Dialynne Delight at Canowindra

pedigree

Pippin came to Canowindra in August 2003, a present from our youngest son who had decided to act on my lifetime ambition to own a beagle. My grateful thanks go to all at Dialynne for this treasured girl.

Pippin was a beauty, the prettiest puppy I’d ever seen, with long dark ears that seemed to hang down to her knees.  I had read ‘Beagles as Pets’ (obtainable from Beagle Welfare) and was determined to do things ‘right’ so I enrolled her for obedience classes.  I thought she was doing quite well but... People would come up to me and say, ‘Do you show her?’  Well they say ‘fools rush in etc…’ so I entered her for a show, knowing I might add, absolutely zilch about showing a dog.  The judge was Mrs. Beryl Conway; the show was The West of England Ladies Kennel Society Championship Dog Show, better known as WELKS.  We did not distinguish ourselves at all and we have the photos to prove it!  Pip, however must have made an impression on the judge, but more of that later. 

People were very kind to a couple of know-nothings joining in, somebody lent me a show lead, another gave me a ring-clip, now do you get the picture? Ha ha.  They all said ‘Go to ring-craft!’ So we did. Show followed show and we struggled, or should I say I struggled as Pip loved the social occasion but my amateurish handling just made her fidget.  Then I found out about free showing.  I stopped trying to put Pip into position and just encouraged her to stand alert.  I also asked Christine Lewis (Fallowfield Beagles) if she minded me filming her in the ring with Ch Fallowfield Douglas.  I am really grateful for this as I have watched that film over and over and Pip now free-shows without much apparent effort.

In July 2005, just after her second birthday Pip took 2nd in Graduate Bitch under judge, Jeff Horswell at South Wales Kennel Associations Championship Show, Suddenly she was up there with the big girls.  In October I entered her in Post Graduate Bitch at the Driffield Championship Show under Judge, Zena Thorn-Andrews.  She came first and qualified for Crufts®. Unfortunately she was unable to compete in 2006 due to her breeder, Dianna Spavin being the breed judge.  She did however go to Crufts® on the first and second day to entertain the people visiting “Discover Dogs”.  She wasn’t asked to entertain, just be there, but Pip is like that.

In 2006 we decided that as Pip was approaching her third birthday we would like to mate her and have a litter of Canowindra puppies, she was mated in April and as I had already entered her for the Birmingham National Dog Show, I took her along.  Pip walked into the ring with an attitude which said “hey, look at me” – I’d seen that look before at Driffield, so I let her show herself hoping she might get a third and qualify for Crufts®.  With little or no help from me she got her second championship first.  Since then she has been resting and being a super mum to her litter of puppies by Ch. Bedeway Artful aka known as Dodger (see puppy page).