Beltra Collies, Corgis and Chihuahuas
Beltra Rocks!!
Introduction
The current showteam
Storm, Lily, Brooklyn and Blondie with their handlers Ashley and Lauren
Welcome to the Beltra website. This will give you a brief history of our dogs and experience and show you some of our dogs past and present. This is a work in progress and hopefully will get more interesting and with a lot more photographs and text in the coming years.
Family commitments have restricted our showing and breeding recently but our daughters Lauren and Ashley have also got the show-bug and have taken an active interest in showing and helping out at shows. Our third daughter Kelly, prefers to stay in the background and play with her two corgis at home although she does make the odd appearance at shows and has handled both chihuahuas and collies successfully.
The current show team consists of a Rough Collie and three Smooth Coat Chihuahuas. The team are:-
Storm (Rough Collie) – Altnareagh Black Dress at Beltra
Lily - Ir. Ch. Amber Tiger Lily at Keenaughts (ShCm)
Blondie - Beltra Blonde Bombshell
Brooklyn - Beltra Brooklyn Babe
Blondie and Brooklyn are out of Lily's first litter which was also Beltra's first S/C litter and we have been very lucky three fantastic pups.
Patsy and Wilma are also campaigning the litter brother to Blondie and Brooklyn, Beltra James Bond and he has just recently become a Junior Irish Champion. The first male in the breed to do so.
Our first S/C Chihuahua Pheobe – Keenaughts Bareleg Bronagh at Beltra bred by Patsy and Wilma McDevitt still rulles the roost at home but she is no longer shown as she was not a fan of the showring.
We also have two Pembroke Corgis, Beltra Buffy and Beltra Angel both bred by ourselves, but unfortunately neither liked the show ring and are content to live a life of luxury at home rather than earning their keep!
Beltra do not breed litters very often and on the few occasions that we have bred our dogs, it is to produce top quality showdogs for ourselves and we very seldom have puppies for sale. Also most of our dogs tend to stay with us for life and any time we have sought homes for our dogs they are usually with people personally recommended to us and able to provide the necessary time, interest and loving homes.
Contact us at marie@beltra.co.uk
