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OUR YEAR (2006)
And what a busy one!!

Well what a year, from having Liz mated in Ireland just before Christmas to Cal (Ir Sh Ch Cahean Ingleside) and spending time with Emma O'Donnell (Cal's mum) and her parents Shauna and Mark, plus her Auntie Teri, (Shauna’s sister) who very kindly let us stay again with her. This family are second to none, and we wish Emma lots of luck in the future with her dogs and just wish there were more young people with as much drive and enthusiasm as Emma has.
Then, while we were there Teasel came in season and was mated on Boxing Day to Paddy (Radicott Waterbug), thanks to Dave and Lin for letting us use their lovely boy again.
 

New Year's eve and Melvyn and I were reading through the Irish Water Spaniel Club of America magazine and there was a picture of two puppies sat on steps, one of those pups was Bentley. We started the ball rolling that evening to bring Bentley to England, thank you to Larry and Ginny Spencer for letting us have this wonderful boy. More on Bentley later.

February 14th and Liz gave birth to 10 puppies, and on the 28th Teasel had 8 puppies. This was a very busy time for us and the next couple of months were hard work, but very rewarding caring for 18 babies and their mums. It also was enjoyable meeting our friends and new puppy owners, who came two or three times to see the litters.




 

New boy in town "Bentley"

April 29th and 30th we attended the Beta Gundog Weekend at Cirencester Park, representing the breed in their gundog tent. 

 

                                                                                                      Teasel with pups and Liz with pups


 June 17th and 18th saw us attending the Irish Festival at Shane Castle Co Antrim. The Irish Water Spaniel Club of Ireland put on a Gundog Working Test, so Pauline and Ian Probert, Dave Gresty and Lyn Tombs and ourselves all met up at the airport hotel, as Dave and Lyn flew in, with Pauline and Ian bringing Dave & Lyn's dog Paddy with them on the ferry, which is the way we travelled. It was a fun packed weekend.
Liz won The Coleenville Cup for the highest placed IWS in the preliminary class, at Shane's Castle, Antrim Ireland. Run by the Irish Water Spaniel Club in Ireland. On our trip to the Irish Festival, at Shane's Castle in Antrim. The Irish Water Spaniel Club (of Ireland) ran the working tests, and Teasel won the Cecil Fry Cup for being the highest placed IWS in the intermediate Class.

On July 15th we met Angelika Blom and her partner PA. Angelika is a very good friend of Mats Sjorgen who bred Liz, and is also Secretary of the Swedish IWS club. We met them at the IWSA Championship show, then they came home with us for the weekend, all we can say about them is what a great couple and we enjoyed our weekend with them.

July 20th YES OUR fortnight holiday starts, with driving down to Chillington Hall for the Sporting Irish Water Spaniel Club breed confined gundog working tests' weekend.

July 21st   The long awaited arrival of Bentley. We met Ginny Spencer at Heathrow Airport on a very hot day and had to wait a few hours for Bentley to come out of the animal centre, but boy was it worth it, we knew from photos that he was a very nice boy and handsome, but we have a lot more dog, he is absolutely fantastic and so is his breeder Ginny, what an amazing lady, she put so much knowledge and time into Bentley's litter.

July 22nd and 23rd Water Test and Gundog Working Test, we ran Teasel, Liz, and Ellie on both days, and had a wonderful social time with good friends in the evening.

                Denise with Liz at Chillington
Melvyn and Ellie competing at Chillington Hall

 

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