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Like most people I fell in love with Lassie as a young child and was desperate for a collie of my own, but I never got one as my Mum worked. For some reason she bought me a tortoise - I still haven't figured that one out!! When I was about 12 I had gone, on my own, to the local kennels and fell in love with a little brown dog called Rusty and after staging an Oscar winning performance I was given the money to go and get him. I went on my own [how times have changed] handed over the money and he was mine. He lived to 16 and when I married Hughie he said the marriage vows should have been changed to "Do you take this woman and her dog?". Little did we know then we would end up with so many and start showing. All through our marriage we have had a Rough Collie and a Sheltie. We lost our Collie just as our daughter got married and our son went off to University. The house was so empty and I think I was suffering from empty nest syndrome. I bought a Rough Collie and the person I bought it from showed and I thought..hey I can do that. We soon realised that he was not good enough for showing but my daughter has him and both my grandchildren have learnt to walk hanging on his back! Our affix, Benuasal, is Gaelic for Lady, which was the name of our first collie. We have bought a few dogs who have turned out not to be show material but we are lucky enough to have a house in the country and they are still with us. Our new hopefuls are Roanburn Cherry Cake and Roanburn Sugar Snap. Sugar Snap is only 9 months old and has been placed well at Championship and Open Shows. Last year Cherry Cake had five firsts on the Irish Circuit and we are hoping this success continues. ROANBURN CHERRY CAKE AT BENUASAL
ROANBURN SUGAR SNAP AT BENUASAL
We have made some really good friends since we started showing and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them, Dave and Edith Thomson and Jim Mill have been so very good to me as Hughie works away a lot. Also Pat Brooker provides a great Bed and Breakfast when I am down her way and I would also like to thank Gwen and George Hartley for letting us have these two lovely girls and for all their help with grooming. My Mum, who at 77, travels with me to so many shows and if she is not there she is probably watching the dogs at home. We also appreciate Hughies Mam and Dad who not only looked after the dogs to let me go to Singapore also gave us our affix as it is Hughies Dad who speaks gaelic. Well that is it for now, hopefully I will update soon and have some good results for this years shows. SHOW
NEWS:
Cherry Cake returned to the ring after a successful puppy career,,,,and
won 1st Special Yearling and 1st Graduate at Ayrshire Colie Club
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