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Sue Scully judged us at the National Working & Pastoral Open Show at the Sports Connection, Coventry last Saturday, February 20th. It was her first judging appointment and she had a super entry with only two absentees. BoB went t ...

"The KC have already reacted (I can't take credit for it, regretfully), and we are now moved to Ring 19, after Pyrenean Mountain Dogs (84 entries), Pyrenean Sheepdogs (23) and Komondors (10), which should mean a start by about lun ...

Good news and bad news this week, wonderful entry for Crufts, 53 Hovawarts – if everybody turns up it should prove to me one of the best entries ever. I have a horrible feeling though there will be quite a bit of hanging around, ...

I had a nice telephone conversation this week with Ian Winfield, a gentleman who owns a Hovawart called Darcie, aged 14, and still full of life. She no longer tackles long walks, but is very much up for the four short ones that ar ...

At the moment of writing these breed notes, Herefordshire is a winter wonderland, and I have walked and walked the dogs for miles, enjoying the views of snowy hills, and snow laden trees. What a beautiful county Herefordshire is, ...

Firstly, let me hope that you all had a merry but peaceful Christmas, and wish you all you would wish yourselves for the New Year. It is not the easiest time of year to have an active breed like ours, but don’t they love the sno ...

I try not to be too excited about our achievements in these notes, but on Sunday I was very proud of Whistle, who, in spite of my “help”, managed a qualifying round, admittedly behind five better scores, in open UD. This was ...

We went up to Earls’ Court yesterday (Sunday) to man the Hovawart stand, and our day there started by us walking in with an extraordinary pink and yellow spotted (originally white) standard poodle, raising money for “Children ...

HCGB Open Show 4.10.09 Results Best in Show----------------------54-------------------Pines Hapi Reserve Best in Show-----------30-------------------Finya Palacowe Pieknosci Best Opposite Sex-------------- 30----------------- ...

We have just returned from a weekend in Edinburgh, where I had the privilege of judging the breed at the Working & Pastoral Breeds Association of Scotland’s Championship Show. My critique will appear elsewhere, but I would like ...

I enjoyed judging Hovawarts at the Royal Highland Showground Ingliston, Edinburgh on the 8th November, and would like to thank the Secretary who found me a vacant ring to prevent a long delay. The entry was good and it was nice ...

Acorn went to her first show last week. I think she is possibly the most difficult puppy I’ve had, as she is forever bouncing about, absolutely sure she knows every dog and every person we pass (or try to!) The training routines ...

AFTER THE SHOW Well, it’s come and gone again for another year. The HC of GB Open Show, with Limited Obedience…..sometimes, the irony blows you away…..duly took place at Oswestry on Sunday, and we were blessed with really ...

Good news from the continent this week, as Maggie Spencer went to the Maastricht show at the weekend, and DJ was not only BOB , with CAC and CACIB , under judges Ms E Haapaniemi, from Finland, a group judge here this summer, but a ...

This weekend saw a larger than usual entry of hovawarts at Richmond for Dan Ericsson from Sweden, 27 dogs entered. We got our timing wrong, and missed the veteran class with Orchid, the first class, but at least this year the weat ...

A couple of results from recent shows have been ‘phoned through this weekend. Firstly, Maggie and Lloyd Spencer got BoB with DJ and BoS with Gracie at the Stichting Hondententoostelling Show in Rotterdam. The judge was Dr. C.Bi ...

Last Saturday was the Welsh KC show at Builth Wells, where we have breed classes. This year’s judge was the very well known all-rounder, Liz Cartledge, and we were to be her 4th breed of the day. She had a very large entry of ...

Monday this week saw us heading to the southwest for the Paignton Show at Exeter. I must say that the signposts we passed to get there brought back many childhood memories of holidays in Devon and Cornwall, and the weather reminde ...

The response to the questionnaire sent out by the club with the recent newsletter and Year Book was disappointing to say the least! Three replies were received, so the club will not be putting on a variety of events this coming y ...

We were lucky on Saturday and had a completely dry day in Malvern for the National Working and Pastoral Breeds, one of my favourite venues. It was rather a low entry, but there were only a couple of absentees. Traffic as usual at ...