with a teeny tiny dog. Still, we Today we still show our beloved little black and
were a good as our word and this led to our tans and remain involved with the development
meeting with Diane and Colin Probert and we and direction of the breed by sitting on the
acquired Artholin Dill On Boimans. What committee of The English Toy Terrier (Black &
an introduction to the breed…….he took no Tan) Club.
prisoners and was soon trying to police the very
laid back and gregarious setters at the tender
age of nine weeks.
It was soon evident that this little man did not
want to be shown by our daughter preferring my
company and so the seed was sown and our
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