SOME MORE INFORMAL PICTURES OF CANIGOUS PAST AND PRESENT:
Goldie
Here are a couple of pictures of heart-throb Goldie (Sh Ch Canigou Sun Tanned), one with her ears wet from the garden. Good-looking and sweet-natured, she took her third CC at South Wales and Monmouth Ch Sh in March 2016 to become Tricia’s 18th show champion.
Christmas Cockers
Left – Billy II, owned by Meria, Mark,Chloe and Amber
Below – Billy with Meria on Haughmond Hill
Right – Cara the Christmas Elf
Below – Cara in the frost
Summer Pardoe, matching the tree decorations perfectly.
Christmas greetings from Petra Kusch in Germany
Conker (AKA Tommy – left) and Cara
(right), proud owners of Rob and Jim.
Rocky around the Christmas Tree (ouch!)
Crufts 2011
Here are some informal pictures from Crufts 2011. There are more photos on the Crufts page.
Happy (Sh Ch Canigou Happy Ending) (left) in the dog challenge.
Lettuce (Sh Ch Canigou Love on the Rocks) (left) in the Open Bitch class.
Lettuce on the table in the Open Bitch class, while Sandy Platt and Sue Kettle wait to be seen.
Thanks to Magdalena Malkowiak for the three Verusdiligo photos
A successful day – photo by Steve!
Rocky (CANIGOU ROCK STAR)
With Rosa
Left – Rocky with Poppet, who now lives with Cath and Mark Edwards.
Above – Rocky puts an arm round Poppet
Rocky and Rosa playing in the snow on Christmas morning.
Boxers
Tricia and her good friend Joy Malcolm – the only survivors after ten hours at a Boxer show.
Our first Boxer Shadow on the
beach on the Isle of Jura – 1990.
Vesper (Skelder Silent Prayer) dreaming of glory beside
the Keddell Trophy (Crufts BIS) in our garden in 1996.
Glory Days
Albert – WELKS 1996
LKA – some time in the 80’s, to judge from the styles!
Otis (L) and Speedy (R) – dog and bitch CC at the Cocker Club 2006
Young Handlers
Start ‘Em Young! Grandson Tom Bellamy,
now a National Hunt jockey!
Straight Up and Down Please, Tom!
Speedy with Juan Doval – a
young handler of the future?
Babies
Above and below. Anita and Mario Sedzicka’s Lilly (Int Ch Ivette Quattropedes – Xilander kennel) and her puppies by Mikey (Sh Ch Canigou Rocket Science). Anita and Mario brought Lilly from Poland for the mating and this is the happy result. Everybody say ‘Ahhh!’
Above – Two escapees from a litter by Sh Ch Canigou Rock Star x Anita and Mario Sedzicka’s Int Ch Eza Hezjoda (Zuza) (Xilander kennel – Poland).
Puppies in the nest. They are by Sh Ch Canigou Rock Star, out of Karin and Peter Gerhard’s Snoopy’s Double Sweet (Germany). That’s the mother’s nose, top right.
Life’s very tiring for a little puppy…..
… and messy too!
Now Showing In Europe
These pictures of Canigou Tails She Wins (Blue), now owned and loved by Katerina Papastefanou in Athens, were taken a year or so ago. Blue is a daughter of Sh Ch Canigou Classical (Lulah). She has been shown all over Europe and is a Greek show champion.
Blue has now taken on a new role. Here she is with her puppies by Sh Ch Charbonnel Swedish Design, born in late May 2010.
Below are a couple of pictures of Lexi (Canigou Paperback Writer) who is now being shown by Lena and Kenneth Norlund in Sweden.
Here’s Lexi at seven months.
This handsome chap is Coda, litter-brother to Lexi (above), Sh Ch Canigou Happy Ending and Sh Ch Canigou Storytime at Withiflor, the top-winning golden bitch in the breed. He now lives with Jess Evans in Shrewsbury.
Canigou Grace and Favour (Betty) was sent out to Norway in whelp to Sh Ch Canigou Rock Star. Here she is, heavy in whelp and looking very contented for her new owner Kristin Handeland, before she produced a litter of 4 blacks and 4 black and tans.
Below are pictures of a couple of pups from Betty’s second litter; Claudette Yes Indeed (Red) and Claudette Yes Please (Black).
Albert (Sh Ch Canigou Cambrai)
Albert in Old Age