As breeders we believe that we are responsible for a dogs entire life, and however well you vet a home things can go wrong and a dog needs to be rehomed, so here is the story of BLUE , a pup sired by our own dog Tangy Tango .
Blue was born on hallowen 2005 along with 6 other litter mates, he was booked by a lady from norfolk to be a family companion to herself , her hubby and 3 children, sadly over the last year the ladys health was failing and Blue came to board with us for a while , in the summer of 2006 a group of friends stayed here with us in tents with dogs in howling gales and horrendous amounts of rain! One of the friends Charlie,brought along her dog Dij, whom was not the most pleasant dog with other hounds, but he met the exhuberant Blue and fell instantly in love and spent most of the weekend playing most happily and relaxed in eachothers company, now fast forward 6 mths and Blues owner was having a very difficult time at home and again Blue came to stay back with us, again Charlie and Dij drove many miles from Birmingham just to spend time together, another success so Charlie enquired about rehoming Blue if the lady decided she really couldnt take him back, a tense 3 weeks passed til word came back and the answer was YES!!!!
So easter weekend we again have the pleasure of seeing Dij and Charlie again but the pain and sorrow of Blue leaving us so many miles away, however we know this is Blues forever home and wish them all the very best for the future! Also it wont be long before we all meet up again .
A pic of the lovers as they are known last visit
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16 th june and 30th june saw the fun running with whippets lurchers and italian greyhounds all have fun behind the lure , this looks like to become the beginnings of a new fun lure club , we are connected strongly with the gery club (link on links page) and total lurcher (also on links page) , so fingers crossed we will be up and running as a club by the end of the year, pictures for here need resizing so will attempt to edit some from both evenys very soon .
Runners cane from birmingham in the shape of dij and blue whom own charlie! lol! Peterborough, with dave carrie leah and their dogs storm , tess , and billy, also kev from ireland and Chris Doyle from lowestoft, with his 2 ped whippets bramble and the ever gorgeous Zorro! also we saw Elaine and hubby mark come with queenie the whippet and fly the lurcher, ann from here with sada and tracey from not far away with jaspa and meg!! the infamous stanley morris also made an appearance!
pics will follow very soon
Oct 07
im very pleased to announce i was asked to write a small article on our whippets and the work in the field they have done pre and post ban, a very proud moment for Highisland Kennels, the book for your reference is The Working Whippet Year Book, Xmas edition, this is compiled by Nigel Wallbank and Jeff Hutchings ( Pennymeadow Whippets) , this follows the success of the first in the series , The Working Whippet Yearbook 2007. Simply a must for anyone with an interest in working whippets and general reference to some of the top names in working whippets.
A link can be found to purchase a copy or visit the Pennymeadow whippets website in the links section
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