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My
involvement in dogs goes back to 1959 when our family bought our first
dog, a german shepherd. We bred and
showed german shepherds for 10 years before
we imported our first pembroke corgi from England.
His name was
Yorken Gallant Knight and was of Blands and Kathla breeding.
We had a very successful start with our new breed as our first corgi
ended up as Dog of the Year all breeds in Norway 1968. Since then, out
of 266 puppies we have made
up 94 homebred national champions, and 21 international champions.
Also most of our imported dogs have become champions. Since the
Norwegian Welsh Corgi Klubb started the Corgi of the Year competition in
1974, our dogs either homebred or imports have
won the title 21 times with 15 different dogs.
Our most famous dog, Int.Ch. Siggens’s Hi Fi, who was Dog of the Year
all breeds in Norway in 1983, was the first imported pembroke ever to
win a CC in England. During his stay he won a total of 2 CC’s and 4
res CC’s before we brought him home as a pensioner.
We have bred numerous group
and best in show winners. At the Norwegian
Kennel Klub’s 100 years jubilee show with 3500 dogs entered, dogs from
our kennel won the herding group and was 3rd BIS, best
breeders group in show, and best veteran in show.
In 2001 we were showing in England for the first time in 20 years, and
won the dog CC at Windsor with a homebred bobtail male Multi ch
Siggen’s Oberon. At the World show In Dortmund both world Winners and
two other class winners were either bred by us or by one of our dogs.
In
my younger days I used to handle many different breeds for other people.
In addition to making up champions in my two main breeds, I have made up
champions in poodles, boxers, rottweilers, doberman, keeshonds,
whippets, golden retrievers, labrador retrievers.
I have held all different positions in the
Norsk Welsh Corgi Klubb, and have received the clubs honorary award “the
docked tails order” for my work.I have served on the Norwegian Kennel
Klub general committee from 1996 – 2006. |
