Bailielands Irish Glen Of Imaal Terriers and Jack Russells
True Irish bred Irish Line Glens and Quirky IKC reg Jacks in the West Of Ireland
Coco Chanel R.I.P.
Poor Coco passed away suddenly in her kennel late last year, a few weeks after a knock from a car. She appeared ok at the time and our vet couldn't find any damage but sadly something was wrong indeed. It was a terrible shock and i still miss her terribly.
CoCo called Misty at home came to us as a grown girl from Wexford.
She was bred by Sean Maguire in Drogheda, out of Shady Mist by Wizard Of Enrale.
Misty is a dear old soul a lovely blue a little soft coated perhaps, that takes more time to groom but she doesn't seem to mind.
She is active and agile and always wants lots of love.
When the time was right, she was mated in 2004 to Wicklow Lad Of Gerrardstown "Fern" owned and bred by Ian Mc Cullloch in Co.Meath.
She is an excellent mother and whelped 8 pups who all survived. Her 2nd mating in 2005 produced 4 exceptional pups who all thrived.
At that time we lived in Co. Louth but moved to Co. Roscommon late that year and were off the Glen scene for a while, but thanks to the wonders of mobile broadband were able to set this site up in June 07.
In the meantime however we have lost contact with many of the owners of our puppies and would love to reestablish contact.
One of Misty's 2nd litter, Bailielands Caoimhe was rehomed to a couple surnamed Baxter, prefix Wyldewyche and qualified for Crufts in 2007.
Big shock, only for wonders of the internet I never would have known she had been rehomed.
Also in Misty's 2nd litter, Bailielands Golden Girl, who we do know the whereabouts of! With the Thames in Roscommon, Golden Girl won best puppy in the Glen class on Paddy's Day Show 2006, well done Freddy and "Brockie"!
Anyone else out there with a Bailielands pup, if we have lost contact, call me! lm.mcneill@gmail.com
Misty's 3rd litter was born 28th June this yr 2008. 6 healthy puppies, 4 females, 2 males. Sired by Mayo's Limited Edition (Setanta)
Shannon of Gerrardstown
Shannon came to live with us in 2005, shortly before the move.
A dear old sweety, she is my favourite girl for a quiet cuddle, safe with other dogs (except for Misty who started the feud...) and livestock she potters about amiably loving a good old roll in the long grass and to bask in the sun.
She has now entered retirement from all duties and is a fulltime housepet.
Shannon sleeps at the foot of our bed at night and during the day accompanies us in the car or about the kennels.
What a good girl she is!
She is a lovely slate blue with very short wee legs and an easily groomed coat.
See www.anbrocairebui.webs.com blog entries to find many more pics of Shannon & Amhain.
Today on the 3rd of July 2009 her body measurements are as follows
Condition Score.. Plump to Fat
Weight 20K
Height at shoulder 13"
Length of Back 17"
Chest circumference just behind elbow 24"
Muzzle length stop to end of nose 3 1/2"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 15 1/2"
Neck circumference just below head 15"
Front paw circumference just below wrist 4 1/2"
PROGENY INFORMATION
She bred a superb litter in 2006 by Bruce, among them Amhain a wheaten bitch.
She has whelped her last litter on June 23 2007. This is her last litter now leaving her free to enjoy her retirement.
Shannon safely delivered 5 puppies, 4 blue/brindle dogs and 1 wheaten bitch. She was hearty and well and birthed the puppies quickly and without any noticeable signs of distress to the babies.
3 blue/brindle dogs and the wheaten bitch survived.
The IKC papers arrived after only 5 days! And the names applied for as listed on this page were granted! Which is a great relief as they already answered to these names...
Many many thanks to the IKC, this application for registration was only recieved by them on 17th August and they issued the certs on 22nd Aug.!! A hundred thanks for helping us out so quickly.
Bart, Hugh, Brendan and Sandy have departed to their new homes.
The babies:
Bailielands Brendan, a large strong effervescent pup with quite a hard coat at this age, a clasic looker with considerable early gameness, living near the Glen itself!
Bailielands Hugh, a large, cobby, strong and gentle pup with a thick abundant coat, gone to Italy!
Bailielands Bart, a smaller cobby perky and very playful pup with a thick abundant coat, living in Ranelagh, Dublin.
Bailielands Sandy, a medium sized cobby gentle and very pretty female pup with a thick reddish wheaten coat, living in Glencree, Co. Wicklow.
Bruce is the sire and Amhain a full sister from last year.
Ballyfoyle Tess
We should have started this page with Tess "Sooty" or she will kill me, in fact she is probably offended we didn't put her page 1st of all.
Sooty of all the Glens is such a softy, but that is my fault for completely spoiling her.
Bred by Tommy Conway in Co. Wicklow, she came to us in 2003 as a bewildered ball of black fluff, howled incessantly every night for a month despite all best efforts to settle her; hot water bottles, ticking clocks, radios, companion pup etc. until I did worst possible thing and took her into bed with me, yes I know, rod for own back etc. But come on a whole month!
Well that set the tone for Sooty's development, so now she is the 2nd child of the family.
She is a typical Ballyfoyle Glen in type, short legged, stocky, big head. A lovely silver blue she is a little soft coated and not the easiest to groom, her coat needs to be kept quite short to be tidy, with length it mats quickly.
Lots of quirks in her personality, she speaks on command, and loves belly rubs obsessively.
Favourite things include very big marrowbones, rolling on her back and going Arrr Arrr Arrrr..., going mad Glen and doing laps of the yard until she has to have a lie down, her Glen Babies, going in the car and wanting lifted over ditches as she doesn't like water.
She was hard to breed and only has 2 pups in her last litter by Bruce surviving out of 4.
These pups we kept after all the hassle getting them here and called them the Glen Babies, Sona and Sraotha, but more of them later.
Sooty is a game dog and has been worked to ground. What we learned from the experience was that although she is very willing she even at 12 1/2" high is too bulky, low slung and awkward to escape punishment underground. Sooty is of typical show build and based on our experiences with Sooty and other typical show build glens and the experiences of others in the same vein, we came to realise the show Glen is not built to work EVEN if he/she wants to.
A male dog of similar height is Wolfie but so much lighter in build that he can strike like a snake.
So we came to see the wisdom of STRONG enough, Big enough, for we have seen that in Glens we all fell into the MORE of a good thing is better mentality, but it is not.
If you cannot work a Glen it is in danger of becoming something else and weirdly an old book i found recently had some lovely black and white photos of working Sealyhams and i thought they were old working Glens!!
Which makes sense because bred for similar purposes there would be certain convergences of build given common quarries!
The difference in appearance between show type and working type Glens is profound, and in a breed only ever bred for work in the past, the heavy, bulky monsters called Glens now would not have been accepted in the past.
Bailielands Cailin Dana
Cailin or Cuddle-een is Bruce's litter sister.
A really lovely girl what a delight to me she is.
As good and gentle as Bruce she is a really nice working type bitch, dark slate blue and hard coated she is active and agile and an eager hunter.
She is happy to follow us around all day or stay up at night on rat and fox patrol around the poultry pens, where she takes up her station and cunningly lies in wait for night raiders.
Mind you if she is on the night patrol we don't expect her to follow us around all day afterwards, she goes to bed!
Cailin is an outdoorsy dog big time, she loves to go down the bogs and check out the trails, and will happily wade through the shucks and streams.
Cailin pictures can be seen in the Gallery, in the dogblog here, and at http://bailielands.blogspot.com/2009/10/cast-cold-eye-on-life-on-death-horseman.html
and at http://bailielands.blogspot.com/2008/08/stailcaire.html
Cailin's body measurements taken today the 3rd of July are as follows..
Condition score..slightly plump
Weight 16K
Height at shoulder 13"
Length of back 16"
Chest circumference just behind elbows 22"
Muzzle length stop to end of nose 3"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 16"
Neck circumference just below head 15"
Front paw circumfrence just above wrist 4 3/4"
PROGENY INFORMATION
Cailin was mated to Feohanagh Tadhg in 2007, a blue bred by the late Christy Hartnett. Tadhg is out of Feohanagh Eiri Na Greine by Mr. Blue. 7 puppies were born on Aug 23rd.
There are lots of pictures of Cailin in the Glen Gallery.
A wonderful event took place on Aug 23rd, Cailin was safely delivered of 7 puppies that night, assisted by Tommy and Bruce!
Cailin would not let us take Bruce away, she was sleeping in her whelping quarters for almost 2 weeks, but went bonkers whenever she was left on her own, without Bruce.
Tommy tells us that Bruce assisted her during the birth by licking her and the babies, and provided assurance and apparently comfort to Cailin during the event, but got chased by her when the birth was complete and she wanted to sleep! Amazing isn't it! Also apparently when Cailin was very uncomfortable in the beginning he acted just like an anxious expectant father by getting quite worried himself, whining and running after her. Pity I missed all this but needed to be looking after mum and Peter that night of course. On talking to a friend who bred hybrid wolves she described the father's active participation in the birth as very similar to Bruce and Cailin's experience. Incredible, dogs are amazing!
One of cailin's pups was born dead, sadly and there was 5 bitches and 1 dog.
Cailin was very well the next morning, in great form, puppies all sucking and she left the bed and went out to the toilet without protest.
By the 6th of Oct the 6 puppies and Cailin were all well. Cailin was heart and full of energy, doing very well, on high protein feed and meat feeds daily. The puppies abandoned the stable then and started lurking in the hay bales outside! Puppies were hearty and strong, now feeding well on soaked Red Mill's Racer in Lamlac, fresh tripe and red meat dusted in bran and wheatgerm. By 6 and 1/2 weeks old they were vaccinated with their first 8 in 1 Procynon shot, microchipped and registration begun.
At 8 weeks, Cailin's milk started to wind down and the pups were very well grown for their age.
The Babies:
Bailielands Lexi, a wheaten female, the biggest, boldest and brightest of the litter, now in Dublin!
Bailileands Athas, a soft coat blue female, very well built, the second biggest and boldest, now in America!
Bailielands Siochan, a hard coat blue male
Bailielands Siamsa, a hard coat blue female, only up the road in Croghan!
Bailielands Croidin,a hard coat blue female.
Bailielands Saoirse, a hard coat blue female, sadly deceased before registration, we have named Sooty's only 2007 pup for her.
Bailielands Dubhcos
Dubhie (pronounced Dovey) or Dubheen (Doveen) is out of Gerrardstown Delight by Bruce.
She was born March 2006 and after being sold on returned to us in May 2007.
We were glad to have her back as her mum was out of Shannon by Knockroe Big Boy.
She is a hardcoated working type Glen with plenty of oomph. Still rangy as her mum was at that age we are still feeding her up plenty as she is a slow developer. Her mum did not muscle up well until 2 and 1/2 yrs and then she was some dog.
She likes to tear about the yard at full speed and does everything at a gallop.
Her coat is beautiful now, well groomed and trimmed, she is a lovely silver blue shot with wheaten hairs.
She is a smallish Glen and an ideal size for a general purposes working glen.
She is active and feisty and inquisitive. She like Wolfie made a good start as a gamey, intense, hard biting dog.
Today on July the 3rd 2009 her body measurements are as follows
Condition score...lean & fit
Weight 13K
Height at shoulder 12 1/2"
Length of back 15"
Chest circumference just behind elbows 20"
Muzzle length 3 1/2"
Skull circumference 14"
Neck circumference just below head 14"
Front paw circumfeence just below wrist 4"
( All measurements taken tightly and checked at least three times for accuracy)
Bailielands Amhain
Amhain ( Aah-waan) was born to Shannon of Gerrardstown (U21083) and Bailielands Bruce (X03051) in June 06 and was always a big girl.
Bailielands Amhain (X64932) dob 4th June 2006.
Her name means The One and she was the only wheaten in a litter where everyone wanted a wheaten bitch and she is mine!
She is a very strong pale straw wheaten with a hard coat. Very soft and affable in temperament she is a total big softy. Very playful and giddy she is a great character and a very good eater, in fact she is fat and was always a fatty.
Pictures in the Glen Gallery show her at 1 yr in June06. A bit wet and muddy, she is, but you can get an idea of substance especially if you compare her to Cailin, and she is just 12 months.
In www.anbrocairebui.webs.com Blog Section you can see far more recent photos of her at 3yrs of age.
Today on the 3rd of July 2009 her body measurements are as follows :
Condition score...slightly plump
Weight 17K
Height at shoulder 13"
Length of back 16 1/2"
Chest circumference just behind elbows 23 1/2"
Muzzle length 3"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 15"
Neck circumference just below head 15"
Front paw circumference just above wrist 4 1/2"
( All measurements taken tightly and three times for accuracy)
Gerrardstown Penny R.I.P.
Dear Penny is also deceased like her brother Wolfie due to cancer, in her case stomach cancer, poor mite.She never bred and was a sweet and rather inoffensive little dog.
Pretty Penny was Wolfie's litter sister out of Roisin's Pride by Knockroe Big Boy. She was rehomed to her breeder from Wales with Gerrardstown Blue Lady (Ruby) who joined us a couple of years later in 2009.
We were glad to have her as we were very pleased to have Wolfie.
She was a tidy little bitch, very light silver blue, very pretty and much more civilised than Wolfie. Sadly i have no photos only memories.
Bailielands Sona and Sraotha
Sona (Sun- ah) and Sraotha (Shh-ray-ha) loosely meaning Happy and Sneezy as Sooty their mum is occasionally called Dopey (sets the tone for any future litters of Sooty, eh?).
In 2009 I rehomed Sraotha to Paddy Navin in Milton Keynes as she was not cut out to be a brood bitch.
She is well settled now with a loving home and large cuddly Glen called Boru to keep her company.
Sona is registered as Bailielands Selina Y43193 born 01 May 2006 out of Ballyfoyle Tess (W32450) by Bailielands Bruce (X03051).
As of the 3rd of July 1009 her body measurements were as follows :
Condition Score..normal
Weight 15K
Height at shoulder 13"
Length of back 16"
Chest circumference just behind elbows 22"
Muzzle length stop to end of nose 3"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 15"
Neck circumference just below head 15"
Front paw circumference just above wrist 4 3/4"
Sandybanks Siobhan
Sandybanks Siobhan (Y18571) is out of Knockroe Earball Fada (X48918) ( Knockroe Spalpeen x Riversdale Rose) by Bailielands Bruce (X03051) and bred by Mrs. Shirley Sweeney, Westport, Co. Mayo. Her dob is 21st May 2008.
She is a tidy little hard coat red wheaten bitch, of good bone and build, with a good temperament.
She resembles her maternal great grandmother Honey lass of Laranville a great deal.
Plenty of recent pictures can be seen of Siobhan & best bud Ziggy in www.anbrocairebui.webs.com
As of the 3rd of July 2009 her body measurements are as follows :
Condition score.. Plump well covered young bitch
Height at shoulder 12"
Length of back 15"
Chest circumference just behind elbows19 1/2"
Muzzle length stop to end of nose 3"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 13"
Neck circumference just below head 13 1/2"
Front paw circumference just above wrist 4"
Congrange Lucy aka Holly
Thanks to the wonder of the e-collar she is now steady to sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, donkeys, cattle and ponies. She cannot return home as she will be shot on sight by the offended farmer. I hope to be able to give her owner a nice blue bitch puppy for her this year.
She is out of Lady Love by Cregane Lad and bred by Mr. David Walsh. She is a biggish wheaten of very old Irish type resembling our Cara (December Dawn) a lot, she has a great temperament and is sporty and active.
December Dawn aka Cara
Cara is back with us recently having been out on working loan for some time.
She is 6 now and is a big strong red wheaten of 14" and very classic old Irish type.
She is out of Ballyfoyle Dawn ( Threetrout Scooby x Kevin's Lass) by Ballyfoyle Finn of Threetrout ( Cregane Broc x Lishmar Rhonda) which makes her Sooty's double cousin but they are completely different !!!!
Bred in Co. Monaghan by Brian Mc Adam.
She is Tommy's favourite and is a seasoned working glen in the prime of her life, she is 6 now.
Many recent pictures can be seen of Cara in the Blog section of www.anbrocairebui.webs.com
Cara had 5 lovely pups, 4 females and 1 male on the 8th of July by Ballyclare Boy ( Max).
One female puppy unreserved at 2 weeks enquiries to Me ! Marie at lm.mcneill@gmail.com
Gerrardstown Blue Lady aka Ruby
Ruby came to me in February 2009 from Ian Mc Culloch.
She is a full sister of Gerrardstown Delight (Knockroe Big Boy x Shannon of Gerrardstown) who is out on working loan again.
She is blue, nicely proportioned and very sporty, but quite hot in temperament as are most of Knockroe Big Boy's offspring and descendants.
Her body measurements today the 3rd of July 2009 are as follows...
Condition score ...fat
Weight 17K
Height at shoulder 13"
Length of back 16"
Chest circumference just behind elbows 23"
Muzzle length 3"
Skull circumference just behind eyes 15"
Neck circumference just below head 14"
Front paw circumference just above wrist 4 3/4"
