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NOW AND THEN

By Dr Desiree Scott
So now we have the longest break in dog shows
since the Second World War.

And this time shares with that war a huge
stoppage in international travel, isolating UK dog
populations for the first time since the creation of
the Pet Passport twenty years ago.

Of course, travel was mainly for the wealthy
during the interwar years, well costed package
holidays and mass travel are a phenomenon
of the 1970s and later. Some show dogs did
cross the seas, mainly to the United States,
and some travelled over the Atlantic more than Charlotte Hayes Blake Hoyt with Ch, Am Ch and
once, the Wildoaks Wire Fox Terriers of Mrs Swiss Ch Nunsoe Duc de la Terrance of Blakeen
Marjorie Bondy being a set of well-travelled
dogs collecting titles on both sides of the sea. Afghan Hound Ch Rana of Chaman changed
Appropriate with the fortune spent on the his name to Ch, Am and Can Ch Rana of
terriers, Mrs Bondy and her husband Richard Chaman of Royal Irish when he went to the
lived on a New York estate with a mansion US after his Harrogate win. Bred by Mrs Mollie
modelled on an English Castle. The money Sharpe, he went via Mr Reg Floyd (Ravelly)
came from the sale of cigars, Mr Bondy was to another flamboyant American, with nearby
vice president and director of the General Cigar estate, Mrs Marion Foster Florsheim. He was
Company. the first male Afghan to win a US BIS, and
won the Hound Group at Westminster in 1941.
The last championship show before the war was Mrs Foster
at Harrogate on Saturday the 2nd September Florsheim
1939, the day after Poland was invaded, and was an
the day before war was declared. Several of the enthusiastic
CC winners went to the States, including the pilot, taking
Gordon Setter Sh Ch and Am Ch Great Scot, her hounds
who became Great Scot of Blakeen, owned with her to
by Charlotte Hayes Blake Hoyt whose kennel US Airforce
name was more famous for Poodles. From bases as she
her lakeside estate in Katonah, New York, she flew planes
handled her own dogs from the 1930s wearing around as
white gloves as part of her chic ensemble. She a founder
was the first woman to win BIS at Westminster member of
which she did in 1935 with the white standard, the Women
Ch, Am Ch and Swiss Ch Nunsoe Duc de la Air Force
Terrance of Blakeen. Service Am Ch Rudiki of Prides Hill

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