MY BEST FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS.

When I was a little girl in my native country Russia, I always wanted to have a Rough Collie. The grace and elegance of Rough Collies made me feel fascinated by the breed. Rough Collie's beautiful head held high, gracious body with long fur and bushy tail as well as fast, elegant running and clever mind always attracted me to own a Rough Collie.

The circumstances in my life only allowed me to have a chance of purchasing a blue merle female rough collie, Eilroy Wisper Willow, [shown above] in November 2007 from Pat and Les Latham. I am very thankful to Pat and Les for breeding such a wonderful puppy! I am very happy and very proud of my little girl, who was named Lassie by my two little boys.

Lassie is a very intelligent dog and a devoted friend. She is with me everywhere I go and whatever I do: doing office work, gardening, cleaning the house, going for a jog. Lassie understands me with half spoken word, she is my 'right hand'. my best friend and companion. Lassie is brilliant with children and our pet cat Marmalade.

In year 2009 I decided to have more Rough Collies and purchased 2 more dogs: one tri-colour male, Camanna Crusader [Charlie] and one sable female, Triburle Heart and Soul [Holly] from Christine and Noel Collins. The two puppies have been growing up together like brother and sister, playing games, jumping about and running after each other in the garden.

Charlie is a very elegant, gentle and handsome dog. He is so gracious when he is running ..

Our Holly, we call her 'Princess', is very cute and funny. She initiates chasing games with her brother Charlie by picking up a small ball and running towards Charlie, or by crushing into Charlie on purpose to make him run after her. It is such fun to watch them play!

Holly is mad about our cat Marmalade. She loves him to bits! When Holly sees Marmalade, her tail starts wagging very very fast! Holly is so happy to see the ginger cat she does not want to leave him alone until Marmalade plays 'catch and seek' with her.

I would like to say a big thankyou to Christine and Noel, who have bred such a wonderful sable Princess.

I am also grateful to Christine and Noel for helping me to mate my older girl Lassie with Choco Pops du Domaine des Emeraudes at Triburle JW. The mating has been a success! Lassie has had her first litter of two gorgeous male puppies, who are now the first generation of my kennel name KRASNOV. See PUPPY ADVERT -ready 3 November

In ancient Russian language 'Kras' means 'beautiful'. By choosing this name as a breeder I wanted to emphasis the beauty and elegance of this wonderful breed ROUGH COLLIE.

My plans for the future now are to take my beautiful dogs to the shows..Fingers crossed!

Natalia Croxton

01782 612646

Staffordshire, UK

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