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An open show to report from way down south at Plymouth & District Canine Society. The Best In Show judge was Rachel Pearce, Breed and Toy Group was Julie Guvercin. Kirsty Wells and Amanda Brown had a successful day with Metamorphic Vista taking BOB and TGP3. Reserve BOB and Best Reserve Best of Breed in…
The Papillon (Butterfly) Dog Club held their Open show at St. Mary’s Church Hall in Solihull. For this show breed specialist Rosemary Hobson was taking the helm to go over the good entry of 113/ 80 dogs entered. Unfortunately we could not be there due to the Eukanuba Champion Stakes being held on the same…
Manchester Championship Show at Stafford was upon us and as always the committee had given 100% commitment to ensure the show looked spot on. An accident on the M6 delayed judging by 15 minutes as the queues for reaching the showground stretched back a considerable way, so it was a stop and start procedure. This…
The first Championship Show of the New Year held at the East of England Showground is Boston Championship Show. The committee always work so hard to get all areas looking spick and span and from the pictures I saw on Facebook this year was no exception. No news has come through of the goings on,…
Happy New Year to everyone and may your dreams, health and happiness be everything you are wishing for. The New Year is always exciting looking at what might be ahead in the months to come. 2019 seemed to have been here and gone in a flash, where on earth did that year disappear to? For…
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and are now quietly relaxing and recovering after the last few days. May the New Year bring all the breed note readers joy, health and happiness. Thank you to everyone in Our Dogs for their continuous support and of course the readers of the breed notes, look forward to…
The last Championship show of the year has come and gone with many exhibitors unfortunately not being able get to attend, including us. Some Northern exhibitors awoke to a generous covering of snow as a early Christmas present, so sense prevailed and they either said, “ not today, thank you “ or got so far…
The South Of England Papillon hosted the joint breed clubs Championship show with Joe Magri (Rozamie) taking the helm for judging the butterfly and moths for the show. Unfortunately no full results have come through from the club but the principal winners were as follows BCC / BIS Kirsty Miller and Evan Ryan’s Ch Feorlig,…
At the Papillon Club Open Show Pat Munn kindly messaged me details that the club held a minutes silence and had a lovely picture of Cathy Urquhart placed behind the judges table. I am sure Cathy watched every moment of the proceedings for the day. It must have been comforting to many folk feeling her…
The Papillon (Butterfly) Club held their Christmas Open Show at St Mary’s Hall in Solihull. I am sure the club were delighted with the super entry of 78 dogs making 97 entries. Chris Headley had been busy baking and beautifully decorating some Christmas cakes for silent auctions. An extra surprise in store with Christmas hampers I…
What a very sad time for the Papillon fraternity with the passing of Cathy Urquhart (Blackpark). Cathy passed away peacefully at home on the 30th October aged 69 years. My sincere condolences and thoughts go to Gordon, family and friends. Cathy will be very much missed at the shows both in the Papillon and Maltese…
A cold Builth greeted us all for the double showing weekend at this venue for the South Wales Papillon Club Championship Show on the Saturday and SWKA Championship Show on the Sunday. This year we were in the annexe not the goat shed. I think we would have turned into blocks of ice in the…