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We thoroughly enjoyed Maggie’s Training Day last Saturday, at the village hall in Worplesdon, near Guildford, and when I spoke to her on the telephone today, she told me that she had had several appreciative calls herself. The C ...

I feel just like Cinderella at the moment, shall I go to the Ball with Acorn for the Contest of Champions? What the dickens will I wear? Posh frock with trainers (so I can run)? It is always exciting to be invited to these things ...

The postponed committee meeting was finally held on Sunday, at our house here in Herefordshire, and we were delighted that Anne brought with her the 12 week old black bitch puppy that she has kept from her recent litter. Her name ...

2012 promises to be an exciting year for three reasons! The Olympic Games, the Queen’s Jubilee, and our own IHF Conference and Show Weekend in October. There is lots to look forward to, then, and the IHF weekend to plan for. Th ...

A friend of a friend who is very successful in obedience has recently had a litter of puppies, tailored particularly for obedience – part Beardie and part Border collie. The puppies are now two weeks old and to assist their deve ...

Completely out of the blue Acorn started coughing! Where on earth do the bugs come from? Thank goodness she is very well in herself, but that obvious cough and little piles of white foam around the kitchen floor leave me with no ...

We soon won’t have to leave the comfort of our own homes to purchase just about anything as a result of the Internet and all it offers. Being of an age where IT is like a foreign language it has taken me longer than some folk t ...

Somehow I can’t imagine the Sunday of Discover Dogs, at Earls Court, not being Remembrance Sunday. It always amazes me that it can go so quiet, so quickly, seconds before Big Ben chimes out 11.00 o’clock, a very moving experi ...

We received an interesting letter this week from Frank Komatar in Utah in the USA, who is an avid hunter, as they often are in the wilder parts of America, together with a picture of his 11 year old Hovawart that he got when she w ...

After speaking to Julie this evening, I learnt of the death of Anne Travis’s Mother which came as a shock to the family as she had recovered from a bout of cellulitis and was about to leave hospital when she had a heart attack a ...

HOVAWART BREED NOTES I was quite surprised to receive a telephone call from the Kennel Club’s Accedited …whoops, Assured Breeder Scheme last week, asking for a convenient day to visit us. It seemed only a couple of years sin ...

It’s so easy to be wise, after the event! For a couple of years now we have been meaning to have a bitch speyed and somehow have never got around to it, resulting in a nearly 9 year old suffering a pyometra with all its complic ...

Well, it is all over for another year. We were very lucky with the weather. Apparently, at home, 50 miles south of the venue, it was a swelteringly hot day, with non-stop sunshine, but at Oswestry, it was dull and overcast, with ...

As promised, the final draw of the “100” Club was made today at the Club Show. Bearing in mind money is involved, perhaps from the winners’ point of view it was as well neither was actually in attendance, although there is n ...

The club sponsors classes at the Bedford & District Canine Society Open Show, at Moulton Agricultural College, so we felt a certain obligation to enter. After consulting the schedule we realized that it would be an early start (un ...

Firstly, some show news. There were very few entries at Darlington, and even fewer attendees, but it was still better than last year, when nobody showed up at all. I have to say I fear for the future of our classes there. This yea ...

I know that summer sunshine is wonderful, but walking dogs, particularly those with coats designed to withstand an eastern German winter, which I know from experience can have temperatures of minus 15 for weeks on end, on hot stic ...

The holidays are over, and everything is slowly getting back to normal. The house is quiet, and the dogs are all resting in normal places, the necessity for hiding themselves away has passed. Gill Stockton has returned from the IF ...

As we have been away for a few days, this month’s draw, the penultimate one for this year, took place today at the Weobley Post Office. Anne Tootell drew out the numbers, as follows:- 1st for number 24 for Clare Percival at ...

HOVAWART Breed Notes 16/08/11 Last week I had a flat tyre. I was on my way to meet with Elinor Anderson, for us both to go training together, she for obedience with her two new non-hovawarts, and I with Acorn for trials practice ...