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Posted on: November 2nd, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS I start with an apology to Lillian Rumsey and Sarah Stonton, as I left out the winner of the Progeny Class in my results of the Club Ch show in last week’s notes. The winner was Lillian’s Kata Syndattir Av Fjeldvidda At Wheatshade ( Imp Nld)(Darcy),helping her win the class were Sue & […]
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Posted on: October 25th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS The club held its second Ch show of the year on 19th October at Bearley Village Hall Strafford upon Avon. This was a standalone event and a new venue for the club show, as it is more central for most exhibitors than the previous venue, with exhibitors spread all over the country. It […]
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Posted on: October 19th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Pastoral Day at the 86th South Wales Kennel Association Ch show was Friday 11th October. When I first came into the breed some 30 plus years ago, the show was held at the David Broome Event Centre Chepstow in July,then when the centre was upgraded the show could no longer be held there […]
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Posted on: October 11th, 2024
Norwegian Buhunds In the late 1980’s Wally Conron of the Royal Guide Association of Australia mated a Labrador with a Standard Poodle, to help a blind woman whose husband had allergies to dog hair. The dog Sutan was a very good guide dog with the working attributes of the Labrador and the intelligence, agility and […]
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Posted on: October 4th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS I am very pleased to say that this year the club is producing a calendar with photos that members sent into the forum, these were then voted on and the top photos will appear in the calendar. I appreciate that not everyone is on Facebook, so if you want a calendar, please contact […]
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Posted on: September 27th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS The year marches on it will soon be Christmas! No Ch show with classes for the breed until South Wales which again sadly is a Friday, hopefully this means that there will be more Pastoral days on a Saturday next year. Wealdstone & Northolt Canine Society’s Top Event was held in the late […]
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Posted on: September 20th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS The Pastoral, Terrier and Working Groups were on Friday 13th September which was the first day of Darlington 3-day Ch show held on Ripon racecourse. After the awful winds of Driffield and the torrential rain of Richmond the weather had calmed down, and had made way for a much colder but drier conditions […]
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Posted on: September 13th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Sunday 1st September saw Marie Corin and Adam Camm make an early start to head off to the Forest Edge Arena in Norfolk, for the Sheringham & District Premier Open show .Sarah Bothwell was the Buhund judge and she awarded BOB to Marie and Adam’s homebred Mazads Nom de Plume(Dexter), Marie said he […]
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Posted on: September 6th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Bank Holiday weekend was a very busy one for several Buhunds and their owners. On a rather wet Saturday morning August 24th ,it was North Devon Canine Association Premier Open Show held at The Matford Centre in Exeter, luckily the Buhunds were scheduled to be inside, the judge was Diane Stewart-Ritchie who gives […]
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Posted on: August 30th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS For some time, the KC has offered breed celebration lunches, those interested in a breed attend a lunch which includes a tour of the Photo and Book Library and the Gallery, during which they try to show those attending anything they have on your breed. We had been planning to do this just […]
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Posted on: August 23rd, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Terrier Working & Pastoral Day at Bournemouth Ch show was Monday 12th August which turned out to be the hottest days of the year so far, with temperatures in that part of the country well over 30degreess. I think it is the only Ch show now to have a Monday as a show […]
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Posted on: August 16th, 2024
Cancer as we know is the biggest killers of dogs worldwide, it does not matter if they are pedigree or cross bred. There are so many types of cancer affecting dogs, some can be treated, and the dog will continue to lead a happy life for some time after treatment, others are more difficult to […]
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Posted on: August 9th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS When I first came into the breed Leeds Ch show had Buhund classes, but over the years with falling entries especially when Pastoral day was on a Monday the breed was taken off. South Wales Ch show then lost its usual venue and moved to Builth Wells in October, leaving a gap in […]
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Posted on: August 2nd, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS As I sit here writing these notes, I can’t believe we are almost into August, where is the year going. Now the better weather has arrived, just hope we do not have the intense heat some of the countries in Europe are having. Seems to be either wet and cold or hot, Time […]
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Posted on: July 26th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Evesham & District Canine Society Premier Open show was held on 14th July the day after Working and Pastoral Breeds Ch show and on the same venue, the Three Counties Showground. Thoughts of an open show in the area were first suggested in 1974 but the idea was not popular with everyone, so […]
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Posted on: July 19th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS As I said in last week’s notes the club held its open show on 7th July in conjunction with Boston Ch show which was held for the first time on the Rutland Show ground, on the dates previously used by East of England Ch show. The Boston classes for the breed were due […]
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Posted on: July 12th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS We have so often talked about the need for socialising young puppies giving them a variety of experiences, but not many would have sailed as one of those experiences. Lillian Rumsey’s Darcy (Kata Syndattir Av Fjeldvidda At Wheatshade (Imp Ned) had a litter in March, and Lillian has kept one of the puppies, […]
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Posted on: July 5th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS We should be used to the fact by now that in the UK summer weather can change very quickly. After weeks of rain and cold weather that on occasions meant we needed the heating on indoors, it started to heat up on Sat 22nd June, but of course Time and I still managed […]
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Posted on: June 29th, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS One of the very few positive things to come out of the pandemic was the use of Zoom and Teams as a way of people communicating with each other, without travelling long distances. For some time now we have been using this method for committee meetings, and on Thursday evening 20th June we […]
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Posted on: June 21st, 2024
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS This spring we have had several litters of puppies born which has been great, one of these was a litter born to Lillian Rumsey’s Kata Syndattir Av Fjeldvidda At Wheratshade (Imp NLD)aka Darcy, by Sarah Stonton’s Ch Arnscroft In Di Ana Jack (L7 Ex RL2) and Sarah could not wait to have one […]
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