Our 2009 news

08-12-2009
It has been very busy the last couple of weeks and we did not have much time to work on our homepage but we have now updated several pages and added a new ones: PRADA and MEGAN :-)

We have also been to our last show for this year, the Amsterdam Winnershow. I had only entered Spooky as the judge had judged several of our dogs before and apparently couldn't really appreciate them as much as other judges do :-)
Just Spooky this time even though we would have loved to enter more of our dogs :-( Glad we did not as with a perfect report we ended up in 4th place (out of 10) and reading the report it makes you wonder why she got 'just' 4th:

Perfectly constructed 16 months old female with a wonderful silhouette from the side.
Nice pigmentation. Beautiful eye, sufficient length in head, beautiful ears. Excellent forechest and body.
Perfectly angulated front and rear. Marvelous coat condition and colour. Excellent movement.
Perfect presentation.

We added our Amsterdam result to our showresults page and updated the rest of it.

Updates can also be found on the page with announcements of litters by our boys with other breeders and more updates will follow soon.

23-11-2009
New puppy pictures and a new picture of Lisa on the openingspage.

Good news this week: Both Tinsel and Trae are genetically clear of CEA/CH! With thhis result we now also know that Spooky as well as our 4 puppies are genetically clear of CEA/CH (both parents are).
We expected this result with Trae because of the results of his litters but had not expected it with Tinsel.

Lisa's operation did not work out as hoped. Just after a few weeks the pin came out of the bone and had to be removed. I will post complete story on my Weblog later this week.

27-10-2009
Yesterday we went to the vet again to have Lisa's hock checked. De stitches couldn't yet be removed and she needed another bandage to keep things a little straight but so far it is looking good. We're back again on Saturday to have it checked again.

Last Sunday we went to the championship show of the Dutch Sheltie Club and had a lovely day among friends althou for me it was quite a busy day.
First is was 'Prada's" turn in the babydog class. He got graded "Promising" but we can not complain about that as lots of really lovely babies left the ring with "Not Promising" not many people did understand what was happening here but it was not only the babies that were judged like this, it contuinued in the Puppies and also in with the veterans.

Anyway..... Prada behaved lovely in the ring and enjoyed being there so we are sure we will have lots of fun with him.

I decided not to show Howard because of his coat, or I better say his lack of coat as there was not much left of it and it just didn't seem fair to take him into the ring.
Trae got Excellent 3 in the championclass, he was also not in his best jacket but looked a pictre and behaved better than he did the last few shows.

Last but not least I showed our old man Robin who will be 14 years of age in about 2 months time. He really enjoyed his day there and to my big surprise he got 1st Excellent in the veteran males. Robin was the oldest dog entered this day.
A picture of Robin at the show will hopefully follow soon.

In bitches I entered two, Gale got Very Good 2nd in veteran bitches were all the entered dogs (under which 4 champions) got graded like this......
Our hero of the day was young Spooky who won a big Junior bitch class with 1st Excellent and now completes 3 generations of blue merle bitches that did win the junior class at our clubshow (Farouche -2001, Tinsel - 2006 and now Spooky)
A picture of Spooky will also hopefully follow soon.

Congrats also to the owners of some dogs we bred for their results and also the to owners of dogs sired by our males as many of them did very well.

Stars of this day were ofcourse Addie and Thea with their Addie's NIck Nack from Marmorea's Shelter who won Best of Breed and the title of Clubwinner 2009, 'Nina's daugher Diva in Blue from Marmorea's Shelter (S: Ch.Dawnville When Lightning Strikes) who beca,e Best Puppy in Show.
CONGRATULATIONS ADDIE AND THEA FOR YOUR FIRST CLUBWINNER AND YOUR FIRST HOMEBRED CHAMPION!!

18-10-2009
~ You are no where without the help of some dear friends ~
What a dramatic week :-(

The puppies were born on Wednesday just after we had heard that Lisa's hock joint was broken. I will try to put the story on the Weblog when I have time.
The hock needed to be operated on.

Tempo was mated twice en now we have to wait and see. Thank you Al for letting me use your lovely boy!

06-10-2009
Last weekend we went to the international show in Zwolle (Netherlands) where Scottish Sheltiebreeder Mrs. A Wyse (Rivvalee) was the judge.
Before the show I thought I must have lost my mind at the time I had entered my 2 dogs because one of them was Flirt (Can.Ch.Newdawn What's Up). Despite my doubts, we had a SUPER day !!
Flirt won CAC/CACIB and Best of Breed out of over 40 entered Shelties. Our veteran girl Gale won Best Veteran and 6th Best Veteran of the day.

We were really over the moon with Flirts win as this is the 2nd UK breed specialist that gives her a major award (the other being Mr.Bathurst in Leeuwarden who awarded her Res.CAC/Res.CACIB)
Flirt now has 2 CAC's and 2 Reserve CAC's in Holland, hopefully she will continue her winning ways next year, for this year we do not have judges anymore we think can judge her on her virtues but will only 'see' the pedigree ....

20-09-2009
New pictures from Finland, this time send to us by Kaisa Vanhatalo (Happy Master's)

19-09-2009
It's very obvious now that Tinsel is going to have puppies, by the looks of it, it is going to be more than just the 1 she had last time... We expect these babies around the 7th of October.
Flirt has been mated 3 weeks ago, in a week or so it will be clear if she is in whelp or no. When all is well and she is going to have babies we expect another litter of blues and tri's mid October.

We received lots of photos the past couple of weeks.
Among them was this lovely picture of Tempo's first champion son: PL.Ch.Dawnville Zetos for Lovesome - "Zefi" (Sired by: Ch.Dawnville When Lightning Strikes)

'Zefi' is pictures here at 4 1/2 years of age and in the meantime siring some lovely puppies himself.

'Zefi' is Genetically clear of CEA, MDR1 +/+ and HD-A.

below the kids of Howard at kennel Pilvimarjan in Finland, for more pictures of this lovely litter you can click HERE. This litter is CEA clear.

25-08-2009
For a while I had no interest in updating this homepage but finally decided to put some effort in it again ;-)
For a lot it was obvious already but once again Tempo did not have puppies, we are going to try one more time and are hoping we are a little more lucky this time. Not sure yet about the choice of male. Meanwhile we have also been to England with Tinsel who was mated by Mohnesee Mr Palmer again just like last year when we got Spooky (see below).
Big THANKS to the Mohnesee's for a few lovely days :-)
Flirt finalliy came in season also and will hopefully be mated soon.
Not much else to report, we have not been to any shows since June so not much to brag about for the moment ;-) This year will only have a few shows left all depending upon if the girls will have puppies or not.

21-06-2009
Lots of (old) news and finally the pictures I promised weeks ago!! :-)
First there are new showresults for Flirt and Spooky who went to the International show in Oss (NL). Flirt got the Reserve CAC/Reserve CACIB and Spooky wasn't placed in Junior class but did get Excellent grading..
One of the things mentioned in her report was that the colour could be better divided ????


Here she is from both sides, nothing wrong with how she is marked we think or ???? Well at least we know now that merle was not the judges colour ;-))

At the same show Trae's sable daughter Anahera from Marmorea's Shelter got 1st Excellent in Junior class. This was Ruby's first show ever. Congratulation to her breeders Addie and Thea de Jong !!

Some pictures of Trae children we have received:

	First the sable son of Trae and Secret Mystery Only For Joy (Grandgables Dressed To IMpress daughter). Xanadu is pictured at 10 months of age just after winning BOB and Group-2 at his first (open) show in Junior class.
Secret Mystery Oh Me Oh My Oth Nite - "Xanadu"

We also got pictures of Perry's blue merle son who was born at kennel "Of Norah's Nearness"

and finally...... A picture of Therese (Ch.Dawnville Where There's Smoke) and her beautiful blue merle daughter Zoji Zest For Life v.Ohmtalteufel (S.: Moorwood Caribean Night Trophy).

09-06-2009
I had promised pictures that we had received but lack of time caused some delay in this, we now have also received pictures of Perry's son which we want to show you so we will try and find some time to arrange uploading them :-)

Last weekend we went to the double show in Portoroz in Slovenia and luckily we didn't went all that way for nothing.
The first day we won 2x CACIB and 1 Junior CC which means we have qualified 3 dogs for Crufts at just 1 show :-)
The second day we won a Res.CACIB and a CACIB, didn't enter the Junior class as we have no interest in the Slovenian Junior champion title which brings us nothing. We only took Spooky to try and qualify her for Crufts and she did :-) (as did the others so we qualified 3 at one show!)
With winning the CACIB on the first day Trae became an International champion as well now, full result can be found on our show results page.

25-05-2009
Last weeke I have been to the International show in Leszno (PL) with my good friend Beate Alexander, thank you Beate for asking if I was interested to come :-)
We started out on Friday heading for Poland and ended up a little while over the border when we decided it was time to find a hotel.
The hotel was completely empty but we ended up on the 2nd floor (with no elevator) with our gear and 4 dogs (3 Shelties and 1 Collie). We still had another 120 kilometers left to go before we would be at the showground and 120 kilometers in Poland means a drive of over 2 hours so we got up early, had breakfast and off we went.
Beate's navigation wanted us to take roads we didn't know did still exist and might even have been dangerous to take with a horse and carriage so we decided to use to good old map next to the navigation :-)

We arrived in due time and after I had dragged all our gear towards the ring through the grass and different obstacles (like steps) we settled everything and waited for our turn.

Beate's Filon was the first of the Shelties to get into the ring, he won the Intermediate class and got his first Polish CAC. Than it was Trae's turn, this time he decided to cooperate just a little more than his last show so he stood still instead of making twists all the time but he still refused to show off his ears :-(
Trae luckily did win the championclass and also got his first Polish CAC. Bith Filon and Trae had to compete for the CACIB together with the open class winner and Filon did have the CACIB with Trae taking Reserve!

Than it was the girls turn and after a long wait I could finally go in with Flirt, she also did win the championclass and in the challenge even got the CACIB, this is her 3rd country and also her 3rd CACIB, still 8 months of waiting before enough time has passed for that last CACIB ;-))
In the challenge for Best of Breed Filon decided that this time he would not be the gentleman he was in Groningen when these two had to compete but decided it was time for him to take the BOB.
Congratulations Beate and ofcourse Filon's breeder Monika!
Filon's sister did win the juniorclass and now is a Polish Junior champion.

After the Shelties were finished it was Tony the Collie who had to go in and he also did win his class and got the CAC, the trip had not been for nothing: 4 dogs took 4 CAC's, 2 CACIB's and a Reserve CACIB, we couldn't have wished for more.
Thank you Beate for a wonderful time!

We had received lots of pictures from puppies sired by Trae and dogs we bred, will try to put them up on this homepage as soon as possible.

Howard is still enjoying himself in Finland, reports are that he is having the time of his life, thank you everybody that is taking care of him while he is in Finland and especially Pauliina for keeping eye on him :-)

16-05-2009
Some minor changes at several pages of our dogs and puppies with us or other breeders.

10-05-2009
This week we have been to Sweden to have Tempo mated again, she has been mated twice without any problem so now it's fingers crossed we will have babies this time.

Only just returned from Sweden and than it was showtime in Alkmaar (NL). Sandra had entered Spooky and asked me to show her Australian Shepherd (Skeldale Mrs Bojangles) for her. The Aussie took out Best Bitch (CAC) so Sandra´s day was already fine ;-)

Spooky did not want her nig friend get away with more than she did and although her showing was really bad and she did not want to coöperate at all she did win the Junior Class and with it her 1st Junior CAC.
We decided Sandra should take her in for the challenge for Best Bitch because she did not wanted anything with me anymore. Because of her behaviour we didn't think she had any chances against the older girls but with Sandra she was reasonably OK and much to our big surprise took out Best Bitch (her 1st CAC).
Congratulations Sandra on having a wonderful day!

Howard has left for Finland for around a month, hopefully he will be at home mid June. We received his first pictures and it looks like he is feeling fine and enjoying himself.

This past week we also had the news that Aspen (Ch.Dawnville Ashes In The Wind) passed her herding instinct test in Australia as did Trae's sire Ch.Scotsdream Premonition. Congratulations Liz, hope the new career of Noah will give you much entertainment ;-

04-05-2009
Yesterday we had the International show in Dortmund (D). Spooky made her showdebut and behaved just perfectly! She stood and showed her head off and obviously wenjoyed being the centre of attention.
She got Excellent as her qualification but unfortunately wasn't placed in the big junior bitch class, we are surely looking forward to her next shows :-)
Two of Trae's children were placed 3rd Exc. (Black Magic from Marmorea's Shelter) and 4th Exc. (Another Day in Heaven from Green Paradise) in this big class. CONGRATULATIONS!

We also had Tinsel with us who needed just one more VDH CC for her German VDH title. Tinsel wasn't in the mood for showing really but she nevertheless won the championclass (OK, it was only her and 1 other champion) and by doing so got her last needed VDH CC so she now is a German Club as well as a German VDH Champion.
Ofcourse we also brought Boots with us and she did win the open bitch class and in the challenge again got the CACIB and with it the VDH Europsieger title just like her mother did in 2004 :-)

As usual there were those around the ring that felt the necessity to display their unsportsmanlike behavior and felt we would all benefit from their opinion about the judges decision and have their say about our dogs.
Well, to those who felt this need we can honestly say: we do not care for a bit and will still follow our own goals and let the results of our dogs speak for themselves!!
More about the above will be on our Weblog later today or this week.

26-04-2009
Yesterday we had a show in Belgium, results can be found on our showresults page. A picture made of Tinsel at the show can be seen at our openingspage.
Last Friday we had the news that the 5 puppies of Howard and Nordic Blue from Marmorea's Shelter were all CEA clear.
We also received a picture of Dawnville Dragon Inside (Kenai). Below is one of these pictures, it might have taken him a while but he is finally getting there ;-) Thanks to his owners for the pictures!

19-04-2009
Sad news again ..... on Friday the 17th of April we had to say goodbuye to Kayla (Dawnville Enough And To Spare), totally unexpected and in such a short time after the loss of our beloved teddybear Mister Magoo of Blue Tails.
Kayla would have been 13 years of age by next month and looked to be in tiptop condition, not a grey hair in her face, she could still see as an eagle and hear as the best. She went on our daily walks enjoying the barking they are allowed to do there and chasing the other dogs and nothing looked like if something was wrong with her and than all of a sudden we had to make the decision to put her to sleep........


"Kayla" * 24-05-1996 † 17-04-2009
The cards above were send to us by Irene Kruiswijk (Left) and Joke Bloemhof (right), thank you ladies for the beautiful creations as a memory to Kayla

Keeping your old dogs brings us lots of joy and we love seeing the oldies getting around, they are so charming but unfortunately they also bring sadness and still we wouldn't want to miss having the oldies around.
We hope the rest of the year will not let us see loosing another of our dogs but we do have several more that are over 12 and 13 years of age and we keep in mind something might happen to them too but we just keep fingers crossed it will take a very long time before we get to that point.

The pas week we had news that Trae's babies at Marmorea's Shelter were all three clear for CEA, Trae still has a 100% score for Clear puppies :-)

From Australia we have received pictures of Aspen (Austr.Ch.Dawnville Ashes In The Wind - littersister of our Tinsel) with her daughter Scotsdream Careless Whispers. Whisper is a Baby in Show and Puppy in Show winner and a real Aspen 'Lookalike'.
Thank you Liz for the pictures of Aspen and Whisper!


Aspen (left) and daughter Whisper	Aspen in the ring - april 2009

Tempo started her season today, when all is well she will be mated in Sweden by the end of the month.

15-04-2009
Lots to report this time....
Perry's two babies at Norah's Nearness were both CEA clear, the male will stay with the breeder, we hope to put up some pictures of these two soon.

Puppienews again:
1 tricolour boy by Trae was born at kennel v.h.Luxemburgse Hof out of Nifty Blue Donna and at kennel Yindee 3 blue merle males, 2 tricolour males and 1 tricolour female were born, they are by Trae out of Yin-Dee Aura Twinkle Eye.

Another litter was born Easter Monday at kennel O'The Little Lodge, these are also Trae babies out of Dwnville Walks On Water. There are a blue male, a tri male and a tri female, a 4th puppy (tri male) unfortunately did not survive but the remaining 3 are doing well.
We also had a show on Easter Monday, Roger Bathurt from Auldlyn Shelties in England judged the breed and gave Flirt (Can.Ch.Newdawn What's Up) the Reserve CC / Reserve CACIB out of over 40 bitches entered! The results can also be found on our showresults page.

30-03-2009
Yesterday we had the International show in Luxemburg and we can not complain about the results :-)
Trae, Flirt and Boots were entered and Howard joined the team to support them, we should take him more often ;-))i
Boots won her 1st Luxemburg CAC and also won the CACIB, she now has enough CACIB's in enough countries but needs to wait untill the year has passed since she onw her 1st CACIB award.
Boots is qualified for Crufts 2010 with this win !!

Our wildman who misbehaved himself terribly in the ring surprised everyone by taking the champion class, he got the CAC and Res.CACIB making him a brand new LUXEMBOURG CHAMPION!!
As usual Flirt showed her little socks off but had to be content with a 2nd place this time, the judge thought her foreface was too long and asked immediately if she was American..... well, what should I have said ???

Star of the day (in our eyes) was Howard's blue merle daughter Hope of the Golden Fir, she won an enormous junior bitch class and became a Luxembourg Junior Champion at only her 2nd show in the junior class. She also beat Boots for Best Bitch who had earlier won the CACIB.
Hope is now also qualified for Crufts 2010 !! Congratulations to her breeder/owner Jenny Vandenhole

Trae's daughter Black Magic from Marmorea's Shelter was qualified Excellent in the large junior bitch class but unfortunately wasn't placed this time.

15-03-2009
Not a lot of things happened overhere but we have some news to report.
First of all we had the news that Trae's babies in the from a Beloved Home kennel were all 4 lear of CEA, this still keeps Trae's record on a 100% clear score.

Also the puppies of Howard at the v. Nindorf kennel were all 3 clear of CEA, one of the blue girls will stay with her breeder, we keep fingers crossed for her.
Below is her picture:

More good news: on the 23rd of February another litter sired by Trae was born at the home of his foster parents Addie en Thea de Jong ( from Marmorea's Shelter ) , they are a blue merle male with a little bit too much white, a blue merle girl and a lovely dark tricolour male. Pictures can be found on their website.

On the 6th of March also with Addie and Thea de Jong there was a littler born by Howard, these are 1 blue merle male, 2 blue merle girls and 2 tricolour males. These can also be found on the homepage of Marmorea Shelter.

Last Friday Addie and Thea than also gave me a lovely present which I will cherish the rest of my life.
They had a painting made of our orange teddybear Mister Magoo of Blue Tails whom we lost at the end of January. The painting is absolutely lovely and so real that is hard for me to look at it without getting tears in my eyes. As soon as we have it framed it will have it's very special place on the wall of our living room. for those interested to know what the painting looks like, here's a picture of it:

Not much to report from here, the coming weeks we have some shows planned and we still wait for Tempo to come in season so hopefully we have something to report from here very soon......

04-03-2009
Finally I have some time to update this homepage again :-)
The past week had brought us good news a couple of times. First of all we got a phonecall on Saturday to let us know that Perry has become a dad again.
At kennel of Norah's Nearness a blue merle son and a tricolour daughter of Perry were born on the 28th of February, the babies can be seen at their website.
We are very much interested to see how these babies will grow up and keep fingers crossed they will look as good as Perry daughter form his first litter in Germany (pictured right).

Furthermore, FANTASTIC news about Flirt: At the international dogshow in Groningen (Netherlands) Flirt made her debut in her new homecountry after several shows abroad.
Under judge Mrs.Marit Sunde from Norway Flirt won Best of Breed out of 44 Shelties! Than under judge Miroslav Redlicki from Poland Flirt also won FCI Group1 (a feat not often happening in The Netherlands, if I am right this is maybe the 3rd time in about 7-10 years time).
Finally she became 6th Best in Show (out of 10 FCI groups) under judge Mr.Luis Pinto Teixeira from Portugal!! We are really over the moon woth Flirt's achievement and once more thank Guy and Mark (Grandgables) for sharing this little girl with us. We hope to ad some more fine results to her showcareer but this one they can not take from us anymore :-)

Here's a picture of Flirt taken while she was in the ring for Best in Show.

21-02-2009
This past week we received new pictures of Howard's little daughter in Germany:

AngeRikas Celine Cassis Swingin' Spirit

Celine is 9 weeks old at the picture, CEA clear and will stay with her breeder to see how she develops. We keep all fingers crossed she will fulfill all expectations in whatever way.

Today we went to the show in Hoogstarten (B), the results can be found on the showresults page

07-02-2009
We now also have a weblog, you can find more every day news here as it is much easier to maintain than the website itself.
I have taken Scott's in memoriam card from the openingspage, it was hard to do so but he will never be forgotten. I still can't look at his pictures without getting tears in my eyes but it is getting better every day. Hopefully in a few weeks time his painting will be up on our wall, a friend of mine is having an oil painting made off him as she knows how much he meant to us.

27-01-2009
New showresults added and we have received new pictures of Trae's kids.

These 4 tricolour ladies were born and raised in The Hague at Pearls of Cial, we have also received pictures of them standing which we will put up on the homepage later this week.
I have been overthere to see these babies and found it impossible to pick one.

23-01-2009
On Thursday the 22nd of January we had to say goodbye to our big orange teddy bear Mister Magoo of Blue Tails.
Scott had not been well since about half a year but it was just minor problems and he still enjoyed our walks, running for hours and playing with the other dogs who still had so much respect for him. The last 3 weeks we even had his minor health problems under control untill that horrific Wednesday night when all of a sudden he had several small seizures and after that, during the night, suffered a heavy brain hemorrhage.

The results of this were huge and it was obvious our bear would not have any quality of life anymore and we decided to give him a dignified farewell and had to let him go.
Scott will be sadly missed, his natural dignity, his easy friendly temperament and his unending loyalty is something we will never forget.
Goodbye my friend, I am sure we will meet again one day.

In name of us all I would like tot hank everyone for the kind words by phone or e-mail. A big thank you for Joke Blomhof who made the card that can be found on our frontpage and Irene Kruiswijk who made the card below (text reads: Farewell doesn't exist, although I'm gone I will not leave you)

21-01-2009
New showresults and another wise lesson learned that you just can't rely on someone's word.....

14-01-2009
At the 12th of January Howard's babies at the van Nindorf kennel were born. There are 1 blue merle male and 2 blue merle females of which the male might still be available to the right home.
Today we also got news that Trae's children at Pearls of Cial are all 4 CEA clear, so far all Trae's offspring has been certified CEA clear.

This evening I also visited Trae's babies at Timeless Joy , a wild bunch of babies as we have seen before from Trae ;-)
They were looking just lovely and we wish their new owners lots of fun with them....

11-01-2009
First and foremost we would like to wish everybody a fantastic New Year with hopefully lots of successes but above all good health.

At the 1st of January the year started with the brth of Howard's first litter for this year, in Belgium at kennel from Jolie's Garden a litter of 2 tricoliur males, 1 sable male and 1 tricolour bitch was born, below a pictures of these 4 healthy babies.

A day later these babies were followed by Trae's first litter for this year: 4 little girls were born at from the Mary Rose Shelties, they are 2 tri's and 2 sables with lovely white collars.
Below a pictures of both of the litters:


from Jolies Garden	from the Mary Rose

At the 9th of January we had the news that Trae's litter at Timeless Joy was examined for CEA and all 4 them declared clear of any hereditary eye disease. So far all Trae's kids has been CEA clear.

We also placed a new pictures of Boots at our openingspage, this picture can also be found on Boots' own page. We also placed a new pictures of Boots' mother Tempo at her own site, it has been a while since we updated her pictures and now that she is looking so lovely we thought it about time to try for a more recent picture of her.


Happy Master's Man With Tan	Happy Master's My Kind of Guy	Happy Master's My Lucky Charm

Than there's the 6 babies of Trae and Yindee Aura Twinkle Eye. They are almost 8 weeks of age on this picture and all of them are clear for CEA. The tricolour dog (3rd from the right) will stay with his breeders Petra en Har Willems.


Left shows Aidan at 12 weeks of age and on the right he is almost 4 months of age. Aidan is bred and owned by Harry en Rita Koopstra.

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