Puppies Liz's puppy pictures|Teasel's puppy pictures
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October 2008
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September 2008
Bentley in action winning the Sporting Irish Water Spaniel Club, breed confined working test, July 2008.
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At the time of writing (May,2006) we have
just homed all 18 puppies from both Liz and Teasel who both gave birth in
February 2006. The whole point of importing Liz from Sweden was to help to increase the dangerously small gene pool within the Irish Water Spaniel breed in the UK. To this end, Liz's pedigree has a number of Scandinavian dogs and a considerable number of American dogs in it. We decided to mate her to Irish Show Champion Cahean Ingleside (Cal),a Northern Irish dog with good solid Irish working lines (see pictures). Although he is not a working dog his pedigree suggests that any offspring are likely to be good workers. Anyone watching the BBC's 2005 coverage of Crufts will have seen Cal and his young owner, Emma O'Donnell who were making their first Crufts appearances. In order to preserve these lines in the UK and enhance the gene pool, we are collaborating with three other UK working kennels including: Fendrake in East Anglia and Hiberna in the Midlands. Collectively, we now hold 4 of the offspring from this mating to ensure they are worked and are available to augment the working lines in the future. Liz was whisked off to Ireland on 14th December 2005 and mated with Cal on the 15th and gave birth on 14 February 2006 to her first litter,10 puppies, seven dogs and three bitches. They all went to their new homes in April.
Irish Show Champion Cahean Ingleside (Cal) Bayrakki's Parlemo at Kirkmarsh (Liz)
See litter pictures
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Due to popular demand and
the excellent progress of a number of the puppies from our first litter
out of Teasel, by Radicott Waterbug (Paddy McGinty), including our own
Ellie, we decided to have a repeat mating and these puppies too have now
gone to their new homes.
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Radicott Waterbug (Paddy), April 2005, Shooting
Gazette
Minor Breeds Retriever Gundog working test, Catton Park. Photo:© Nick Ridley |
Kirkmarsh Valley Mist
(Teasel), August 2005, United Retriever Club Interbreed team working
test, Hope Agricultural show.
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Teasel was mated to Paddy on Christmas day, 2005. The mating has been successful and her litter of 8 pups was born on 27 February 2006, 3 bitches and 5 dogs.
See litter pictures If you're looking for a puppy there are a number of sources to help you locate a litter: Firstly, the
Kennnel Club
web site lists litters under its breeds register.
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